Can African countries mimic Asia’s economic success? With Joe Studwell ift.tt/3hfmPWJ

"I think Taiwan is a crisis Xi Jinping also wants to avoid, not an opportunity he wants to seize," non-resident scholar @JohnCulver689 is interviewed by @washingtonpost. Read the full interview: washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

(23) How Silicon Valley sold Washington an AI race Have been saying this for some time...great piece No doubt some advocates of this story are true believers with legitimate concerns. There are also others chasing government contracts, looser regulation and investment returns. But whatever the motivations, there is evidence that the China AI race narrative may be based on fundamental misconceptions and misrepresentations of China’s actual AI priorities and actions. transformernews.ai/p/us-chin…

[Reposted to fix typos!] Internship Alert! For those interested in working with me (or who have deep policy interests in Chinese economics and technology—and can bear with me), I’m looking for a great colleague to join our team this summer! We will have a lot of exciting projects ahead as we dig into the nitty gritty of Chinese innovation, the macro economy, and the evolving landscape of U.S.-China competition! This is a hands on role at Asia Society @AsiaPolicy Center for China Analysis, where you’ll be working closely with me on research, writing, data, and building out real analytical frameworks around China’s economic and technological trajectory! If you’re someone deeply curious about how China’s system works from the inside out (and want to do serious, policy-relevant work) would love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out or apply! Bonus: you’ll also have the opportunity to stargaze at my brilliant office neighbors, Neil @neilthomas123 and Lyle @LyleJMorris and work alongside them (we have a lot of cross-pillar collaborations!) JD How to Apply in the next post 👇

This and more in a new @CarnegieEndow / @YouGov survey: carnegieendowment.org/resear…

china might control the pipeline for a cancer cure? in 2023 i wrote that US–PRC collab on clinical trials reduces the time it takes for new drugs to go frm labs to US cancer patients by 7-10 years, according to Dr Bob Li, an oncologist & Sr Fellow w Asia Society’s Cure4Cancer

hey @StateDept will processing of non-immigrant visas (tourism, business, students) continue in all of these countries?

A beautiful sunset in Point Reyes tonight. This one is for Bobby. “River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy All the way back home”

New from @rothmanandy on the @SinicaPodcast newsletter: "Return of the Chinese Consumer." Xi made boosting consumption a top priority in Dec 2025. The policy pendulum is swinging back toward pragmatism after 2020-24 reg crackdowns. CN households have added $11.6 trillion in savings since 2020—fuel for a rebound. Real estate remains the biggest obstacle to consumer recovery. sinicapodcast.com/p/the-retu…

Exclusive | Why US economist Nicholas Lardy thinks the ‘peak China’ theory has peaked scmp.com/economy/china-econo…

Bourla urged the U.S. to shift focus from trying to slow China’s progress toward improving its own productivity and innovation. “We spend more time trying to think about how to slow down China rather than think how we can become better than them,” Bourla said.

“A Mackinac Center for Public Policy report has found that over 20 years, jobs subsidies failed 91% of the time.”

Beijing Ups the Ante -- @RothmanAndy @SinicaPodcast sinicapodcast.com/p/beijing-…

great conversation about an excellent paper dispelling myths about beijing’s foreign policy intentions

but i heard that the tariffs are paid by foreigners, not by american companies and consumers, so why are exemptions necessary?