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Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.

There are three types of China shock discourse. Each has a distinct temporal register. China shock 1.0 was a phrase coined by US academics in the 2010s to retrospectively summarize the impact on particular US labour markets, which they identified through painstaking empirical investigation. China shock 2.0 on everyone’s lips in Europe in the mid 2020s is an alarm raised by trans-Atlantic policy thinkers warning of a coming disaster which they project onto Europe’s ailing car industry. The third type of China shock discourse - commonly known as the “China squeeze” launched most recently by Indian economists Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in the pages of Foreign Affairs - mobilizes a different, more speculative temporal register: the counterfactual realm of alternate history. The China squeeze argument asks not what has happened, or what is going to happen, but what might have been. Specifically, what options for economic development might have been open to Global South economies like India or the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, had it not been for China’s spectacular industrialization since the late 1990s and the persistent competitiveness of China’s manufacture in low-skilled segments. Chatterjee and Subramanian’s argument is that whilst China has built a powerful position in electrical machinery and other high-skill manufacturing, which is now delivering China Shock 2.0, it also continues to run a trade surplus in low-skill, labour-intensive manufacturing. This surplus is large and has remained largely unchanged in fifteen years. Indeed, in the 2010s, in trade with low-income countries, China’s surplus rapidly increased. On their reading, this squeezes low-income producers in low-skill sectors in which they “should” be able to compete. Source: “China’s Mercantilist Squeeze on Developing Countries” Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian. Peterson Institute for International Economics 26-7 May 2026 Chatterjee and Subramanian’s wording is telling: (emphasis mine) The canonical trajectory of economic development in the post-World War II period is for countries to transition from agriculture to manufacturing, first in low-skilled manufacturing and then later on to high-skill manufacturing (Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi 2013). At the global level, this implies that high-income countries (HICs) that once specialized in low-skilled activities cede manufacturing export space to poorer countries that come along to occupy that space. In 1965, advanced economies accounted for about 60 percent of global value-added exports in four key low-skilled manufacturing sectors, i.e., apparel, leather, textiles, and footwear. Over time this share declined and began to be occupied first by the East Asian tigers and, beginning in the late 1990s, by China. Today China accounts for about 50 percent of the global market. The question is whether China, with its rising prosperity, is continuing to behave like its richer counterparts and ceding export space to poorer followers or to behave unlike them and continuing to occupy space. In terms of the conceptual maneuvers it performs, of the three China shock discourses, the “China squeeze” argument is by far the most ambitious. After all, it bases its critique of China on a counterfactual imagining of the world. Like any counterfactual argument, to construct this alternative reality it must rely on a heuristic model. To make their argument Chatterjee and Subramanian mobilize two key claims. The first reference point is the actual history of rich-country industrialization, what they refer to as the “canonical path”. The idea is that countries transition from agriculture to light industry and low-skilled manufacturing and from there up the value chain. To make this useful as a standard of comparison and a means to construct a normative standard, they adjust sectoral export shares for two factors: 1. the underlying level of economic development of the exporting country, as measured by national income and 2. the degree to which the sector in question is internationalized. The idea being that for a high income country to have a high export share in low-skill sectors is anomalous and even more so if that particular product is highly internationalized and thus suitable for being “conceded” to lower-income competitors. Where should this process end? Here Chatterjee and Subramanian introduce their second benchmark. Their normative idea of a global development path is one in which, in due course, low-skill manufacturing exports are distributed in proportion to a country’s share in the global labour force. They imagine, in other words, a world of proportional, polycentric global development without much national specialization in low-skill manufacturing. A useful benchmark is that, in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, a country’s share of world exports should be broadly commensurate with its share of the world’s low-skilled labor endowment. … In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, this would be true if value added per worker and export propensities, i.e., fraction of output that is exported, are the same across countries. It is this pleasant liberal vista of orderly global development, progressing towards a general distribution of low-skilled manufacturing against which they judge reality and conclude that the low-income countries are suffering a “China squeeze”. China is not exiting low-skill sectors fast enough Allowing for its gdp level and the degree of globalization, China’s share of low-skill manufacturing exports is far higher than it “should” be. Relative to population, its low-skill share of exports is far too high. That in turn yields the conclusion that huge numbers of jobs - the authors suggest tens of millions - are being hoarded by China. For the four sectors captured in figure 4, this excess in value-added exports is $110 billion in 2022. For all low-skilled sectors overall captured in appendix figure D.1, excess value-added exports amount to $365 billion. The crowding out of LMIC exports by China is therefore substantial. Both these claims have in common that they are strong structuralisms. The first is that development paths ought to resemble each other. The second is that broadly speaking as far as low-skilled manufacturing is concerned, all countries are alike. If the world currently diverges from the distribution of trade implied by these assumptions, if China is not following the advanced economy path and has huge exports, this must be the result of “policy”, which the authors then put in question as illegitimate or unfair. Thus the naturalistic construction of a canonical path leading to a “level” distribution of low-skilled manufacturing reveals itself to be a polemical tool. From the point of view of China shock polemics, this discourse is no doubt welcome. But as an account of economic history, it must surely be regarded as nothing short of bamboozling. Development paths do not follow a regular, natural sequence. As David Fishman put it aptly, “development is not a queue”. They are always and everywhere, through and through political. Development is not so much a process, as a project. Each such project is more or less well adjusted to its context. As Gerschenkron taught uneven and combined development implies differentiation rather than simple imitation on a single parth. It may be true that Europe and the US exited relatively early from low-skill work. But clearly technology has changed. As C&S themselves point out, China no longer enjoys a low wage environment. Do they really believe that such huge differences can be accounted for either by industrial policy, which as they admit does not operate powerfully in low-skill sectors, or by exchange rate manipulation? What is overwhelmingly dominant in explaining the persistence of “low-skill” manufacturing in China are surely the network effects of complex supply chains. Indeed the label of “low-skill” may miss the point. The degree of globalization which Chatterjee and Subramanian decide to conjure away in their model of the development path - to allow for the fact that Europe and American textiles exporters did not enjoy just-in-time logistics in the 1950s - obscures the point that the networks through which Chinese factories supply the world are themselves key parts of the low-skill industrialization project. China isn’t knocking out 1970s style “cheap”. It has redefined the entire product cycle. C&S’s casual reference to “T-shirts” is telling. In today’s “fast fashion”, there is weight on both terms. Fashion and fast. China’s success in delivering on both at unprecedentedly high speed and at unprecedentedly low cost, isn’t a low-skill operation at all. If we see development trajectories not as the serial repetition of the same, but as distinctive, crafted projects that cumulate in complex agglomerations of skill, technology and labor, then this explains why the assumption that low-skilled manufacturing should follow the distribution of population flies in the face of all experience. As countless cases attest, low-wage, low-income developed economies are not by themselves the makings of a competitive production base. As Leon Liao puts it quite fairly: “International trade has never been allocated according to population. A country’s population gives it no natural claim to an equivalent share of global exports." And the remarkable fact is that Subramanian alone and with co-authors has long been making this point, not to pillory China, as is the case of the tendentious _Foreign Affair_s and Peterson pieces, but to highlight the great counterpart to China’s industrial success, namely India’s relative failure. The much-quoted Foreign Affairs piece showed low-skill export shares only for China, not for India. If you put both countries in the picture as Chaterjee and Subramanian have done on other occasions, the picture looks like this. China is far above the line, but India, almost as large in terms of population, is no less anomalous, just in the opposite direction. As far as global populations are concerned, and the imagining of tens of millions of “squeezed” jobs, it is this Sino-Indian pair that account for a huge share of the action. What this graph reveals is not China’s cheating, but India’s “greatest development failure”, at least this is the argument made Arvind Subramanian, this time in co-authorship with Devesh Kapur, in their major book, A Sixth of Humanity. Independent India’s Development Odyssey which appeared with Oxford University Press earlier this year. In this highly critical work on India’s development, China is repeatedly evoked, not to criticize but as a benchmark against which to illuminate what India’s political economy has not delivered i.e. large-scale formal employment for hundreds of millions of citizens. Kapur and Subramanian leave no doubt, if you want to understand why China, not India was the main driver of manufacturing globalization from the 1980s, don’t look to slots opening up in the division of labour thanks to the liberal mindedness of advanced economies, look to the contrasting political economy of the Maoist PRC and India’s post-independence political economy. As Kapur and Subramian note: The great divergence between China and India did not begin in 1978 with the Deng reforms—it was well underway by then. In one of the great ironies of modern history, the conditions created by Maoism turned out to be a great launching pad for industrial globalization. As the comparison of India and China in 1980 makes clear, to imagine manufacturing would be equally distributed when populations are so differently endowed in terms of educational and nutritional is fanciful. Here is the data from Kapur and Subramanian, data which I explored back at the very beginning of Chartbook. As Kapur and Subramanian insist, the striking fact is that even as India’s growth accelerated from the 1980s, structural change has not. Formal employment in India lags woefully behind. Why? As Kapur and Subramanian note, the path-dependent impact of India’s poor early start was devastating. The list of factors they mention is long and weighty: We argue for a new five-fold explanation applicable at different stages of Indian history: in the initial stages, the legacy of two key pre-1980s policies, the neglect of agriculture and the strangling of the domestic private sector, were critical. The failure of broad-based agricultural growth militated against rural industrialization, which would have been devoted to satisfying local needs that would have necessarily been labour intensive. Then, when the boom came after 1980, the thicket of regulation and broader labour protections that were legislated prematurely in a nascent democracy, underpinned by a deep ideological aversion to private capital in general and big capital specifically, became a barrier to attaining the size that would be necessary to compete globally. Similarly, the reforms after 1991, while wide-ranging, did not quite encompass non-tradeable inputs critical to manufacturing, namely, land, logistics infrastructure and power. A combination of low investment (logistics infrastructure), regulation (land) and the continued monopoly supply by state governments (power), combined with residual socialism, kept costs at 75–100 per cent above efficient supply. These factors were compounded on the supply side by the government, which dominated the formal labour market and established exorbitantly high wages at the lower end of the skill spectrum. This made their employment in the labour-intensive sector by the private sector less attractive. Finally, when the services sector and its exports boomed, wages soared even further via a Dutch Disease effect: one successful tradeable sector killed and cannibalized another less-skilled tradable sector, namely, manufacturing. Thus, scarcity-inducing policies of the planning era, precocious democracy and a Gandhian aversion to size; inefficient, monopolistic supply of critical non-tradable inputs; the behemoth of government; and super-successful skill-intensive services successively undermined India’s unskilled labour employment opportunities. The employment failure seems to have been over-determined. … Less quantifiable but no less important are some of the sociological factors that have undermined manufacturing and factory jobs. Take the impact of the success of the IT sector—located in urban areas with better working conditions, such as air-conditioned offices, good schools for children and attractive entertainment options. It became a more attractive place for engineering and management graduates to flock to. … Consider manufacturing and female employment. Indian society makes it difficult for women to work, reflected in India’s unusually low female labour force participation (elaborated in Chapter XIII). Indian society, in particular the routine harassment of women in public spaces, makes it even more difficult for them to travel long distances to take up work.37 Combined with onerous regulations on creating hostels and dormitories for women—which, in turn, prevents multiple shifts of operation—factories need to be located in areas with a large female labour pool. While firms can take apparel plants to female labour or bring them to the plants by building large-scale dormitories, this raises costs. If there was a case for subsidies to encourage labour-intensive manufacturing, housing subsidies to build dormitories for women workers would be a good place to start. All of this meant, that when opportunities did open up, in part thanks to adjustments in China, India was in no position to take advantage. Here is the account of the 2020s from Kapur and Subramanian. It stands in dizzying contrast to the one-sided, “China squeeze” argument delivered in the Peterson and Foreign Affairs pieces: In 2022, for example, India’s share of global exports in clothing (the canonical labour-intensive sector) was 3.1 per cent compared to 32 per cent for China. This is extremely disappointing because China started vacating export space in this sector after the Global Financial Crisis as its wages started rising; it then vacated further space in the aftermath of geopolitical developments that led investors to seek alternative investment locations. Between its peak and today, China lost about 7.5 percentage points of global export share (worth about $43 billion in 2022); over this period, India’s export share remained stagnant at 3 per cent, while that of Vietnam and Bangladesh rose by 3.5 to 4 percentage points. China’s loss did not translate into any gain for India in terms of low-skill exports and employment. Put differently, when the conditions for dynamism and prosperity were established after 1991, and even more tantalizingly when the global export opportunities opened up, it was as if India was a high-wage economy and only skilled labour could benefit from the dynamism. It had converted its physically abundant unskilled workforce into an economically expensive resource, penalizing its use. It is not my mission here to argue for or against Kapur and Subramanian’s interpretation of India’s development trajectory. The point in this context is simply that the “China squeeze” such as it is can only be understood, in relation to the heavy burden of domestic constraints that Kapur and Subramanian so unsparingly enumerate. I am concentrating here on India because it is the great counterpart to China and the unspoken reference point of the “China squeeze” discourse. But the point is more general. Can anyone with a straight face suggest that the main problems afflicting the development of South Africa or Nigeria, the great centers of mass underemployment in sub-saharan Africa, are cheap competition from China driven by Beijing’s industrial policy and an undervalued RMB? Likewise, is the main problem of the American working-class the threat of Chinese competition or the manifest crisis of social reproduction in the United States itself? The point here, as in the discourse around China shock 2.0 in Europe, is to insist that we should not normalize the world and pathologize China, without actually investigating what is going on in America’s industrial wastelands, the German car industry, or India’s lopsided labour market. One-sided pathologization should be understood for what it is, a polemical gesture. Concepts like China shock and China squeeze are, what Reinhart Koselleck, following Carl Schmitt, would have described as “asymmetrische Kampfbegriffe”, or “asymmetrical counter-concepts” or “asymmetrical combat concepts”. If the function of arguments like the “China squeeze” is to alert elites in the rest of the world of the need to rejuvenate and energize their development projects, so be it. But let us see the resulting discourses as the mobilizing interventions that they are. Interestingly, a significant slice of China’s public sphere - the so-called industrial party - have been obsessed for the last twenty years with precisely these questions of counterfactual economic history. Since the mid 2000s, a massive online discourse developed around an alternative history in which Chinese techno-patriots were asked to imagine how they would proceed if they had the possibility of traveling back in time to transport modern technology into the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) thus averting the “great divergence” of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fantasy of course, but also a goad. The point was not directed at Westerners. The alternate history is dramatically nationalist, but few n the West had even heard of it until recently. The adherents of the industrial party are not liberal moralists. They don’t project natural ladders of international development and ask why others don’t cede space. They take the Realpolitik of global economic development for granted. Their pointe was directed against fellow Chinese. The rallying cry of the alternative narrative was this: Now that we are beginning to gain steam and push forward on our national development path, now that we are breaking out of the inferior position assigned to us even in the early years following WTO accession, do not lose yourself in humanistic imaginings about better futures. In the spirit of Deng, they called on China to embrace the hard truth of development. Perhaps one might of the Industrial Party as a cultural trend born out of desire for symbolic revenge against those who had inflicted the century of humiliation. In terms of the various temporalities of the “China shock” - retrospective, prospective and counterfactual - one might think of the Industrial Policy discourse as truly speculative, conjuring up the China shock that never was. Or perhaps one might better think of it as imagining a world in which a powerful China was no shock at all, but simply a defining fact of modern history. I love putting out Chartbook. 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After Hobbes vs Rousseau: Politics must move beyond human nature

Since the great debate between Hobbes and Rousseau, our political theory has been organised around a single question: is human nature essentially good or essentially corrupt? Graham Harman, the philosopher behind object-oriented ontology, argues that this is simply the wrong question to be asking. The real forces governing our collective fate - climate change, artificial intelligence, geography, and pandemics - are non-human; therefore, questions about human nature are not the central ones. Instead, Harman proposes a politics reorganised around our relationship to non-human objects and environments, in which quasi-government institutions incentivise and deter actions with the aim of extending the survival of the human race. “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” This has become one of the most popular phrases among twenty-first-century intellectuals. Often misattributed to Fredric Jameson, it has been warmly embraced by such influential authors as Slavoj Žižek and the tragically departed Mark Fisher, and has fueled the notion that the major problem with the political Left is that it simply needs to become more speculative and creative. Naturally, this is never a bad idea in any human pursuit. But what if the political distinction between Left, Right, and Center itself results from a failure of imagination? SUGGESTED READING Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil? By Robin Douglass This particular division has been with us only since the summer of 1789. During the simmering prelude to the French Revolution, it referred originally to the physical position in the National Assembly of radical figures on one side and loyal monarchists on the other. These positions are linked with two entirely different camps of modern political theory. On the Left we find a series of authors ranging from the moderate (Locke) to the supercharged (Rousseau) to the truly radical (Marx), all of them contending that exploitation of the many by the few justifies revolutionary overthrow of the existing order. On the Right they are countered by the likes of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Schmitt, a group of thinkers convinced that corrupt human nature can be tamed only by force. In the words of the Nazi supporter Schmitt: “One could test all theories of nature and state and political ideas according to their anthropology and classify these as to whether they consciously or unconsciously presuppose [humans] to be by nature evil or by nature good.” This is the division we continue to face today, even in the daily retail politics of Western democracies.___Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims.___The most refreshing feature of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s 2021 book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity was their awareness that the forced choice between Rousseau and Hobbes (as they put it) is no longer sufficient. Our species has regularly proven itself capable of both the noblest gestures and the most scathing cruelties, making it hard to define us as essentially either emancipatory or brutal in our aims. Far from being stationed “beyond good and evil,” we seem to be fully entangled with both. We are not naturally good or evil, Graeber and Wengrow contend, but naturally experimental and imaginative. They rest their case on the archaeological record, which seems to bear witness to numerous episodes of seasonally shifting governments and festivals, which vacillate in the same society (even in the same year) between the egalitarian and the dictatorial. Such praise of political experiment makes a good fit with the generally anarchist position defended by these authors. Yet it is also what I find most disappointing in their position. Although they are right that the forced choice between Hobbes and Rousseau falls short of what our new situation requires, the authors simply replace it with praise for the human being as a political tinkerer and performer. In other words, they give us just another theory of human nature, one that would not have been out of place in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. What other options might we have?___The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature… We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them___One fresh approach would be to treat politics within a broader framework than human nature, given that the polis does not exist in a vacuum filled exclusively with people. When Bruno Latour went to observe the baboons of Kenya with the San Diego anthropologist Shirley Strum, they jointly concluded that these primates were more socially interdependent than our own species. Each baboon is so reliant on the dynamics of the group that they find themselves locked into constant surveillance of their potentially dangerous peers. The group structure turns out to be inherently volatile. Humans, by contrast, are able to stabilize their societies to a large degree through the mediation of inanimate objects. Although one’s position in society may seem to fluctuate over time, considerable stability is produced through such items as apartment keys, wedding rings, and identification cards, all of them serving to secure us a place distinct from that of our fellows. The Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris has written at length about the crucial role of documents in establishing social relations, making him a hero among notaries in his country. Proper names and license plates cement our position amidst other humans, as do symbolic achievements such as graduation from a top university or distinguished wartime service with its various medals and ribbons. None of this is found among baboons, despite their closeness to us on the evolutionary tree: after all, we did share a common ancestor just 25 to 30 million years ago. SUGGESTED VIEWING The goodness paradox With Richard Wrangham The time is ripe for a retheorization of politics on the basis of something other than human nature, whether understood in the manner of the Left or of the Right. We are not just alienated and limited by objects, but also empowered and unleashed by them. But initially, it is true, we face non-human things primarily in the form of constraints. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to form a human civilization underwater, deep underground, atop Mount Everest, or in outer space. Human dependence on the non-social background takes on subtler form in discussions of political geography, especially unloved on the more idealistic Left. Consider the luckless position of Poland during World War II, sandwiched between Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other. By contrast, note the good fortune of the United States in not having a military peer positioned on any land border. Anglo-American geopolitics, since the writings of the American naval commander Alfred Thayer Mahan and the British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder, has been wedded to the notion that one or more liberal offshore naval powers should prevent any authoritarian “heartland” regime from gaining effective control of Eurasia. That remains the case whether the opponent is the impatient Napoleon, the swashbuckling German Kaiser, the villainous Hitler, the murderous Stalin, or the industrial juggernaut Chinese. In their current Foreign Affairs article “Heartland vs. Rimland,” Michael Beckley and Hal Brands analyze the current and coming state of the world on the basis of these same rather durable principles. In recent years a similar outlook has been embraced, in inverted form, by the Putin-loving Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, an icon of the Rightist intellectual underworld. For Dugin, the Anglo-Saxons are an evil force bent on destroying the spiritually superior people of the land: much like Athens in its failed war with Sparta, or Carthage in its eventual collapse against Rome. But the shared notion on both sides is that any strategy that fails to take geography into account is likely to end up as a defeated form of excessive optimism.___When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole.___More striking for us today than geography is the non-human object called climate, which threatens rimland and heartland equally. Even if we contend that humans are one hundred percent responsible for triggering the climate crisis, it remains non-human in the sense of being an independent force beyond our effective control. In a major work published just before his death in 2002, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, the American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould noted the tendency of evolutionary theorists to focus too closely on the fate of individuals in view of their successful or failed adaptation to circumstances. With climate change, however, we confront a force that goes well beyond the scope of any individual life. Whereas Richard Dawkins extended evolutionary questions downward from individuals to the sub-individual gene, Gould pushed it upward, speaking of entire species or clades as impacted by environmental change. The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago is only the most famous example of this sort. In the wake of that catastrophe, large animals needing abundant supplies of food were at a fatal disadvantage by contrast with the smaller birds and mammals of the planet. When dealing with environmental degradation, then, we are doing business with forces that promise dire effects on our species as a whole. The effect is to shift our attention away from individual beings towards the survival of the group.In the United States in particular, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked considerable backlash among those who asserted a nearly absolute degree of individual freedom. In California I encountered those who demanded that their businesses be allowed to reopen, that it was enough to cover their mouths but not their noses, or that they should have the right to enter any public area despite refusing vaccination. Yet public health is probably the clearest argument against libertarianism, which often merely asserts the autonomy of individuals against any claims of the commons. In normal times the individual is worth defending; under conditions that threaten the survival of part or all of our species, compulsion may be our only resort, as with perfectly reasonable blackouts and rations in wartime. To rebuild human society under the constraints of climate change will be one of the great challenges of the century to come, as will our improvised grappling with artificial intelligence. Such phenomena pose existential risks for humanity, and leave far less room for tolerance of individual brattiness. Cases are mounting of devastating wildfires caused by arson. Recently it was reported that there is even a website where one can bet on the location of coming wildfires, raising the specter of deliberate blazes set to collect on wagers. The death penalty has steadily lost support in a world where many stress the infinite value of human life. But if we focus instead on entire ecosystems, those who purposely burn the forests may begin to look worse than serial murderers.___The politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere.___So far I have spoken of force, authority, and punishment: measures sure to have greater appeal to those who identify with what we know as the Right. But other implications of the post-anthropocentric world are likely to have different backers. If non-human objects are seen as structuring political space, it stands to reason that they can no longer be introduced solely by the pace of technical breakthrough. Fields ranging from cybernetics to energy will demand increased politicization once they are reconceived not just as products of individual human investment, but as renovations of collective political geography. This need not involve world government, with its inherent risk of tyranny, but may involve quasi-governmental enforcers of prestige along the lines of a less corrupt FIFA or International Olympic Committee, punishing deviant states not with violence but with less tangible incentives.Politics will never lose its historic links with conflict and faction. But rather than factions aligned by differing theories of human nature, the politics of the future may be splintered by disagreement over such topics as how to manage our environing background and how to permit or restrict the entry of new objects into the political sphere. This will prove just as incommensurable with the modern Left/Right spectrum as a globe is with a two-dimensional map.

Jul 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • iai.tv

Strong quake hits Japan's production hub, disrupts business operations

A powerful earthquake centred on Kumamoto in southwestern Japan on Tuesday forced a growing number of manufacturers, retailers and service providers to suspend operations across the region, disrupting supply chains in one of the ​country's key production hubs.

Jul 29 • 2:45 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

More than 700 cyclosporiasis cases reported in North Carolina: health officials

WLOS News 13 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Asheville, NC and nearby towns and communities in Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina, including the counties of Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford, Haywood, Polk, Transylvania, McDowell, Mitchell, Madison, Yancey, Jackson, Swain, Macon, Graham, Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson, Union, Pickens, Oconee, Laurens, Greenwood, Abbeville and also Biltmore Forest, Woodfin, Leicester, Black Mountain, Montreat, Arden, Weaverville, Hendersonville, Etowah, Flat Rock, Mills River, Waynesville, Maggie Valley, Canton, Clyde, Franklin, Cullowhee, Sylva, Cherokee, Marion, Old Fort, Forest City, Lake Lure, Bat Cave, Spindale, Spruce Pine, Bakersville, Burnsville, Tryon, Columbus, Marshall, Mars Hill, Brevard, Bryson City, Cashiers, Greer, Landrum, Clemson, Gaffney, and Easley.

Jul 28 • 5:46 PM EDT • Health • wlos.com

Knox Community Hospital signs non-binding letter of intent to join Kettering Health

MOUNT VERNON – Knox Community Hospital announced today it has signed a non binding letter of intent to join Kettering Health, a non-profit healthcare system in western Ohio. The agreement begins the next phase of a process focused on strengthening local access to care and investing in Knox Community Hospital’s future. “Throughout this evaluation, our […]

Jul 28 • 11:17 AM EDT • Health • knoxpages.com

National Youth Science Camp welcomes 2026 class of delegates in Parsons

Free three-week STEAM program draws students from nearly all 50 states and eight Western Hemisphere nations to Camp Horseshoe.

Jul 27 • 4:55 PM EDT • Science • wdtv.com

Western companies are looking to learn from the Ukrainian firms

Western defense firms are building gear with Ukrainian ones to combine their own expertise with what Ukraine is learning from being in the fight.

Jul 27 • 8:42 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

To negotiate with Iran, understand it first

Western countries assume Iran’s actions are aimed at them. But something else is going on.

Jul 24 • 7:15 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Benson Boone, RockyGrass, the science behind ‘Project Hail Mary’ and more things to do in Denver

Plus Cheyenne Frontier Days wraps up with concerts, professional rodeo, a carnival and plenty of Western culture

Jul 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • denverpost.com

Olympic Mountain Glory

Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.

Jul 23 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

Meet the Western states making the case that money isn't political speech

Who should have more power — the people or corporations? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former.

Jul 22 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com

McCains Support Goldfarb Center, Invest in Music Business Students

Western Illinois University alumna and former Music faculty member Claudia McCain was able to experience a breathtaking moment when the highly anticipated Western Illinois University College of Fine Arts and Communications (COFAC) Recital Hall opened in the early 2000s. Now, she and her husband, Jim, will soon experience something similar when the Goldfarb Center for the Performing Arts opens this fall.

Jul 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • wiu.edu

Canine Science Is Biased Toward the Western World

A new study addresses how studies on domestic dogs tend to focus on a Westernized subset.

Jul 21 • 6:10 PM EDT • Science • newswise.com

Future Healthcare Professionals Explore Careers at Health Careers Institute

Illinois high school students learn alongside MWU student mentors on the Downers Grove Campus

Jul 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • midwestern.edu

China’s rise shifts the global political vibe

China’s rise is driving a deeper shift in which Western emotional authority is fading and alternative visions for the international order are becoming increasingly possible.

Jul 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • eastasiaforum.org

Northwestern Mutual annual meeting comes as economic anxiety continues

Some 11,000 people are in Milwaukee for the Northwestern Mutual annual meeting amid economic uncertainty.

Jul 20 • 6:01 AM EDT • Business • jsonline.com

Grading Northwestern Alumni in the Summer League

A Summer League splattered with purple and white.

Jul 19 • 1:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Iraq signs deals with Western oil firms, including to revive Syria pipeline

Jul 17 • 6:19 PM EDT • Business • aljazeera.com

51 suspected illegal slot machines seized in Columbus investigation

State investigators seized or disabled 51 suspected illegal slot machines during searches in Columbus and Westerville, officials said.

Jul 17 • 1:31 PM EDT • Business • dispatch.com

Champions to advance public health - Center Times Plus, UT Southwestern

The Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health recognized outstanding individuals whose work is making a meaningful difference. Honored for their achievements in service, scholarship, innovation, and leadership, these changemakers represent the next generation. Learn more about their goals, passions, and visions for the future of public health.

Jul 16 • 8:10 PM EDT • Health • utsouthwestern.edu

New spinning drone hides in plain sight: 'Phantom Twist' harnesses motion blur to nearly vanish in flight

By exploiting the quirks of human vision, Northwestern University engineers have designed a drone that nearly disappears before the eyes. For years, researchers have tried to design invisible drones and ...

Jul 16 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • techxplore.com

College football player lost scholarship after stepping away from team to deal with mom’s death

Former Western Kentucky DL Victory Vaka left the team temporarily following his mom's death. Now his career could be over.

Jul 16 • 9:13 AM EDT • Sports • al.com

Science Museum Oklahoma hosts adults-only SMO21+ rodeo night in Oklahoma City

Science Museum Oklahoma invites adults 21+ to smo21+ rodeo night with western-themed science activities and cocktails in Oklahoma City.

Jul 15 • 5:21 PM EDT • Science • journalrecord.com

Tribal partnerships anchor the 104th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market

The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts has announced its tribal partnerships and sponsor programming for the 104th annual Santa Fe Indian Market.

Jul 15 • 9:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • cherokeephoenix.org

As Western wear booms, one Fremont Street shop shows off old-school bootmaking

Javier Martell, the owner of Old Country Boots, is among the few remaining bootmakers in the United States.

Jul 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • reviewjournal.com

Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S.

A ridge of high pressure fueled record-breaking temperatures in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming on July 12, 2026.

Jul 15 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

What's behind a boom in the Western boot business?

There's a joke about how you can spot tourists in Nashville: They’re the ones in new cowboy boots, even in the heat. In truth, it’s not just out-of-towners, as the global market for Western boots is growing quickly.

Jul 14 • 5:32 AM EDT • Business • wpln.org

NC Rep. Chuck Edwards sells McDonald’s business to focus on public service

According to Congressman Edwards, selling the business is a natural next step as his responsibilities representing western North Carolina continue to grow.

Jul 13 • 1:31 PM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com

Rural Passport Program supports small businesses in Western Iowa

The Rural Passport Program encourages visitors to explore Western Iowa’s small businesses by collecting stamps for prizes while supporting local shops and restaurants.

Jul 12 • 11:25 PM EDT • Business • kcci.com

Black Men’s Mental Health Conference hopes to address barriers for better outcomes

The conference runs until 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11 at Western Middle School for the Arts (2201 W. Main St.).

Jul 11 • 12:13 PM EDT • Health • wave3.com

Basketball standout Carr signs with Western Oklahoma

Richardson High School standout and Cherokee Nation citizen Ma'Kayla Carr recently signed to continue her basketball career at Western Oklahoma State College, closing a four-year run that included two Texas

Jul 9 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • cherokeephoenix.org

Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as UK health service urges children and elderly to ‘take weather seriously’

Some stations in Spain recorded temperatures of up to 44C after western Europe experienced the warmest June on record

Jul 9 • 4:10 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com

Western Nevada College students engage in science research, bring education to life

While many college students spend summer break away from campus, a dedicated group of Western Nevada College student researchers devoted a month advancing biomedical science through paid research experiences as […]

Jul 8 • 4:39 PM EDT • Science • carsonnow.org

Western N.Y. GOP lawmakers point to bail reform amid rise in violence

Lawmakers and candidates are speaking out after a Fourth of July weekend in which 11 people were shot in six separate shootings in Buffalo.

Jul 8 • 12:24 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

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Jul 7 • 4:11 PM EDT • Business • wiu.edu

Northwestern summer program helps high school students REACH for science and art education

In just three weeks, a Northwestern summer program introduces high school students to astronomy, art and coding. The Research Experiences in Astronomy at CIERA for High School Students program trains students to become modern researchers, teaching them how to code and analyze data, according to REACH director James Schottelkotte. The program is running two three-week...

Jul 6 • 5:45 AM EDT • Science • dailynorthwestern.com

Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness

Recent public comments made about AI suggest that Americans have difficulty with the implications of linear time. This is odd given that its conception is largely Western and is centered on the clock time used to coordinate capitalist employment. The conceptual difficulty regards sequencing, or plans for future actions. But it also involves the distribution of profits. 100% of the capital equipment used in Western economic production was produced by workers. So, why does the resulting product belong to financiers rather than those who produced it?

Jul 6 • 2:00 AM EDT • Technology • counterpunch.org

Western Town Library plans free July programs

Western Town Library will host free July events including a magic show, Oneida Carry history presentation and the Utica ZooMobile.

Jul 5 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com

Happy Independence Day Dawg Sports!

It’s July 4th, the day we celebrate one of history’s earliest and most impactful conference realignments. The decision by our founding fathers that the British Empire’s revenue sharing model just wasn’t for them, and became the Notre Dame of the Western Hemisphere, geopolitically speaking. Their fateful decision saved us from a number of indignities, such […]

Jul 4 • 8:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ukraine's defense industry edge is tests in days, not months or years

Ukraine's defense companies are iterating much faster than their Western counterparts typically can because they can test their systems more easily.

Jul 4 • 7:30 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

This toad exists only in Canada—and scientists have finally discovered why

Scientists have identified something that may be even more uniquely Canadian than the beaver or moose: a genetically distinct western toad population found only in Canada. The discovery, made by researchers from the University of Ottawa, points to a rare and previously unrecognized group of toads living in the Canadian Rockies and raises fresh questions about conservation, biodiversity, and how much wildlife still remains to be fully understood.

Jul 4 • 5:48 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Learn to Fresco Paint with the Science Museum of Western Virginia

7@four learns to Fresco Paint with Play-Doh.

Jul 3 • 4:40 PM EDT • Science • wdbj7.com

Iran exploring oil sales to Japan, buyers seek longer sanctions waiver, sources

Iran has begun talks to sell ​oil to Japanese companies, though prospective buyers ‌are seeking a longer U.S. sanctions waiver and reassurances on safe shipping conditions in the ​Gulf, three Iranian and Western sources ​said.

Jul 3 • 8:08 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com

Tricorn hats or Trump rally? Americans have July Fourth options

The United States is celebrating a jubilee – July 4th is the 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial, of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document for western democracy.

Jul 3 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Western Wisconsin health clinic in lockdown amid 'active situation'

A health clinic in western Wisconsin is in lockdown Thursday afternoon as law enforcement responds to an "active situation."

Jul 2 • 4:32 PM EDT • Health • kstp.com

4 health care groups compete for 92 acute care beds in western North Carolina

Four health care providers in western North Carolina have filed applications with the state's Department of Health and Human Services to add acute care beds.

Jul 2 • 2:46 PM EDT • Health • wlos.com

Augusta Popeyes briefly closed for health code violations

The restaurant, which opened in May on Western Avenue, was permitted to reopen on Saturday after it was closed a day earlier.

Jul 1 • 5:12 PM EDT • Health • centralmaine.com

Putting the Science in Science-Fiction: Midwestern Hosts Booth at Phoenix Fan Fusion

Students, faculty, and staff taught anatomy of predators and prey, debunked creatures from cinema, and ignited passion for scientific inquiry

Jul 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • midwestern.edu

Western Pa. nurse accused in lawsuit of causing 2 patient deaths, stealing drugs

A federal lawsuit accuses Heritage Valley Health System and staff members of enabling alleged crimes by emergency department nurse Nolan Chismire, including drug theft, false insurance claims, and failures in patient care allegedly linked to two deaths.

Jun 30 • 5:22 PM EDT • Health • wtae.com

Guns Of Eschaton Is A Western Soulslike FPS Envisioned By The Late Artist Of Half-Life 2 And Dishonored

The late Victor Antonov envisioned this occult spin on 19th century America.

Jun 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gameinformer.com

Meet a PhD student selected for a national Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship | CWRU Newsroom

Jenna Jaklich is nearly three years away from completing her PhD program in materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, but...

Jun 30 • 6:41 AM EDT • Science • case.edu

Olivia Wilde says Walton Goggins 'saved my life' after horse accident

Olivia Wilde recalled the moment her "Cowboys & Aliens" costar Walton Goggins "saved my life" after a horse accident on the set of the 2011 sci-fi Western. "I've ridden horses

Jun 29 • 7:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

The Entertainment Community Fund Reveals New Board of Trustees Appointments and Leadership Additions

The Entertainment Community Fund, formerly The Actors Fund, has revealed four new Board members, including one returning member, as well as new appointments to its Western Council and the Actors Fund Home Board of Trustees.

Jun 29 • 12:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • broadwayworld.com

Third Coast Foundry opens San Francisco hub for Midwest startups

UChicago, Illinois and Northwestern have opened the Third Coast Foundry in San Francisco to help Midwest startups reach Silicon Valley investors.

Jun 29 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

How Penn State Beaver is helping farmers respond sooner to animal health challenges

Penn State Beaver is helping strengthen animal health and agricultural resilience across western Pennsylvania through the Keystone Animal Diagnostic Center, which gives farmers and veterinarians closer access to critical and timely testing.

Jun 29 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • psu.edu

Rural Fosston moves forward in its quest to relinquish control of local hospital from Essentia Health

A northwestern Minnesota community is seeking to regain local control of its hospital, arguing Essentia Health has failed to meet local health care needs. A recent court ruling allows Fosston to take its case to arbitration.

Jun 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • mprnews.org

Morris rides into orange and purple western town with unfinished business

In the '“Wild West” phase of college football, returning offensive coordinator Chad Morris is making a new mark at Clemson.

Jun 29 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • postandcourier.com

BUSINESS BRIEFS June 29, 2026: Business news in the Berkshires and beyond

Business news from Christine Bilé, BFAIR, UCP of Western Massachusetts, Lipton Energy, BCC, and more.

Jun 29 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • theberkshireedge.com

Aligning patient and planetary health: planetary health diet adherence and inflammatory bowel disease prognosis across Western and Eastern cohorts

npj Science of Food - Aligning patient and planetary health: planetary health diet adherence and inflammatory bowel disease prognosis across Western and Eastern cohorts

Jun 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com

From global politics to legendary performances: 110 years of Western Herald

June 28, 2026 marks the 110th birthday of Western Herald, celebrating over a century of journalism and dedication to delivering news to campus.

Jun 28 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • westernherald.com

Sabres select defenseman Daxon Rudolph in first round of NHL draft

Rudolph played in 68 games with the Prince Albert Raiders of the Western Hockey League last season, scoring 78 points.

Jun 26 • 7:56 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

This Week's 10 Must-Read Stories on Women in Politics: Title IX Anniversary, AI's Anti-Women Bias and Ranked-Choice Voting Victories

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a weekly compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment! Published every Friday. —This week marked the 54th anniversary of Title IX. —As the Taliban approaches the five-year mark of its return to power this August, a rare protest in western Afghanistan last week laid bare both the brutality of its rule and the resilience of those living under it. —A woman will replace Eric Swalwell in California … but for not two more months. —A study of 133 AI systems found that 44 percent demonstrated gender bias, and more than a quarter showed both gender and racial bias. ... and more.

Jun 26 • 6:02 PM EDT • Politics • msmagazine.com

Sports Intelligence Project explores high-end decision making in multifaceted industry

A new co-curricular offering tasks students with combining data, AI and the human element of athletics.

Jun 26 • 2:30 PM EDT • Sports • kellogg.northwestern.edu

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Jun 25 • 1:46 PM EDT • Science • wiu.edu

Extreme heat and health: Policy guide reveals what communities need to know

Blistering temperatures exacerbated by high humidity are not just uncomfortable but dangerous. Across Canada, and in communities throughout southwestern Ontario, rising temperatures are affecting people's ...

Jun 25 • 12:20 PM EDT • Health • phys.org

Louisville doctor, nurse and nonprofit founder charged in federal health care fraud crackdown

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Kentucky announced charges in four separate cases involving alleged schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, misuse medical credentials and controlled substances, and submit

Jun 24 • 10:30 PM EDT • Health • wdrb.com

Smoky skies prompt health advisories in Colorado’s mountains as wildfires balloon across the West

A haze from out-of-state wildfires is choking the Colorado mountains as widespread drought and persistent hot, dry weather continue to elevate the fire danger. The smoke wafting across the Western Slope is primarily from three...

Jun 24 • 5:41 PM EDT • Health • summitdaily.com

Master’s Program Revamped to Address Informatics Needs

The Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics program — previously known as the Master of Science in Health and Biomedical Informatics — will launch in the fall offering two tracks: one in bioinformatics and another in health informatics.

Jun 23 • 12:12 PM EDT • Science • news.feinberg.northwestern.edu

With a CEO from New Orleans, this national Western wear brand is coming to Magazine Street

The New Orleans location will be the brand's second storefront in Louisiana.

Jun 23 • 11:30 AM EDT • Business • nola.com

Pisgah Health Foundation opens 2026 grant cycle with $250K for 3 counties

Nonprofit organizations working to improve health and well-being across three Western North Carolina counties will soon be able to apply for new funding.

Jun 23 • 9:19 AM EDT • Health • wlos.com

App State Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars aim to boost Western NC cybersecurity, trades workforce

From securing small businesses against cyberthreats to building a resilient workforce, App State’s 2026 Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars awards are funding two vital faculty-led projects to support the skilled building trades in Western North Carolina and launch a cybersecurity clinic in Hickory.

Jun 23 • 6:11 AM EDT • Business • today.appstate.edu

Opinion | The I Ching, Leibniz and AI: how old China-West links shaped modern science

The connection between Chinese civilisation and Western scientific thinking is far deeper and more intricate than commonly understood.

Jun 22 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • scmp.com

Why the forces that felled Keir Starmer threaten so many western leaders

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was felled by a curse haunting most western leaders — a failure to deliver change to voters who’ve lost trust in the capacity of modern politics to make their lives better and more affordable.

Jun 22 • 7:38 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Baptist Health opens SilverLeaf outpatient medical campus to serve growing St. Johns County

Baptist Health is opening a new outpatient medical campus on Tuesday in the SilverLeaf community to expand access to primary and specialty care as western St. Johns County grows.

Jun 22 • 12:04 PM EDT • Health • news4jax.com

Baystate Health and Oracle Health Expand Strategic Collaboration to Create a Connected and Patient-Centered Care Experience

/PRNewswire/ -- Baystate Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health system in western Massachusetts, is expanding its strategic relationship with Oracle...

Jun 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

Nie Huihua on the non-Westernness of Chinese government and the challenge to innovation

Jun 21 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • scmp.com

'House of the Dragon' Season 3 family tree: How the Targaryens, Velaryons, and Hightowers connect

Here's your refresher on Westeros' most incestuous family.

Jun 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

New steps lead to a major renovation on the Ligonier home tour

Moving to Western Pennsylvania from Boca Raton, Fla., Matt and Ruth Redmond wanted a century-old house that needed a major rehab, and they knew exactly...

Jun 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Technology • post-gazette.com

Vidler’s celebrates 96 years of business

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Western New York staple celebrated 96 years in business Saturday — Vidler’s variety store is nearing the century mark of serving East Aurora and visitors …

Jun 21 • 12:10 AM EDT • Business • wivb.com