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Sophia Gaston

@sophgaston.bsky.social
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UK Foreign Policy Lead at ASPI and Visiting Fellow at King's College London Research: Euro-Atlantic & Indo-Pacific security, UK's alliances, China, Russia, AUKUS mail@sophiagaston.com

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Sophia Gaston @sophgaston.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
HMG's inability to speak publicly about the impetus and constraining factors behind this agreement has become simply untenable. I understand there will be further detail once the deal is signed, but the costs of the information vacuum have been extremely high. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
telegraph.co.uk
Chagos deal ‘set to be signed this week’ ahead of Trump’s inauguration
Source claims UK and Mauritius have reached a consensus days before US president-elect returns to power
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Sophia Gaston @sophgaston.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm glad Congress has pushed for this necessary ban of TikTok, but the delays imposed by the Biden administration's review in 2021 and the heel-dragging in Congress has now increased the social and political costs of the ban to a significant degree. All sadly foreseeable.
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