This is a must read from Feng Yujun, a professor at Peking University.

'When it comes to decision-making, Putin is trapped in an information cocoon, thanks to having been in power so long. The Russian president and his national-security team lack access to accurate intelligence'

Fantastic insights on engaging policy stakeholders effectively from several of our Keough School experts this afternoon, including Maura Policelli; Josefina Echavarría Alvarez and Laurie Nathan of our Kroc Institute; Susan Ostermann; and Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 🇺🇦🎗️.

US Treasury sounds alarm on financial strains facing developing countries reut.rs/3vMps58

At age 17, she was rejected from college.
At age 25, her mother died from the disease.
At age 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English.
At age 27, she got married.
Her husband abused her. Her daughter was born.
At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe…

Learn more about our new doctoral programs in sustainable development and peace studies. Both programs will enroll students beginning in fall 2025. go.nd.edu/70f5a3

Are we better off than four years ago? If you were alive in 2020, you already know the answer. Let's ask a different question.

Yesterday, we played hooky and took in the SFGiants home opener! 🤩

This is so unbelievably sad: 'A delegation of Palestinian and other Arab politicians praised China’s policies in Xinjiang during a visit to the northwestern region.'
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Wow! In San Fran they lock up the coffee and gum ⁦Walgreens⁩! 😬

Great to see my book #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica at the Columbia Univ Press booth today at ISA!! 🤓

Look, fellow ISA researchers, the time as come to stop reading academic papers word-for-word at like an audio book! 😫

Instead, just prepare a few slides and present your work as simply as possible in clear language… 👏👏

China Policy Monitor No. 1589

Hackers indicted for targeting U.S. officials, companies;
Five Chinese and 1 Pakistani killed in suicide bombing;
Foreign consulting firms a 'cover' to steal state secrets...

Editor: Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 🇺🇦🎗️
Read here: bit.ly/3xtt4cw

I got my hands on a thousand files about training programs that China offers to foreign government officials. For Fikra Forum | منتدى فكرة Washington Institute I argue there are clear evidence revealing Beijing intention to export Chinese governance preferences & practices. washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

China Policy Monitor No. 1588

China, Russia, Iran hold joint naval drills;
Blinken: U.S. will defend the Philippines against China;
China & Russia to put nuclear power plant on moon;
China has ramped up espionage campaigns...

Editor: Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 🇺🇦🎗️
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In China's IR, Yan Xuetong warns against fewer foreign faculty and students, a decline in int'l conferences, diminished participation in global IR, reduced contributions from in'l authors, limited coverage of global IR, & a slowdown in translations.
eastisread.com/p/yan-xuetong-…

This really is quite astonishing. I hope Sachs is getting a sackload of money from the Russians for spewing this nonsense, as the alternative explanation is that he is a delusional conspiracy theorist, completely out of his mind. Tbf, it could be both.

Curious about the impact the repression of intellectuals had on China as a whole?🤔

In World Development Zeng Zhaojin & I found significant negative correlations between the % of victims in a county & its level of edu & economic performance in 2000.👇

doi.org/10.1016/j.worl…

Congressman Jamie Raskin tried to give a speech at Univ. of Maryland on democracy and 'the threat to reason in the 21st Century.”

It was relentlessly heckled and drowned out by people protesting Israel's invasion of Gaza.

The speech was ultimately shut down by the university…