Also very happy to discuss the broader significance of this latest Jake Sullivan-Wang Yi meeting, the 5th in 18 months, with Liu Xin刘欣 on CGTN last night:

After six years and 220 Chaguan columns, it’s time to leave Beijing. It has been an adventure and a privilege. My next beat will include a dose of China, happily: I’ll be writing a new weekly geopolitics column in The Economist. Column number 5 for me economist.com/china/2024/08/…

When in Beijing in July, I visited ⁦⁦CISS Tsinghua⁩ afternoon to record this podcast interview, discussing at length my “origin story” as a scholar of Chinese law, and why I care so deeply about preserving a space for US-China scholarly exchange: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cis…

Wonderful news! Prof. Chang is a truly great scholar

I am thrilled to announce the inaugural class of undergraduate Student Fellows of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations! All 6 seniors at the University of Pennsylvania, and pictured below, you can read more about them on our website at global.upenn.edu/future-of-us-c…

#FF My friend Neysun Mahboubi directs the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. He’s doing vital work to cultivate America’s next generation of China scholars and advocate for greater people-to-people exchanges between Washington and Beijing. global.upenn.edu/global-initiat…

My friend Iza Ding asked me if I know any good pickleball courts in Philly so I had to send her this

prcleader.org/post/organizin… Ryan Hass: "America’s unique advantages are its domestic dynamism, its global alliance network, and its unique convening power to galvanize collective action on global challenges." #smart #US #China #policy

24 hours left, not too late to wrap up your summertime research and writing projects

"Alas, the ideological struggle and fervour, those constant themes of Mao’s era that Deng tried very hard to bury, are back with a vengeance. Deng’s guiding philosophy that pursuing economic development should be the party’s central task is rarely mentioned 30 years on[.]"

Thank you to Ali Wyne of Crisis Group for this smart op-ed on why understanding the history of US-China relations since the era of engagement began is so important thewirechina.com/2024/09/01/why… The Wire China

In Memoriam: Professor Frederick Schauer, a ‘Giant’ in the Legal Academy | University of Virginia School of Law law.virginia.edu/news/202409/me…

“The only good reason to go into academia is to seek the truth and speak the truth. If someone's not going to do that, he [or she] should go get a respectable job.” 👍👍

Warmly welcome political scientists to Philadelphia

For those who were doubting about it...economist.com/china/2024/09/…

Why have U.S.-China relations sunk to this point, what are the major flashpoints ahead, and what are the implications for Europe? Thank you to ⁦Marilisa Anastasopoulou⁩ for hearing me out on these issues, in a podcast interview we recorded in Athens in April: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ti-…

A must listen!

An important piece that speaks to many true difficulties. OTOH, just off the top of my head I could list many dozens of Western scholars who did fieldwork in China this summer, doing the best we could under the new conditions. Would have been good to include for a fuller picture.

Political scientists missing out on the nicest day in Philly all week

There are no low-level jobs in publishing, which is the most noble profession of all. (This has been a very niche tweet.)