🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, LeftWord Books is so happy to be publishing the English translation of Wildan Sena Utama's Vision for the Future: An Intellectual History of the 1955 Bandung Conference (originally from Marjin Kiri in Indonesian).

Introducing Epi-PHR, the first non-disruptive, high-genomic-resolution, image-based epigenetic profiling method. Allelic Epi-PHR generates the first single-cell phased examination of histone mark deposition and 3D genome architecture at an imprinted locus by any technique. 1/8

"This translation is a major contribution not only to the history of Central Eurasia, but to Islamic political thought and cultural history more broadly."-Kaveh L. Hemmat, Inner Asia. buff.ly/o2zcahe @erictschluessel #Uyghur #China #CentralAsia #History #Islamic #Xinjiang

From Rao Yi 饶毅, one of China’s most famous returnee scientists who gave up his US passport in 2009. He bravely advocated for science reform and called out corruption in China’s grant system. Full interview: nature.com/articles/d4158…

The World Economic Forum's "Annual Meeting of the New Champions" wrapped yesterday in Tianjin. I contributed three longish pieces—on how China got rich (a potted history of the last 50 years), on why Chinese AI should have been no surprise, and on Made in China 2.0. Links below.

The big story is not just China’s shift to renewable energy but its rapid progress in electrification, which is a strategic priority for China’s central government. Ember

Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed Mary Brazelton, Rachel Core, Fang Xiaoping & Yi-Tang Lin’s monographs; and identified themes in global health histories. University of California Press (is on Bluesky) online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article-a…

An Industrial Policy With American Characteristics | Foreign Affairs - by ⁦李其 Lizzi⁩ and Damian Ma. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Nature. It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination nature.com/articles/d4158…

Foxconn has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Wrote a new piece for The BREAK–DOWN on how the Second Cold War is shaping the future climate and energy transition, including in developing countries break-down.org/post/a-green-c… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Second Cold War Observatory a few quotes in the thread below: 1/6

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the New Left Review is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/a…

sharing my piece in SCMP where I unpack China’s “consumption problem.” scmp.com/opinion/china-… My argument: it’s actually three problems in one and only one of them has a near-term fix. And that’s why Beijing’s policy this year will look less like demand support / stimulus and

Many interesting developments: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… - BYD Mexico plant shelved due to “geopolitical issues” - BYD will expand abroad more cautiously after labor rights investigation in Brazil - BYD Brazil plant starts production with knockdown kits from China, asks for tariff

Many American public universities are quietly suffering, shrinking curriculum, going through chronic budget cuts, hiring freeze, though their slow decline do not grab headlines like Harvard.

Now that the budget bill has passed Congress, we can see what the projections look like for deficits, government debt, and debt service expenses. In brief, the bill is expected to lead to spending of about $7 trillion a year with inflows of about $5 trillion a year, so the debt,

This is an indispensable paper. It shows how protection of intellectual property is driving intense concentration of corporate wealth and power, exacerbating global inequality.

🚨 NEW PAPER: Jason Hickel and I have developed a progressive framework for green industrial policy. It's the first policy framework to explicitly outline how to scale down harmful industries, organise production around public benefit, and achieve global ecological justice.

WEEKEND READING

Read here phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics…