Jay Dilks Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FSInsight.com Carl Quintanilla 8th-century #Chinese #poetry presaged social media: 新鬼煩寃舊鬼哭 天陰雨濕聲啾啾 杜甫《兵車行》 New ghosts complain; old ghosts weep. Cloudy sky, wet rain, sounds of tweet tweet. - Du Fu, "Soldiers Ballad" translation & watercolor Sabina Knight 桑稟华

How do dictators maintain power for life? I explain in a new book that they can stay in power by forming "Coalitions of the Weak" composed of tainted or inexperienced officials. Not a loyalty-competence tradeoff but one of institutions vs patrimonialism cambridge.org/core/books/coa…

Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations Smith College "Short stories are especially apt for conveying a sense of Taiwan’s colliding cultures and aspirations. The stories reveal the precarity of war & dislocation, the oppression of women, the wages of materialism, the reclaiming of Taiwanese identities, . . ." fivebooks.com/best-books/sho…

NameweeOfficial on cross-strait relations. *The Wall*, from #Taiwan. youtube.com/watch?v=WCLlFA…

At the *#Taiwan Studies +* Symposium Harvard University today, I'll be honoring Steve to open the #geopolitics panel.

Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations "#Writers from #Taiwan have also produced powerful novels, but I’ve been most struck by the economy of these masterful short #stories." fivebooks.com/best-books/sho…

Fairbank Center, Harvard University “I remember Steve’s insistence that we talk about #China or #Taiwan. . . . Aside from . . . 'talking China,' he had no patience for academic struggles. . . . He advised me to join the Fairbank Center, Harvard University. . . . and it was at the Center that he mentored me.” Sabina Knight 桑稟华

What do Chinese people believe? What cultural traits are associated with China’s recent economic growth? Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting my paper, “Values of China: Toward a Cultural Map,” at Utrecht University. The working paper is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Wed, Apr 9th, 3:00 pm, NYC The Struggle for #HongKong: Reflections on the #Protests of the 2010s & the #Crackdowns of the 2020s Authors Emily Feng 冯哲芸 NPR & @jwassers UC Irvine w/ Sewell Chan Columbia Journalism Review National Committee on U.S.-China Relations event The Korea Society 350 Madison Ave. ncuscr.org/event/the-stru…

Dad, what are capital gains taxes? … you don’t have to worry about it, Son.

Runway of Tariffs Made in a single day using: Images – GPT-4o Image Gen Video – Luma AI Global trade has never looked this good.

emma 桑稟華 Sabina Knight Recalling the beautiful and perceptive tweets my @SmithCollege students posted in our "Dwelling Poetically" course. x.com/emmaberver/sta…

For what it’s worth, I still think a U.S.-China deal—some form of one—is very much possible in the near term. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s still very much in the works. From what I hear/understand, there’s mutual willingness to deescalate. The catch is this:

李其 Lizzi Let's hope you're right. It's odd, though: I remember talking about Sino-Indian negotiations over the perennial border issue with Ananth Krishnan, veteran reporter, and his sense was that China generally prefers to start with the high-level stuff: atmospherics, positivity — while

Reposted from andy rothman on LinkedIn: “Greetings from Xiamen. China today announced another round of retaliatory tariffs on US goods, to 125%. But the real news is that the Ministry of Finance said China is done with this game: “Given that American goods are no longer

Everything about these tariffs was stupid, and everyone who defended it is economically illiterate, an opportunist or a moron (and often all of these). Even if this episode ends soon, the damage to US institutions and credibility is permanent and it's costly

New! The China Navy Leadership Bookshelf bit.ly/PLANLeadership Since #Xi assumed power in 2012, an extraordinary array of flag & general officers, as well as #defense industry leaders, has been removed. By my running tally, this includes: 15+ senior military officials &

Trump’s #tariffs are just the latest blow. Europe’s industrial base is under siege from Moscow, Beijing & now Washington. To defend itself, the EU must reindustrialise. Economic & national security are at stake, warns Joris Teer 刘亚伯. ➡️ Read: iss.europa.eu/publications/c…

Victor Shih Major talent currently stateside is also leaving. Insitutions abroad are welcoming the U.S. brain drain. x.com/vshih2/status/…

Tom Nichols Here's a gifted link. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…