Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that apnews.com/article/china-…

Interesting history of the Chinese ID card theworldofchinese.com/2024/04/from-b…

📅 4/23
📷9:30am ET

Tune in for a discussion with Alec Ash - author of the new book 'The Mountains Are High' - on the growing trend of reverse migration in China and its implications for economic competitiveness.
Register below:
csis.org/events/book-ev…

'Western policymakers must now reckon with the reality of an increasingly resolute Sino-Russian axis.' foreignaffairs.com/china/putin-an…

For those in DC, join me at CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies on Apr 23 to hear about China's internal migration and my book 'The Mountains Are High.' Register here: csis.org/events/book-ev…

Chechnya. What a fun place. cnn.com/2024/04/08/eur…

Just seeing this now. Fascinating video of war games over Chinese invasion of Taiwan (leading to a pyrrhic victory for US coalition dependent on US access to Japanese air bases) youtu.be/-CcQ4jKn8aE?si…

The Red Shredding: On Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” | Los Angeles Review of Books, good deep dive into a wide range of issues, by Chris Fan 范致忠 of ⁦UCI Humanities⁩ (good choice of reviewer by the colleague in the film/tv section who commissioned & edited it) lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-re…

The '3 Body Problem' show just debuted on Netflix. A few months ago I dug into the crazy story behind the adaptation rights to Liu Cixin's novels and how Netflix ended up with one of China's most valuable IP properties.

thewirechina.com/2023/11/12/the…

Wow. bob davis talks to Nancy Pelosi, about China, Xi Jinping, DC lobbyists, and her controversial trip to Taiwan. Quite an interview. thewirechina.com/2024/03/17/nan…

Was thrilled to launch 'The Mountains Are High' at Asia Society NY earlier this week. Sold out of books after! The video is now up:
asiasociety.org/video/escape-d…

This was super interesting on historical origins of yellow peril and America's unique fears of China since 1880s

Last chance to sign up for my book launch at Asia Society in New York tonight, with Barbara Demick:
asiasociety.org/center-us-chin…

She clearly just moved Charlotte closer to be in frame. Once again, as with all of these dumb royal family stories in the Beeb, who gives a flying fart? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-685343…

'Without successful political structural reform, it is impossible for us to fully institute economic structural reform and the gains we have made in this area may be lost. ... The new problems that have cropped up in China's society will not be fundamentally resolved, and such…

Sitting farther and farther apart

I love what Alec Ash is doing with the China Books Review, including lists of upcoming books here: chinabooksreview.com/upcoming-china…

'China’s Lexicon of Digital Resistance'
Netizens on the Chinese internet have been using buzzwords and memes for decades, to express obliquely what they cannot directly. They show how online sentiment has evolved over 20 years.
Xiao Qiang's China Digital Times lexicon:
chinabooksreview.com/2024/03/07/chi…