Michael McFaul ✓
@McFaul · Stanford, California · joined 03 Jan 2012
Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
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Foreign leaders Trump has personally greeted on the tarmac upon their arrival in the US: Vladimir Putin (Alaska, 2025) and Xi Jinping. Red carpets for both.
Have I missed anyone else?
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Extending the Busan agreement and formalizing a structure to discuss AI would be achievements from the Trump-Xi meeting tomorrow.
I hope for more - especially an agreement to release Min Zin— but not expecting more.
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The Communist Party rules China. The government does not. Everyone knows that.
So why is it disrespectful to call Xi the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China? He seems to be proud of the title.
I’m all for engaging Xi. But all these overtures of respect seem to
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Hope all of Trumps chummy treatment of Xi today will produce tangible achievements for Americans tomorrow.
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There's an assumption that Trump represents a permanent shift in US foreign policy.
But the polling tells a different story.
On NATO, Ukraine, Iran, tariffs, and the importance of democratic allies, Trump is out of step with most Americans.
Read more: https://t.co/wXaMziAoOv
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Some thoughts on Trump's address at the UNGA. https://t.co/oZaQMbX8Ey
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Reagan rightly talked about "peace through strength." I agree 100% with that concept.
But there is also "strength through peace." When we act as a country committed to peace, we gain influence worldwide. When we use our military ineffectively, as in Iran, that weakens the US.
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Just watched Trumps speech (while I was on live tv waiting to comment on it). My biggest takeaways:
Trump seemed tired.
The speech was tired. Nothing new.
The audience seemed tired (lots of folks scrolling on their phones)
Seems like everyone is tired of the Trump era?
Seems
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I give Trump credit for his success in getting wrongfully detained Americans out of prisons in autocratic countries. He even freed a friend of mine in Russia. I hope he will have similar success in getting Min Zin home this week when he meets with X. cc: @SylviaMinZin
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I hope the wrongful detention of American citizen Min Zin will be on the agenda for the Trump-Xi meeting.
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As U.S. and Chinese leaders prepare to meet, I hope Min Zin’s wrongful detention will be a priority. He should be home with our daughter, Suu.
#FreeMinZin #WrongfulDetention
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По итогам обработки 52,27% протоколов "Единая Россия" сохраняет конституционное большинство в Госдуме, свидетельствуют данные ЦИК РФ:
https://t.co/128pnSdn1n https://t.co/TrKrx7I1oh
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It interesting how music and memory interact. I can barely remember what I did last week but have a vivid memory of listening to this Zeppelin song in Guangzhou China in 1991 while running there… just as I did today again. https://t.co/tFoyvy0Q45
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Very exciting to see Ronald Wintrobe quoted in the @nytimes ! I used to teach that book for many years. Thanks @PaulSonne.
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This only happened because of our independent media.
We need more independent journalists in the White House not fewer.
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Great interview with @iraterekh here:
The millennial woman building Ukraine's ballistic missile https://t.co/6cI05Bpq9b via @YouTube
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Trumpism doesn't have to define American foreign policy after Trump.
Americans still value alliances. They still support NATO. They sympathize with Ukraine over Russia. They still care about human rights and democracy abroad.
The current trajectory is not immutable:
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Trump claims Don Jr. paid back Russian oligarch who spent hundreds of thousands on his wedding https://t.co/PzfRjMJN4f https://t.co/SNn0T3RutM
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Dude, the fact that you can call your own country a “sh*thole” and “the absolute worst on the planet” without facing any repercussions—and even gain enormous popularity for it—is itself a refutation of your claim.
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Has NATO expansion made Europe safer?
My debate on Foreign Policy's Counterpoint podcast with @EmmaMAshford
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or here: https://t.co/roByLot7Uk https://t.co/TqPiLRbyPF
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The literature on principal-agent problems in economics and political science is vast. There are lessons here for enhancing “alignment” .
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What US national security interest would this decision advance?
I missed the Party of Reagan and Peace Through Strength.
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Against accounts of the same size
98 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views16 000this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.80%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.71%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 16 000 | 5 983 | 2.67× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.80% | 1.49% | 1.21× |
| Engagement rate | 1.71% | 0.93% | 1.84× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.22%21 Sep
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3.09%22 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes77.2%12 935 in total
Reposts11.1%1 860 in total
Replies9.3%1 555 in total
Quotes0.8%128 in total
Bookmarks1.7%284 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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