We apologize for technological difficulties blowing our mind.

Your humble blogger has spent the last 48 hours trying to follow up on his last Chen Guangcheng post.  Unfortunately, a recurrent cycle emerged that has caused some serious delays:  STEP 1:  Development in Chen case STEP 2:  Me cogitating on development STEP 3:  Brilliant insights that will transform the Sino-American relationship emerge from blog ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

Your humble blogger has spent the last 48 hours trying to follow up on his last Chen Guangcheng post.  Unfortunately, a recurrent cycle emerged that has caused some serious delays: 

Your humble blogger has spent the last 48 hours trying to follow up on his last Chen Guangcheng post.  Unfortunately, a recurrent cycle emerged that has caused some serious delays: 

STEP 1:  Development in Chen case

STEP 2:  Me cogitating on development

STEP 3:  Brilliant insights that will transform the Sino-American relationship emerge from blog brain. 

STEP 4:  Start writing blog post

STEP 5:  Check Twitter feed five minutes later

STEP 6:  New development in Chen case that renders prior insights totally overtaken by events. 

STEP 7:  Trash draft of blog post… go back to Step 1.

Seriously, I think I get web 2.0 stuff pretty well, and I have never dealt with an ongoing policy issue that mutated faster than I could blog about it. 

I think the latest developments have stabilized matters a bit, so I promise a follow-up blog post in the next hour.  We apologize for the inconvenience. 

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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