Hopefully we'll learn more about the PLA reorganization as more information trickles out about the new arrangements. Some scattered hot takes:

1) My instinct is that this reorganization was not triggered by any one thing, but reflects the fact that

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🇨🇳 China “is advancing an alternative vision for global governance,” Daniel J. Kritenbrink, US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, warned last week at an ACGlobalChina conference.

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David Shullman interviews Michael Schiffer who explains how the US focuses on promoting “resilient and secure digital ecosystems” with its partners throughout the Global South

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The Atlantic Council Middle East Initiatives's Jonathan Fulton discusses how there is 'still a sense that the Middle East has huge economic opportunities [for China]' in the regional lightning discussion on MENA.

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Tune in at 3pm ET for a discussion on China and Latin America from ACGlobalChina's China in the Global South conference, featuring Victoria Chonn-Ching, Parsifal D'Sola 鹏程, Robert Evan Ellis, Margaret Myers, and Pepe Zhang.

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Panel 2 on China-Africa kicks off led by Jane Munga

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Keough School of Global Affairs is excited to co-host the CHINA IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH conference w/ David Shullman ACGlobalChina on Feb 21-22!

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The politics of personnel is central to a regime's power. New research looks at how China's post-Mao leaders instigated a bureaucratic-personnel transformation, presaging reform and opening.

But why were Mao-era elite dethroned? Look to Mao and Stalin's clashing track record🧵

China's structural transition away from the property sector to manufacturing, particularly in the green energy sector, could create global fractionalization as countries look to defend priority industries, writes Niels Graham.

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For those in town making choices on security assistance to Ukraine, if you need more reasons, then I have a warning to share with you about the Kremlin. I feel that I have a duty to warn. /1