Very disappointed to see that @AramHur's latest paper in @koreaobserver has six completely fabricated citations. Academic integrity matters, people. A short 🧵

Prominent voices such as Renmin University's Shi Yinhong called it straight: the operation proves Washington's military strength remains superior, its warfare methods have evolved further, and the popular Chinese view of US decline is flatly contradicted. Zheng Yongnian, a key government adviser, hammered the point home: America still holds unparalleled global military power; its war-making rests solely on political will - and that will, under Trump 2.0, turns out to be fiercer than many assumed. Nanjing University's Zhu Feng added that the US demonstrated the swiftest application of advanced military technology anywhere, posing a direct "cognitive challenge" to China.

This Open Access study was written with @hcsteinhardt and my steadfast research assistant, Lisa Bhowmick.

Why the difference? We argue it reflects how democratization in the 90s reshaped national identity. Despite structural similarities, Taiwan's democratization opened a pluralistic (national) identity regime. In South Korea, it consolidated norms around its rigid identity norms.

But the pressure is not evenly distributed. It is strongest among those with weaker prior national identification and among subgroups whose identities are socially contested. In South Korea, this includes North Korean migrants. In Taiwan, dual Taiwanese-Chinese identifiers.

Using list experiments to reduce social desirability bias, we compare direct vs indirect measures of national pride in Taiwan and South Korea. Respondents in both countries exhibit pride inflation, but conformity pressures are stronger and more pervasive in South Korea.

People are generally "proud" to be a national of their country. Or so they say. Why might some citizens overstate their level of pride? In a new article, my co-authors and I examine how social pressure shapes expressions of national identity. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Poland can be glad to have such a clear-eyed political analyst and profound thinker in a position of authority. I can think of no one in the German political elite who can match that. foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/…

Not my business, but I cannot help it... I wonder if all the media which characterized UK labor's 2024 election as a "land slide" - fully ignoring that it's % vote share of 34% was historically low and the % seats the result of splintered opponents - reflect on its reporting?

The woke were warned their tools could be turned against them but couldn't imagine history's arc bending rightward. (I struggled to imagine it myself.) Now populists facing the same warning keep implying no future censorious left could exceed what we've had already. (We'll see.)

Our concluding output at #circ2023: we made a Zine (...I think @carwyn will approve). 6 best-practices for covering #China and the Chinese internet.

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Thanks to Biden and Scholz, this is what we may be facing now. @PhillipsPOBrien "The war could be transformed. Basically Russia would then receive the open or tacit backing of both of the superpowers of the moment—China and the USA. phillipspobrien.substack.com…