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Elizabeth Economy

6 years

First came Mao Zedong. Then Deng Xiaoping. Now, we are witnessing Xi Jinping lead China’s #ThirdRevolution . Follow along and pre-order here:

The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

www.amazon.com

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Few things are more damaging to China's soft power ambitions than the country's ambassadors on twitter

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4 years

Ethnic minorities dancing in Xinjiang. Only happy and carefree people can dance so beautifully.

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In zoom seminar with Chinese colleagues yesterday, I raised Tiananmen, then why US is concerned about PRC's polit system: Uyghurs, HK, NBA, journalists, etc. Was dropped from the call in middle of remarks. Got back on. We all joked about it--but maybe there was no joke to be had

Anna Fifield

@annafifield

4 years

Critics of the Chinese government, including protest leaders in Hong Kong and pro-democracy activists in the US, say Zoom shut their accounts under pressure from Beijing. Zoom acknowledges that “a few recent meetings” related to China have been disrupted.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

What would happen if the US, EU member countries, Canada, Japan, and Australia all sent reps to Taiwan at the same time. Can we just break the back of this ridiculousness?

Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板

@BaldingsWorld

5 years

Here is an English version of what is happening in Prague with Beijing literally threatening people and firms

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Why worry about today when you can have the entire world lauding you for something you promise to do by 2060?

Reinhard Bütikofer

@bueti

4 years

China granted more construction permits for coal-fired power plants in the first six months of 2020 than it had each year in 2018 and 2019. (NYT) #ClimateCrisis

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

7 years

A lot of people are talking about how the U.S. has left the door open for China to assume the mantle of global leadership. Let me offer an alternative argument: We suck, but China does too.

China: Pretender to the Throne

The New Year has brought a rash of new articles and proclamations to the effect that the retreat of the United States has left the door open for China to walk through and assume the mantle of global …

www.cfr.org

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Actually, it reveals more about MI6's intel capabilities--Xi has been hiding in plain sight since 2012

Shashank Joshi

@shashj

4 years

John Sawers, former MI6 chief. "The last six months have revealed more about China under President Xi Jinping than the previous six years. China is overplaying its hand and giving western leaders no option but to stand up to it" via @FT

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

Tiny Estonia, the Czech Republic and Sweden all pushing back against Chinese coercive tactics. Where are the big guys—U.K., Germany and France?

Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板

@BaldingsWorld

5 years

CC: @BorisJohnson

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4 years

What price freedom? A bottle of Australian wine. Kudos to the world's parliamentarians for leading the way.

Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)

@ipacglobal

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#SolidaritywithAustralia 🍷🇦🇺

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Elizabeth Economy

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3 years

It would be great if Kissinger would offer that same advice to Beijing, which is in fact the actor that is seeking to use its values to undermine existing structures

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@Dimi

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Henry Kissinger & Michael Bloomberg argue that the US should not push China too hard on human rights.

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Elizabeth Economy

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3 years

It would be nice if Kishore would write a piece that talked about how Beijing instead of Biden should "summon the courage to reverse course"

James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Apparently reasonable argument about Chinese success today—but ignoring the atrocities in Xinjiang makes it meaningless. It’s like saying PRC was doing great in 1968–except for the Cultural Revolution. XJ issue is overtaking all else, till CCP backs off

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

2 years

@billbirtles The real question is: who cares what Elon Musk has to say about Taiwan?

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

China will engage on climate change--or it won't--for its own reasons. The EU investment agreement will have no impact.

Stuart Lau

@StuartKLau

4 years

EU Commission spokesman @MamerEric defended the bloc’s decision to reach an investment deal, and added the need to engage China on issues like climate change, when asked about the impact of the human rights situation in Hong Kong on EU-China relations.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Eventually the U.S. and everywhere else will also have the freedom to move around again...when will China have the other freedoms?

Li Yuan袁莉

@LiYuan6

4 years

My latest on how the pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Chinese don’t have freedom of speech, freedom of worship or freedom from fear, but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Great that Google will bend its priniciples to do business in China but pulls a U.S. gov't bid to work on AI because it doesn't align with its "cloud values." What exactly are those values?

Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google?

If it wins government approval to offer its search engine in China, Google won't have some typical assets, like rich user data and integration with its browser.

www.wired.com

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

A straight up gift for the Biden campaign

Hu Xijin 胡锡进

@HuXijin_GT

4 years

On the contrary, Chinese netizens wish for your reelection because you can make America eccentric and thus hateful for the world. You help promote unity in China and you also make intl news as fun as comedy. Chinese netizens call you “Jianguo,” meaning “help to construct China”.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Important signal that Chinese Gov't suppression of COVID-19 story continues. Not simply a function of crisis mentality at the outset. It is the system not the situation.

Lily Kuo

@lilkuo

4 years

China University of Geosciences in Wuhan and Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University said papers related to the virus' origins must be approved by the ministry of science and technology. Fudan University in Shanghai said all papers related to virus tracing be "strictly managed".

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

For Beijing, the Olympics pageantry is an opportunity to showcase the country’s achievements and hope everyone will ignore what is going on in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet, so yes, I want to deny Beijing that easy win but not punish the athletes

Chen Weihua （陈卫华）

@chenweihua

4 years

@LizEconomy No one cares if you don’t cover the opening. China then won’t cover when it’s LA’s turn in 2028. Is that what you want?

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Taiwan's VP is trained as a geneticist and epidemiologist

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@Laurie_Garrett

4 years

Germany benefits from having a physicist as Chancellor. Comprehending the science of #COVID19 ...

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

Puzzling piece. Fareed is eloquent,but his conclusion is US should go back to “engage but hedge.” Fails to address china’s efforts to export its political and economic values. Xi’s China is not the China of the past thirty years and US policy can’t be either.

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@LizEconomy

4 years

The law of embarrassing the CCP

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

Excellent new interactive from my @CFR_org colleague @BennSteil and analyst @bdellarocca on BRI. Very hard to find solid data on this, and these guys have done it!

Belt and Road Tracker

This tracker shows how the Belt and Road Initiative changed countries’ bilateral economic relationships with China over time.

www.cfr.org

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

I generally favor coincidence over conspiracy, but within one week Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey resigns and the NBA is back on CCTV . .

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

Looking forward to a new West Coast base at Hoover come September! Thanks to all my friends and colleagues who encouraged me along the way.

Hoover Institution

@HooverInst

5 years

News | @LizEconomy named Hoover Institution Senior Fellow:

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

I am hiring two research associates to work with me at @CFR_org in NYC! Great opportunity for early-career researchers interested in Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics:

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

In President Trump’s cultivation of an “America First” agenda, he may well be planting the seeds for a “China First” world. My latest for @WSJ :

Xi Jinping’s Superpower Plans

As the U.S. retreats, Beijing is talking more boldly about how it wants to change the global order and assert its own values and interests.

www.wsj.com

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

7 years

A three minute read for a transformative understanding of China

Translation: Within Pain There is Also Hope

The following essay was posted on Weibo by a student from Inner Mongolia, under user name “South Moon” (南的月亮), about her experiences living with and befriending her Uyghur and Tibetan classmates. The...

chinadigitaltimes.net

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Maybe that no one is going to join their community with a shared future for mankind after all

Yanzhong Huang

@YanzhongHuang

4 years

Curious how Chinese foreign policy makers would think when seeing this.

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@LizEconomy

3 years

My only hope is that when these CSSA students return to China, they take back the guiding principle of the University of Chicago that allows them to write this letter and Nathan Law to speak--a commitment to free speech and civil discourse.

Melissa Chan

@melissakchan

3 years

Can we stop being gaslit that the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations on US campuses are totally benign when they try to shut down free speech — in this case, against Hong Konger Nathan Law, and issue letters that sound exactly like what the Chinese Ministry would say.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

I am guessing irony was not present

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@ianbremmer

3 years

“Rules made by one or more countries should not be forced upon others.” - Xi Jinping, not talking about the South China Sea

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Actually, a big win for the UK

Kevin Baron

@DefenseBaron

4 years

Wow, UK bans Huawei 5G. Big win for Esper and Pompeo...

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

Sachs misses the irony in his situation--he speaks out on human rights abuses in the US--as is his right--but there is no Chinese citizen living in China who can do the same without fear of going to jail.

Tom Wright

@thomaswright08

3 years

Sachs is a special advisor to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell

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@LizEconomy

4 years

What it means to be allies...

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

Chinese nationalism may be the most powerful driver of decoupling--time for U.S. companies to explore the other 84 percent of the world's population.

Li Yuan袁莉

@LiYuan6

3 years

Chinese brands see their chance in the fight over Xinjiang cotton.China is undergoing a consumer brand revolution. Its young generation is more nationalistic &actively looking for brands that can align with that confidently Chinese identity.Latest from me

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

The Trump administration has an important story to sell around U.S. policy toward China that is more multilateral and principles-based than is immediately evident. Yet the White House does not know how to tell the story, much less sell it. My latest :

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@LizEconomy

4 years

For four years we in the U.S. cringed in embarrassment as Trump ignored the EU call for cooperation and partnership; now Biden is all in and the EU is suddenly confused about what it wants?

Boris Ruge

@RugeBoris

4 years

Today's @FAZ_NET editorial basically argues #Berlin isn't ready for #Biden & his foreign policy. Author @NikolasBusse sees #China policy as exhibit A. I believe #Germany & #Europe can be strong partners to the #US - but it will take a major effort.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

The US should not fear the China model or Xi's promotion of it. It is not, in the end, an inherently resilient or attractive system. Yet neither can Washington afford to ignore Xi and his efforts to remake the international system. My latest via @NPR :

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@LizEconomy

6 years

As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president, there are signs that his new model’s very successes are becoming liabilities. My latest in @ForeignAffairs :

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Just the facts jack. What does Chinese influence mean? What does it look like? A masterful and nuanced piece by @jgarnaut

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

1 year

Important to note that de-risking is not all about China. It is about addressing critical supply chain vulnerabilities and over-reliance on any one source

Paul Triolo

@pstAsiatech

1 year

De-risking trade with China is a risky business Security-driven approach to trade clashes with western corporate interests and environmental targets @pstAsiatech : have been saying this for some time, how much de-risking is enough? How "resilient" should supply chains that were

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@LizEconomy

4 years

When Chinese diplomats bare their teeth at every slight, wolf warrior diplomacy loses its bite

Ivana Karásková

@ivana_karaskova

4 years

NEW: #Vystrcil commented #China 's threats remind him of pressure applied on his predecessor Kubera who planed to visit #Taiwan in Feb2020 (he suddenly died in January). Threats included retaliation against #Czech companies, HomeCredit, SkodaAuto (part of VW)& Petrof (piano maker)

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Thanks for a fun exchange on U.S.-China relations

NOW Tonight with Joshua Johnson

@NBCNOWTonight

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Did you catch that Chinese diplomat’s icy confrontation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken? “It's not all coming from a place of confidence with China,” says analyst @LizEconomy . “They're very concerned about being encircled by an alliance of democracies.”

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4 years

Who can’t appreciate this!

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@LizEconomy

5 years

As explained to me by a senior CICIR official, the "community of shared destiny" includes at the very least the end of the U.S.-led alliance system.

Victor Shih

@vshih2

5 years

Don’t think it’s secretive: China wants to shape what that common destiny will be, but of course, it’s unclear what that is

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3 years

Rarely disagree with KC--but Meng admitted she lied. Sanctions on Huawei continue. China once again is revealed as country w/rule of law. Two Michaels go home. Let's take the win.

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Reaches Deal With Justice Department

Under the agreement, Ms. Meng admitted to some wrongdoing, securing an exit from Canada and her U.S. extradition fight; meanwhile, two Canadians detained in China were released.

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@LizEconomy

3 years

I find myself in the pleasant position of simply not caring what Liu Xin has to say.

Dave Coulson

@cheesindave

3 years

Vile #BoycottBeijing2022 #NoBeijing2022 #FreePengShuai

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5 years

Ross and Pompeo should be ashamed of themselves for pushing U.S. econ interests on the back of coronavirus

Caixin Global

@caixin

5 years

Opinion: Bitter exchanges between Washington and Beijing over the coronavirus serve as an unfortunate reminder that the “good old days” of the U.S.-China relationship are not coming back, even when the two face a common enemy.

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@LizEconomy

5 years

Average lifespan of a Chinese building is only about 3 decades--maybe we can just wait while everything crumbles

James Palmer

@BeijingPalmer

5 years

'mr president, we have a man deep inside the Chinese system. everything they do, we sabotage. his name? Mr Cha Buduo.'

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Elizabeth Economy

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4 years

Let’s not forget china’s decoupling effort began at least as early as 2014 with made in China 2025

Victor Shih

@vshih2

4 years

Xi Mobilizes China for Tech Revolution to Cut Dependence on West / and also writing tech companies blank checks is a sure way to inflate real estate bubbles

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@LizEconomy

3 years

So beautifully and clearly articulated

Melissa Chan

@melissakchan

3 years

“Our solidarity with the Uyghurs and the democratic movement in Hong Kong has to be more important than any potential… economic benefit market access could have.” Said EU MP and Green Party member @HNeumannMEP just days ago:

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3 years

Is it that Beijing doesn't have intent because it doesn't have capability? If so, the US should take advantage of this window to help Taiwan develop the capabilities to counter what is surely a longer-term Beijing intent and capability.

Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 🇺🇦

@BonnieGlaser

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CJCS Milley says China has little intention to take Taiwan by force. “There’s no reason to do it militarily, and they know that. So, I think the probability is probably low, in the immediate, near-term future.” Impt to distinguish capabilities/intentions.

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@LizEconomy

4 years

Chinese officials and scholars who whine about the country's inability to "tell its story well" won't believe it, but this is how it's done

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@LizEconomy

4 years

Taiwan's leadership on COVID-19--I see your true colors shining through...

王定宇 Wang Ting-yu, MP

@MPWangTingyu

4 years

In response to parents' concern that their sons are afraid to wear pink face masks to school, officials from Taiwan's Epidemic Command Centre led by Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) today showed up at daily presser wearing pink face masks to challenge gender norms.

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Yes. Our response is on us. But arresting people who question gov't reporting and actions cannot be our model. Let's look to Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia science + public health + democracy

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The Quad will be knocking on an open door. 2021 poll of SEAsian elites reveals very little interest in Chinese regional leadership--even Cambodia prefers the United States

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@LizEconomy

4 years

With friends like these...

Noah Barkin

@noahbarkin

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China’s ambassador to Britain: “If you do not want to be our partners and our friends, if you want to treat China as a hostile country, you will pay the price”

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6 years

Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same. New from @JoshKurlantzick via @washingtonpost :

Unfixable: Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never...

Several nations have tried to restore democracy after populist strongmen. It was never the same. Leaders like Trump do lasting damage to their political systems.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@LizEconomy

4 years

And part of a history that many U.S. scholars have forgotten as well in their portrayal of the Chinese government/CCP as a monolithic entity

Sam Crane

@UselessTree

4 years

For 6/4 this year, a photo of Zhao Ziyang. He wasn't a savior but might have been a sponsor of modest political liberalization in the PRC. He is now excluded from official history. He is part of an alternative history that was crushed by Deng and the PLA.

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@LizEconomy

4 years

China mass produces everything--why not red lines?

Josh Chin

@joshchin

4 years

China's top diplomat insisted on "red lines" the Biden administration shouldn't cross--Covid blame, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan--hours after the U.S.'s top diplomat gave a speech challenging Beijing on pretty much all of them, via @jamestareddy

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@LizEconomy

4 years

But all these feel-good diplomatic moves are meaningless unless we have also ensured that, in whatever form necessary, Taiwan has the capability to defend itself against PRC cyber/military aggression.

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@LizEconomy

6 years

Lawyers. Feminists. Ethnic minorities. The world of independent activists has become a far more difficult and dangerous one under Xi Jinping. Pre-order here:

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@LizEconomy

5 years

Not to put too fine a point on it--but 75% of those 129 Chinese firms are State Owned Enterprises. Does it matter?

ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

5 years

Fortune 500 Global Companies (out today) China 129 (incl 10 in Taiwan) US 121

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@LizEconomy

6 years

We don’t need to read the tea leaves with Xi Jinping anymore. After six years in Office and two published collections of speeches, we know where he has been and where he is taking the country.

Ryan Hass

@ryanl_hass

6 years

The symbolism of these trips aren’t considered casually by Chinese leaders. Xi sent important directional signal, and it’s concerning.

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GT editor Hu Xijin: "China’s ability to explain itself to the world is inadequate," Such a tired trope. The world sees what Beijing does--good and bad. There is no mystery.

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@LizEconomy

5 years

Have yet to see the Vatican stand up for religious freedom in China. Certainly not a peep on Xinjiang.

Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 🇺🇦

@BonnieGlaser

5 years

Vatican, China, hold extremely rare high-level diplomatic meeting . This is worth watching. Amid China's crackdown on religion, the Vatican should hear from the international community that it should stand by Taiwan.

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7 years

All that sucking up for naught

Phelim Kine “老康“

@PhelimKine

7 years

Awkward. Zuck's buddy Lu Wei, #China 's #censorship czar, is heading to jail for "tyrannical” & “shameless” power abuses

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And we should listen to him why?

Michael D. Swaine

@Dalzell60

4 years

The U.S. needs “a new way of thinking” that understands the world is too complex for one country to “achieve such a unilateral superiority...that nobody will be in a position to threaten us.” Sounds like HK sees that US dominance is no longer possible.

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A must read for anyone who thinks that people in China don't have the same desire for greater voice as people everywhere: "For people like us, if you have to hold in your thoughts, it feels like dying.”

Emily Rauhala

@emilyrauhala

6 years

Reports of Chinese authorities hacking into politically problematic twitter accounts and deleting all old tweets, from @gerryshih

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7 years

Haven't had one in a while---but here is the laugh of the day

Ivan the K™

@IvanTheK

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LOL

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Why you might not want to jump on the bandwagon of "the global decline in democracy" or "democratic regression"

Austin H. Wang

@wearytolove

4 years

Today in Thailand

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Since 1987, of the 4 million Chinese students that have studied abroad, only 2.2 million have returned to China. Xi wants to bring them home. Order now:

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@LizEconomy

5 years

“With Chinese characteristics” should basically be understood as negating whatever concept it follows

Lucrezia Poggetti

@lucrepogge

5 years

CGTN Think Tank launched in BJ worth reading along w/ CCP's call to strengthen the construction of new type of think tanks with Chinese characteristics in 2015, incorporating think tanks in public diplomacy and soft power promotion

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Trump staying extra day for EAS because it is "the most important day." Kudos to staffer who boiled it down for him

Trump to Stay for ‘Most Important Day’ of East Asia Summit

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will add a day to the end of his five-nation tour of Asia, saying he would now stay for “the most important day” of a regional summit.

www.bloomberg.com

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@LizEconomy

4 years

Someone could write an article on all the creative ways countries have discovered to keep Huawei out without formally banning the company

Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

@AMFChina

4 years

“Canada is the only member of the Five Eyes ... that has not formally blocked Huawei from 5G networks, but it has effectively done just that, delaying a decision long enough to force telecom companies to exclude the Chinese gear maker.”

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Hard to know what's true and what's not since neither leadership has a close relationship with the truth

Caixin Global

@caixin

6 years

Same meeting, different descriptions: a comparison of Beijing and Washington’s statements on the trade war truce

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

FT needs a fact-checker for its opeds--since when are SOE's "independently operated" unless independently operated by the CCP?

FT China

@ftchina

5 years

US attacks on China’s economy reflect a double standard

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Let's learn from China in the South China Sea: Deny it but do it

Global Taiwan Inst.

@globaltaiwan

4 years

The #US has revealed plans to work with #Taiwan on an #infrastructure development initiative in the #IndoPacific and #LatinAmerica , in an effort to counter China's #BRI in the region and strengthen relationships with Taiwan's allies.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Honored that The Third Revolution was shortlisted for the 2019 @gelberprize !

Munk School

@munkschool

6 years

The shortlist for the 2019 @gelberprize has been announced. Read about this year's finalists:

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

To improve its image, China must change its reality--or at least let 100 flowers bloom--not attempt to "tell a story" better. Jack Ma was a great human interest story w/ enduring soft power potential that evolved organically until Beijing stepped in.

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

3 years

To improve its image, China must tell a story that appeals to people’s emotions

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

It also mistakenly suggests that the Biden administration will do anything as the first goodwill gesture--that should come from Beijing

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

South Korea,Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam...the list of nations China has punished economically on political grounds is long and growing. Maybe there is a case here for reciprocity.

Emily Rauhala

@emilyrauhala

6 years

Selective inspections, unexplained delays. We saw these tactics when China was angry with U.S. over trade war. Now it’s Canadian canola, per SCMP.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

A beautiful and profound e-lecture by Yan Lianke on history and coronavirus that everyone should read

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

11 months

@JEPomfret Renewed exchange—tourist, business, and student—will require a safe, harassment-free environment in both countries. Not hearing enough about that.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Maybe because his call not to "force one's own social system on others" or "threaten or intimidate others" bears no resemblance to the reality of his actions toward Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan or the SCS claimants

ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

4 years

Xi Jinping's call to not enter a new Cold War at the WEF was well received, but the rest of his speech fell flat. @gzeromedia | World #In60Seconds :

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Better late than never...but what is Italy's next move?

Lucrezia Poggetti

@lucrepogge

4 years

Vincenzo Amendola, Italian Minister for European Affairs: “the BRI MoU with China was a mistake. China under Xi is no longer what it used to be.”

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Google's slow decline from "do no evil" to "do the right thing" to "what is the right thing anyway?"

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Insightful analysis of EU-China investment deal--what EU lost and China gained by @dktatlow

The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)

In the CAI, the EU sees mostly a business deal, while China sees mostly a strategic win that isolates the United States. Two days after it was agreed, China defined “defending development interests”...

dgap.org

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

I am clearly late to the game--but if you are a China watcher, you should be reading Samantha Hoffman @He_Shumei Fills in the pieces of the puzzle before others know what the puzzle looks like

Samantha Hoffman

Dr Samantha Hoffman was a Senior Analyst at ASPI. Her work explores the domestic and global implications of the Chinese Communist Party’s approach to state security. It offers new ways of thinking...

www.aspi.org.au

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

7 years

China has long denied plans to divert water from Yarlung Tsangpo before it reaches India's Brahmaputra. Now openly developing the capability

Eddie Du

@Edourdoo

7 years

China’s planning a 1,000km tunnel to divert water away from one of India’s largest rivers via @qzindia

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

Is it a question of caring or knowing?

ian bremmer

@ianbremmer

4 years

It would kill me if there was a mistake like this on my book cover. Hopefully Don Jr doesn’t care as much about grammar.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

Now if only he could figure out a way to help the Chinese people turn on the tap and get clean water

Jennifer Jacobs

@JenniferJJacobs

6 years

China’s Xi Jinping getting worldwide attention for big infrastructure project—$15 billion bridge, the longest sea crossing at 34 miles, from mainland to Hong Kong.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

And 1.4 billion people are saying, "Now you know how I feel."

Eddie Du

@Edourdoo

6 years

The main constraint on the influence of Chinese news (propaganda) is that it is boring.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

6 years

And here I worried that he would disappear Chinese overseas

Head of Interpol missing after China trip

French police are investigating the apparent disappearance of the head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. His wife reported him missing after a trip to China in late September.

www.dw.com

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

Strategic autonomy=strategic naivete

Theresa Fallon

@TheresaAFallon

3 years

With US Climate Czar John Kerry in Beijing, Xi Jinping doesn’t lose an opportunity to try to drive a wedge in #transatlanticrelations & has yet another Merkel, Macron, Xi event alienating the rest of the EU.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

3 years

Any chance it will include walkable streets with places of real cultural interest?

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

3 years

Xiongan, about a two-hour drive from central Beijing, is a site in Hebei province that was hand picked by Chinese President Xi Jinping to be developed into the nation’s new 'dream city'.

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

Swine flu, bird flu, coronavirus, and now an invasion of locusts—isn’t there something in chinese history about the mandate from heaven, natural disasters, and the end of an emperor’s rule?!

Vincent Lee

@Rover829

5 years

Reuters: CHINA FACES RISK OF LOCUST INVASION - FORESTRY AND GRASSLAND ADMINISTRATION (what is happening)

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

5 years

I think that people running Asia policy are absolutely running their own policy around Free and Opem Indo-Pacific—President never talks about it, but they are actively pursuing it.

Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板

@BaldingsWorld

5 years

Hear me out: what if Trump just spouts all kind of stuff that isn't really accurate and the people underneath him are really the key people setting policy?

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Elizabeth Economy

@LizEconomy

4 years

No great mystery--Largest market for LVMH

Eddie Du

@Edourdoo