Economic inequality is a persistent challenge for China’s policymaker. Join the panel for an insightful discussion on common prosperity and inequality in China: bit.ly/40fNMby

Some days in Seoul

苦哈哈回家上班

四川江油事件，唯一的启示就是：中国政府的大抑制能力在强化，在迅速的升级迭代。 去年的这类社会事件，中国政府已经能做到在48小时内迅速封锁全城交通，控制网络舆论，调集周边城市警力形成碾压式警力优势。 今天的这类事件，中国政府已经能做到调集周边武警力量（警察力量之外的真军事力量）,同时

Choi (2025) finds strong empirical support for deterrence theory over Steps-to-War theory by showing that alliances significantly reduce the likelihood of war, the most destructive form of conflict. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

境外势力绞尽脑汁不如xx灵机一动

After decades of refusing to choose between the United States and China, many Southeast Asian countries are now drifting toward Beijing, write Yuen Foong Khong and Joseph Chinyong Liow. What explains this shift? foreignaffairs.com/china/southeas…

📢 Join us on 28 August, 6–7pm AEST (in person or online) for a timely talk with Dr Bo Ma, Visiting Fellow at ANU and Associate Professor at Nanjing University and explore China’s growing turn toward minilateral security engagement in Southeast Asia. 📅 Thur, 28 August | 🕕 6PM

Trump’s vision of the world is one of great-power collusion, not great-power competition—one in which China and Russia work with him to manage international order, writes Stacie Goddard. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

3) “What Does China Want?” by Dave Kang, Zenobia Chan, and Jackie S.H. Wong doi.org/10.1162/ISEC.a… This article is ungated thanks to The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social!

Call for participants: If you identify yourself as a Chinese Australian and would like to contribute to raising awareness of Indigenous policies, we invite you to participate in an online focus group. We are desperately looking for participants! Minran Liu China in the World

China flexes military might with new weapons of war rolling down Beijing streets 为中国威胁论添砖加瓦，坏了abc.net.au/news/2025-09-0…

Dark visions of China's alleged bid for global dominance leave out an important detail - how would they get it? lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Merkel recounts her meetings with Xi.

和无政府主义者合作真他妈折磨

1/ I think this thread by Chucheng Feng captures the logic and motive for Beijing's approach to the latest spike in US-China trade war escalation. Both sides are playing a high-stakes game. It's not entirely clear that both sides are playing the same game, though. (short 🧵)

Sharing my Foreign Policy piece with the fantastic 水在瓶 on the People’s Daily series by Zhong Caiwen, which has received surprisingly little English media attention. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/14/chi… First, it’s important to understand the entity behind the pseudonym “Zhong