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The chaos that defined the Trump administration came at a time when the US-China relationship was already entering a particularly unforgiving period. When the Trump administration unexpectedly came to power, US-China relations were at the center of three tectonic trends: the rise of nationalism and popul ism due to the unequal distribution of benefits from globalization; the rise of emerging and foundational technologies that have altered both daily life and the way governments, companies, and people interact; and the fraying of a world order that was built for an era when the United States was the only superpower and the spread of democracy everywhere seemed inevitable. Over the course of Trump’s presidency, awareness inside the US government and around the country steadily grew that China’s rise and the Chinese government’s strategy play into all three of those dynamics. Put simply, a China that is militarily expansionist, economically aggressive, internally repressive, and increasingly interfering in democratic societies poses enormous challenges for the United States along with all of our allies, friends, and partners. The effects are already being seen in our national security, our investments, our industries, our schools, our media, and even our elections.
Chaos Under Heaven
Josh Rogin
In between his own exhausting twice-daily training regimes, Robin recorded the athletes’ pain thresholds before and after their regular morning workout on the rowing machines when training on their own, and then repeated this a week later when they worked out as a crew with the rowing machines linked up as a virtual boat. And then he repeated all this again a week later. In both series, the physical effort produced the expected increase in pain threshold when rowing alone on the machine, indicating endorphin activation due to the stress being placed on their muscles. But rowing in synchrony as a virtual boat doubled this – despite the fact that the rowers were not putting in more effort (as we could tell from the gauges on the rowing machines). Somehow, acting in synchrony ramps up the endorphin effect to much higher levels, though we still have no idea why.
The best way to compensate for the negativity bias is to regularly take in the good.
Hardwiring Happiness
Rick Hanson
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