Subject: Editors' Picks: How the Pentagon could learn to love Silicon Valley, and how China’s bike-sharing giants fell apart
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EDITORS' PICKS

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12/31/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at a foreign-policy wish list for 2019, how China’s bike-share experiment became a disaster, and how Palmer Luckey, a 26-year-old tech company founder, is looking to change the fraught relationship between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley.

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WISHING AND HOPING: FP’s Stephen M. Walt offers an aspirational look at what the best possible outcomes for next year might look like, and why a more stable Trump White House and a resolution to the conflict in Yemen are unlikely but not completely out of reach.

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CRASHING AND BURNING: China bike-share craze played out like a sped-up version of every tech bubble, an unprofitable idea sustained by fantasy, false predictions, and the power of bigger firms, Frankie Huang writes.

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WORTH THE WORD COUNT: FP’s Sarah Wildman shares five of Foreign Policy’s best long-form stories of 2018, which offer deep dives into issues that shaped Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, South Africa, and China this year.

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CONTRACTS AND CONTROVERSY: Palmer Luckey, the 26-year-old founder of Oculus VR, which he sold to Facebook in a $3 billion dollar deal, is leading the charge to get tech companies and the Defense Department on the same page, FP’s Lara Seligman writes.

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