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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is a big deal. Essentially a reversal of the US export control policy on advanced chips. Possibly decisive in the AI race. Compute is our main advantage — China has more power, engineers, and the entire edge layer — so by giving this up we increase the odds the world runs on Chinese AI.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

China is winning the trade war. The Trump team helped them. Per the @wsj.com, the reason China massively escalated in the last 36 hours is because it believes Trump will fold - just as he did on magnets - without reaching for any US leverage in response.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony. I’m told there were injuries from the fall, such as broken legs.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The TikTok deal is looking like a complete surrender by the Trump team. And it may even be illegal. If true, the US will let Beijing determine what appears on the news feeds of 180 million US TikTok users. Not quite America first. Even advisors to the deal are renouncing it!

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🚨 Art of the deal in two WSJ stories showing Trump caving on China policy. ➡️ We unilaterally indicate we’ll remove export controls on the H20 so Beijing can dominate AI, and we seemingly ask for nothing in return. ➡️ On the very same day, Beijing slaps export controls on battery technology.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Important story from Nikkei’s Ken Moriyasu that explains, in part, how Trump police pushed Tokyo to skip NATO, pull down a 2+2, and remain silent on Iran. There is no path to allied scale without Japan. But the relationship is at a low-point now. Sharp reversal from the last four years.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The PRC was obsessed with it for good reason (see below). When I was at the NSC, ONA produced some of the best analysis anywhere in the USG and had enormous and even historic policy impact. No other institution presently can do what it did. Ending it is another unforced error.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment will be celebrated in Beijing & Moscow. This little-known but enormously consequential 50 year-old institution actually thought long-term. It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions in warfare.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“Trust me, bro” is not an argument. Business insiders have used government to make money for literally millennia. Crony capitalism dates back to Ancient Rome. Spare us the moral outrage for being held accountable.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Tired: Rug pull random crypto investors Wired: Rug pull your political supporters Inspired: Rug pull the entire country

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

One day after Trump berates Zelenskyy, Musk calls for the US to leave NATO.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Asahi Shimbun, leading Japanese newspaper, has a sharp take on the “Gulf of America” drama and the decision to ban AP: “What is going on in the White House is foolish beyond belief” H/t @tobiasharris.bsky.social

Excerpt from Asahi Shimbun: The “Shiji,” an ancient Chinese historical text, contains the following episode.
Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.
Some, afraid of Zhao Gao’s power, remained silent. Others played up to him. But there was one man who told the truth as he saw it: “It’s a deer.” He was later put to death by Zhao Gao.
In Japan, there is a theory that this is how the Japanese word “baka” (fool), written with the kanji characters for “horse” and “deer,” originated.
I can only marvel at the perfect parallel between the Qin incident in ancient China and what took place earlier this week in Washington, D.C.
An Associated Press reporter was barred from attending an event in the Oval Office on Feb. 12.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, in disregard of more than four centuries of it being known otherwise.
The White House demanded that the AP comply with this change in its influential Stylebook, but the news agency refused. Hence the shutting out of its reporter from the Oval Office.
Referring to the incident, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable.”
This is utterly beyond belief. The leader of a nation arbitrarily changes the name of something and punishes those who refuse to go along with it. And this has happened in the 21st century United States, of all places.
“The White House cannot dictate how news organizations report the news,” the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association said in a statement.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Scotten served three combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer and earned two Bronze Stars. Clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Disturbing ties between Kash Patel and SHEIN — a PRC company implicated in forced labor in Xinjiang. He has millions in shares and won’t divest. Especially concerning amid reports that DOJ/FBI is going to reduce focus on PRC influence efforts in the US. Full detail below from Roger Sollenberger:

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President Trump’s inauguration? Evidently, yes.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

TikTok had 268 days to sell itself so it wasn’t operated by China. That would have solved everything. But they didn’t even try. China wouldn’t let them. Now, with time short, they want Biden to ignore a bipartisan law SCOTUS upheld 9-0. If they shut down, it’s on them.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

And just like that, another has emerged… @rushdoshi121.bsky.social is falsely claiming to be me.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Friends, please help me report this false account that is impersonating me. It’s @rushdoshl.bsky.social 1) The brilliant handle innovation was to substitute the “i” in Doshi for “I” 2) It’s also reposted all my old posts, which is sort of dispositive evidence of intentional deception.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Actually X is still kinda fun. You can troll anyone there.

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There are apparently loyalty tests for those who seeking to serve in foreign policy, defense, and intel jobs in Trump 2.0. They’re administered by Charlie Kirk, Sergio Gor, and John McEntee: - What did you think of January 6? - Was the 2020 election stolen? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Trump threatens a 100% on BRICS countries if they create or support a dollar alternative. Can’t wait to see the reaction in New Delhi and Brasilia (less interested in Beijing’s reaction, frankly). How’s that for your theory of international political economy?

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Was weird to me that someone as curious as Rogan refused to interview Zelenskyy outright. Glad Lex Fridman didn’t give it a second thought. And that Zelenskyy agreed to do it.

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