Once accepted into college, Chinese rural students perform equally as well, if not better, than their urban counterparts. Rural students also earn a 6.2 per cent wage premium compared to their urban counterparts in their first job after graduation. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My latest for The Diplomat on Olaf Scholz’s recent China visit and why framing the issue of car data sharing through the lens of reciprocity is problematic. thediplomat.com/2024/05/the-da…

What impact have the CCP's media influence campaigns had on neighboring countries? Tomorrow at 8am EDT, join Kenton Thibaut, Muhammad Zulfikar, Maxim Tereschenko, Asia Fact Check Lab's Chih Te Lee, and FH's Sarah Cook to answer this question and more. RSVP ⬇️ freedomhouse.org/event/forging-…

How was news of the Trump shooting controlled on Chinese social media? As usual, censors removed narratives either too sympathetic to the US or too nationalistic, to mitigate the influence of public opinion on official PRC response. Our DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social piece here: dfrlab.org/2024/08/01/chi…

The burden and accountability for explaing support for the UN Cybercrime Convention is and will be on US DOJ and EU DGJUST. I simply do not see how States that are already party to the Budapest Convention get anything positive out of this new, Russia-led initiative.

for any democratic governments still on the fence on this, i urge you not to be complacent. take, for example, article 6. it proposes to be a safety net for human rights. dear lawyers, read this. would you rely on it? weak sauce at best. unconvincing & ultimately worthless.

🇹🇼 September 12 | 🕗 8:00 a.m. ET Join Scowcroft Center’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative for a discussion on the importance of narrative warfare in Taiwan, its role in strengthening the island’s security and its potential to undermine it. Register now ⬇️ bit.ly/4dY8G3l

My new article of just came online in Critical Asian Studies (and it was online when we were having APSA, what nice timing)! See the article here: tandfonline.com/eprint/CIFZMXN… In the article I discuss the important but rarely asked question: how do propagandists understand propaganda? 1/6

Please join me DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social and my colleagues Doublethink Lab and Scowcroft Center’s IPSI for a discussion on the importance of narratives, influence, and information in strengthening Taiwan’s security - and their potential to undermine it. Register now ⬇️ rb.gy/rucxkv

IN TWO DAYS: Don't miss this important event on narrative warfare in Taiwan, featuring Doublethink Lab's TTCAT 🇺🇦🧋 and the Atlantic Council's Kenton Thibaut, Eddie Paruchabutr, and Markus Garlauskas!

Look, I talk a lot about compute, but we're seeing many nations now force-feeding it without considering the bigger picture—some call it "sovereign AI." The idea that AI ambitions can be solved just by giving NVIDIA more money is misguided. We need strategies beyond compute. 1/

This piece "The sovereignty trap" by Konstantinos Komaitis- [email protected], Esteban Ponce de León, Kenton Thibaut, Trisha Ray and Kevin Klyman also makes many great points: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotech-… 6/6