Global supply chains have become new economic weapons for great powers. In this article with
@mevers90
, we develop a structural theory of business-state relations and show how power transitions affect a state's ability to exercise economic statecraft 1/n
In a review essay published in
@PoPpublicsphere
, I have the honor to examine state-business collusion, state vs private capitalism, and economic strategy based on three award-winning books by
@yuenyuenang
,
@YelingT
and Changdong Zhang. Open access here
I am thrilled to share that my article co-authored with the brilliant
@fhollenbach
finally came out open access in
@ISQ_Jrnl
after many years of working together. A thread below:
Honored and grateful that my paper coauthored with
@fhollenbach
won the Best Comparative Policy Paper Award from
@APSAtweets
@APSA_PubPol
. Thanks to all who provided feedback along the way. A brief 🧵:
Excited that my new article, "Institutional Rebound: Why Reforming China’s State-Owned Enterprises Is so Difficult," is coming out in Comparative Politics An earlier version can be found here 1/n
Super excited that
@JohnsHopkins
has received major funding for a new Center for Economy and Society, and I am glad that I can help in the process, together with Steve Teles, Angus Burgin, and
@henryfarrell
. Also proud that
@margaretlevi
will head our advisory board. Links below:
It looks like Huawei's progress on Chip technology is the biggest news this week on US-China tech war. I have predicted this outcome in several pieces since 2018 1/4
My recent book, Manipulating Globalization, explains the politics behind China’s implementation of industrial policies in a globalized era. When I started the research almost a decade ago, few people knew firms like Huawei or ZTE.
In July 2021, morale was high and citizens endorsed the leadership. A year later, China is in crisis and the state is cornered. Why did the state fail to adjust its Covid policy in time? 1) The desire to preserve the international image; 2) domestic information constraints. 1
Just testified in front of
@USCC_GOV
on the U.S. Senate committee hearing channel. A good chance to re-think state-business relations and important players in China's economic ecosystem. My testimony starts around 02:32
@saishopkins
@AsiaProgram
#SAISgrad23
Nothing is more exciting than seeing my own brilliant student graduating
@SAISHopkins
. Congrats to
@EricaYunyi
! I am humbled to have her taking three courses with me. Sending her off to start her PhD in Political Science
@UTAustin
!
Super excited that my mentor
@MkBlyth
won
@isanet
's SWIPE Mentor Award in IPE. He combines scholarly brilliance with humor and wisdom. He knows when to hand-hold and when to cultivate independence. See quotes from all of us here 1/2
Everyone
@SAISHopkins
and the larger DC area should come to
@izading
's talk on her impactful book The Performative State this Friday afternoon from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in the Rome Auditorium organized by
@ChinaSais
Very excited about my coming talk at
@Yale
's China colloquium! My first in-person event since the start of the pandemic. Thanks to
@mattinglee
for the invitation. Everyone is welcome to stop by if you happen to be in the region. More information here
I'm proud to have my book reviewed by
@YueHou7
on Perspectives on Politics
@PoPpublicsphere
(the comparative politics section). She captured the big picture and details better than myself, and suddenly made me want to read my own book
book reviews just came out in Journal of East Asian Studies Journal of Chinese Political Science Contemporary Chinese Political Economy Business Tianjin
Before an exciting semester starts in person, I am coming to make sure that all blinds are fine. When I used this classroom 3 years ago, sunlight would directly come into students’ eyes. So glad that brand new blinds are installed! And there is even a small kitchen😊😅
Just finished reading these two excellent new books on China’s political economy. Freshly published from the presses! Definitely recommend using them for your classes!
@YueHou7
@nujoaixil
@agoldstn
Also I am proud to be a discussant for the latter’s book conference.
Since many discussed meritocracy, see this well-known article Performance matters more at lower levels than higher levels. Thus not surprised about faction building for politburo. But, are we saying that lower-level meritocracy is now gone too?
My here goes out to all who are suffering from the earthquakes. My own hometown experienced a similar disaster in 2008. Hope to find effective ways to help.
Very much looking forward to this in-person talk by
@vshih2
on his important book, organized by
@ChinaSais
, and moderated by
@MerthaAndrew
. Link here
No no Mr. Enjeti. I am an independent scholar and I criticize whatever I want to criticize. Would you say that if CCP did not intervene, then WSJ can just simply be racist? I am not asked by the CCP to do anything, but I still find this unacceptable.
The Chinese Communist is party is attacking and inciting a harassment campaign against WSJ columnist
@wrmead
for writing about coronavirus
The CCP does not get to dictate our headlines and should spend more time treating the virus instead of covering it up
👇That's exactly how I felt (and wrote in my diary) when I saw the Hu Jintao episode. Whether you like Hu or not, when he walked out of the party congress, I know that an era has passed, and a door has been completely closed. What is waiting ahead for us? I am not sure.
My oped
@nytimes
-
China’s great capitalist revolution under Mr. Deng and his successors is now history. So is Mr. Xi’s first 10 years in office, when there was at least a minimal layer of checks on his power from moderate, non-loyalist officials.
Recently, many academic friends reached out to share their exciting papers, telling me they cited my work. It turned out they cited works by the other professor Ling Chen at Tsinghua who co-authored with professor Barry Naughton😅 I very much admire both of their works 1/3
And in an article forthcoming in International Security with my brilliant co-author
@mevers90
, we also discuss why US strategies may be counterproductive and spur more technology acceleration. We will share the article soon. Stay tuned! 4/4
Good news - my book now has a new price of $26. It is formal! You can get it at Amazon prime has temporally sold it out of stock (from this link here ) Will urge them to fill up the stock soon but there are other purchasing options
My recent book, Manipulating Globalization, explains the politics behind China’s implementation of industrial policies in a globalized era. When I started the research almost a decade ago, few people knew firms like Huawei or ZTE.
me: oh look! There is a little birdie...
my daughter: mommy, I talk like a three-year-old, but you should not talk like that. You should at least talk like a nine-year-old...
me: ...
JHU's Center for Economy and Society (CES) is having an open-rank search for two professorships in political economy. For more about CES, see here: If you are interested, apply here:
Internationally, China wanted to prove its superior Covid control policy in contrast to the number of covid death in the US (reported daily in China). Of course, the ultimate reason for preserving an international image was to boost domestic legitimacy. 2
For many years, China scholars have to deal with Chinese hyper-nationalist-conspiracy-theorists, on the one hand, and China haters who think that even the rice we eat can be labeled authoritarian, on the other hand.
tbh, any time I praise China, I add “although” afraid of being seen as a CCP propagandist; any time I criticize China, I add “but”, worrying it'd add fuel to the already hyped-up red scare. That’s something Chinese scholars in the US will have to face for the years to come.
Glad that my article co-authored with
@haozhangmit
"Strategic Authoritarianism: The Political Cycles and Selectivity of China's Tax-Break Policy" has made it onto the list of most cited AJPS articles in 2021-2022.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest virtual issue of most cited American Journal of Political Science articles in 2021-2022. These top cited papers are open access and free to read. View the issue and share widely with your colleagues.
Just went to a fantastic book talk by
@yuenyuenang
at UCSD with extremely vivid illustrations on the type of corruption in China. Also honored to see my own work on Kunshan being quoted on a slide :-) can't wait to read the book!
CHINA'S GILDED AGE is released today on Amazon (Kindle)
Like everyone else, I didn't expect a pandemic, let alone releasing my 2⃣🔖during one
Grateful to be safe during this difficult time, and even more 🙏 to all who keep us safe and fed. Thank you!
Excellent piece by
@jessicacweiss
and
@jerometenk
. I was IN China in January and used VPN to access US news. Tons of virus reports. To say that the US delayed response (two months later!) because of China's cover up is not logical.
For those who plan to attend APSA but not crossing the picket line, see below 👇 Most hotels on APSA portal (Indigo, Figueroa, Marriott, Courtyard, InterContinental, Residence Inn, Sheraton) are on Local 11 list. 1/5
Also, Trump has a nick name 川建国,which means he helped to destroy US and hence facilitate the rise of China...It took me a while to understand this nick name.
“If Biden is elected, I think this could be more dangerous for China, because he will work with allies to target China, whereas Trump is destroying U.S. alliances.”
two- year-old: "Mama, what a great choice of a yellow shirt. I love your purple dress and your black hair. They are beautiful. I love your watch too!" Me: "Awww..really...so so sweet.." Two-year-old: "I want cake, mama! I want a strawberry cake!"
Do you think you can just say "go back to China" and run away? Nope. At least there is a social cost. Maura Moynihan, you deleted your social media account, but everyone, including your father, will think that your behavior is shameful.
Just recognized that this shameless hater injured two people. And kudos to the 75-year-old who fought back. Assaulting the elderly just because you think they are weak reveals how ugly you are. It is obviously time to stand up.
Domestically, a centralized system cannot acquire fast and accurate information on how desperate the population has become, which differs fundamentally from routine societal complaints. The state hence drastically overestimated its ability to maintain the zero covid policy. 3
This month, two academic girl friends who just had babies called me and mentioned their worries. They really want to go to a conference but their husbands will be away, and they need to figure out how to pump and store milk appropriately and whether to have overnight nannies, or
Democratization aside, CCP's mass line "from the masses, to the masses" requires knowing the status and thoughts of the masses, which is clearly not the case here, giving local states room for information manipulation. 4
"It's easier to be a parent this morning. Its easier to tell your kids, character matters. Telling the truth matters. Being a good person matters. Every day you're waking up you are getting these tweets. And you spent so much of your life energy just trying to hold it together."
My Monkey Cage piece pointed at the beginning of the tech war (when actions started on ZTE) that this will be a wake-up call for China to re-focus on hardcore technology 2/4
Yep, when I first saw the news, I was like of course, any consulate that is forced out have to burn documents. Otherwise, they hand them to the U.S.? But then Republicans came out asking what they are hiding. Really?
I can't get over how stupid the 'if they were burning papers they must have something to hide' line was about Houston. Of course they had something to hide! It was a consulate! The US does the exact same thing - destroying confidential information - when forced out.
NEW:
@SAISHopkins
@lingchenjhu
joined
@CSISFreeman
Jude Blanchette this week on Pekingology to discuss her recent article, Capital Mobility and Taxation: State-Business Collusion in China.
Listen here:
Welcome to our new affiliates for 2019-2020!
We are pleased to welcome 49 affiliates, including new faculty, An Wang posdoctoral fellows, Hou Family Fellows in Taiwan Studies, visiting scholars, graduate student associates, and associates in research
I loooove Feburary. Its full of good news from my friends/colleagues/students. People have won awards, landed on tenure-track jobs, won fellowships, having publications accepted, being accepted to PhD programs. Amazing! ✌️
Congrats to
@linshengqiao
for winning the APSA Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best conference paper presented at APSA! I am proud to be on his doctoral dissertation committee.
I am really thrilled to announce that my dissertation paper received Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented in
@APSAtweets
conference! You can find the working paper here (R&R now)
Our findings shift scholarly debates on the use of economic statecraft in modern great power competition and have policy implications for weaponizing supply chains against rising powers like China. 5/n
My take on Biden's 100 days policy quoted in Financial Times. Not surprised by democrats' emphasis on values. Also admire many of his domestic policies. But I am surprised by his continuity of Trump's economic and tech policies.
@SAISHopkins
@AsiaProgram
I just went through an online portal where the security question for log in is "who is your doctoral dissertation advisor?" Wow that was quite a security question!😊
The center will hire new faculty and postdocs, contribute to at least five disciplines, and contribute to the training of undergrad and graduate students.
just simply bring the baby on the way. This detail reminds me of other numerous difficulties for women and mothers who are in academia and who want to remain in academia. Feeling thankful to all women that have generously helped me before 🙏🙏
Yesterday at
@ChinaSais
reception. Proud for all graduating students. About 2/3 of them have taken my various classes on China, East Asia and Comparative Politics. And thanks for the precious gift
@saiscsr
I appreciate your appreciation!
@SAISHopkins
Panel 2 is on China's economic outlook, featuring Wang Yan (IFF), Liu Yong (China Development Bank) and Ling Chen (
@SAISHopkins
), and
@davidrdollar
moderating.
Delightful to chat with
@jordanschnyc
who read my whole book (& sent over 3 pages of notes). Plus, only time I get to speculate on casting for a Bo Xilai movie.
Tune in to his China Talk Podcast, with
@eosnos
, Eddie Fishman, & others
Yes, that's definitely a great point relevant to my own work. I actually read this brilliant book when it first came out. But I just noticed this highlighted part the first time!
Ironically, that backfired. Attracting giant foreign companies crowded out indigenous innovation.
An argument that echoes
@lingchenjhu
study of Suzhou in Manipulating Globalization
Suzhou copied the Singapore model, and thus replicated its strengths and weaknesses
Starting my day with appreciation: I thank those who pack and deliver groceries to me and those who deliver bakery to me. I appreciate you saving my life during this hard time!
Yellen's visit to
@SAISHopkins
. Enjoyed talking to
@AnaSwanson
What I mean here (to expand a bit) is that what belongs to the "security" area is vague, and there is no clear definition. Just like years ago, we would not think that Tiktok is an issue
Sometimes I wonder how editors decide on a headline. But I have read so many different versions of Huawei's interview in different languages. Ren Zhengfei's view towards US is much more complicated than this I have to say
When saying “we are against racialism,” are we really doing it? Do white people only make real friends with white people? Are they caught by surprise whenever minorities, expected to be silent, suddenly speak up? Do they only live in white neighborhoods?
Agree with the implications of the finding. But I am surprised to find for women with young children, the covid only decreases research time by1.5 hours per day? Really? That's how long I get my child to sit on the dinner table. When daycare is closed, 8 hours is lost, no?
Compared to childless academic men, since the start of the pandemic, women with children have lost over 500 hours of research time. Even compared to men with children they've lost 150-200 hours of research. As for single parents, I'd dread to see the data.
3) the US-China tech war stage, when techno-nationalism is on the rise with tight state control, which is discussed in this paper, but there are more works to come.
@FilipeCampante
In China it's similar. Used to be a fancy thing that young people go to. Later become kids-orientated. But was not associated with poor people at all. Part of the reason is McDonald uses different recipes in China catering to Asians so they taste good...
My first time being quoted by
@FortuneMagazine
. Simply supplying capital for setting up plants isn't enough, when US needs many years to have the skilled workforce that matches the desired capacity to fabricate chips, and this gave Asian countries leverage.
Congrats to IDRF alum
@lingchenjhu
on her recent book "Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China" which explores the politics of China's implementation of industrialized policies in a globalized era.
2) the fragmented coalition stage, when bureaucrats promoting international business and indigenous firm innovation form coalitions with their own business clients. My World Development article explains the dynamics of this stage:
A common theme emerged among them on state-business collusion: the state promotes growth but seeks every measure to keep the upper hand in authoritarian governance, while businesses have to bribe to survive, giving rise to patron-client relations.