Administrative law / Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host the China Studies podcast, @Zhengfawei80, @LawAnGovernance
Joined July 2017
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29 Jun 2025
It was my great honor to speak with @meredithchenn at some length on how the landscape of U.S.-China relations looks to me now, especially through the prism of academic exchange, as part of the @SCMPNews Open Questions interview series:
amp.scmp.com/news/china/dipl…
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A fantastic week in Singapore
20 fellows of our Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China met in Singapore last week, hosted by @nuseai, presenting draft policy papers for feedback & discussion, joined by 20 interlocutors from the impressive academic & policy community in Singapore. Next stop Seoul in January!
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Glad to be part of the group. Thanks for the comments and ideas during my draft presentation, really helping me narrow down the focus for the next step!
20 fellows of our Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China met in Singapore last week, hosted by @nuseai, presenting draft policy papers for feedback & discussion, joined by 20 interlocutors from the impressive academic & policy community in Singapore. Next stop Seoul in January!
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Some more scenes from the highly generative and inspiring conversations from the past few days, including remarks to our assembled group from the last two Singaporean ambassadors to the U.S., Ashok Mirpuri (2012-23) & Chan Heng Chee (1996–2012), and a well attended public event.
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20 fellows of our Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China met in Singapore last week, hosted by @nuseai, presenting draft policy papers for feedback & discussion, joined by 20 interlocutors from the impressive academic & policy community in Singapore. Next stop Seoul in January!
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New essay by one of our 4th cohort fellows! (2)
Jun 12
My new piece in @ForeignAffairs explains why it is so difficult for the Chinese government to stop misallocation of resources and wasteful spending, how waste in China differs from waste in democracies, and what it means for China’s development.
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New essay by one of our 4th cohort fellows! (1)
Jun 12
Why does China seem more like a nation of AI techno-optimists than the U.S.?
It's not easy for Americans to understand the Chinese hunger for the future, partly because it has little to do with fears around humanness.
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theideasletter.org/essay/the…
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Jun 13
My closing words at the end of Thursday’s panel were heartfelt
Our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China just completed its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. Here is the video of Thursday's public event, a timely and wide ranging discussion featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative
youtube.com/watch?v=YfpcNeZ4…
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Our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China just completed its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. Here is the video of Thursday's public event, a timely and wide ranging discussion featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative
youtube.com/watch?v=YfpcNeZ4…
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Our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China is about to hold its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. Tomorrow, you can join our public event, featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative, live by registering at research.nus.edu.sg/eai/2020… or vitually at:
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Great having Penn students led by @NeysunM on @Tsinghua_Uni campus! After chatting online since Feb, they just finished a 5-day immersive exchange with our students. Glad I got to join them for a quick tour of the Old Summer Palace.
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Our 10 undergrad student fellows from @Penn spent the past week engaging with student counterparts from @Tsinghua_Uni in academic & policy dialogues about the U.S.-China relationship and also we got to recreate the photo from last month’s summit between our countries’ two leaders
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If you're in Singapore, please join us
Next week, our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China (global.upenn.edu/future-of-u…) will hold its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. If you are in Singapore, you can join us on campus for the public session, featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative
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Next week, our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China (global.upenn.edu/future-of-u…) will hold its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. If you are in Singapore, you can join us on campus for the public session, featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative
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May 29
Earlier this month @thewirechina reported on the expulsion of a @nytimes journalist from Beijing, and the chain of events that has led to the smallest number of U.S. reporters on the ground in China since the normalization of diplomatic relations.
Read:
thewirechina.com/2026/05/10/…
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May 29
The New York Times Calls for Reinstatement of China Correspondent. Read more in a statement from Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor of The New York Times.
nytco.com/press/the-new-york…
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May 29
I think this is the first time where the NYT has acknowledged Vivian’s reprehensible expulsion after some months of quiet efforts to solve her case. Sad to see and further evidence of the fragile, contingent nature of U.S.-China “stabilization” these days.
nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/po…
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May 29
US-China academic exchange has faced real challenges on both sides. But the choice is NOT between naïve engagement and no dialogue (total decoupling).@NeysunM has been a thoughtful leader in practicing constructive dialogue while understanding the risks and constraints.
May 28
Pretty funny to get trolled randomly out of the blue by a colleague (we are both non resident senior fellows in @FPRI’s Asia Program) for giving a public talk in an event space of a law firm in Shanghai. Amazing 😂😂
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May 29
This is so tiresome, I’ll be done engaging on this after this post, but I can’t resist noting the irony that my own academic talk — which is public! — risks being shut down by Jackie sitting in the U.S. We are truly through the looking-glass if we view this world through her lens
May 29
The host later elaborates that not only are U.S. government reps barred, but even academic talks are "sensitive" and risk being "shut down."
Source: saisobserver.org/2023/03/01/…
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