I've been studying various aspects of #protest & contentious #politics in #China for 25 years.

What's happening now is novel, interesting, & potentially quite important. But we need to be careful about drawing conclusions or making predictions. A🧵:
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Centre for Geopolitics National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Learning to love big brother: Chinese attitudes toward online privacy af... youtu.be/racIUYhkMH8?si… via YouTube

movie theater chains in Indonesia doing 100 million $ IPOs and Mr Joko Anwar started his own production co. i just had a baby so he is not ready for siksa kubur yet but big things happening in indonesian movies these days 👇👇

Then & Now, Nanjing/Nanking南京, Xuanwu Lake玄武湖.
Credit of 2024：LRB@1015767650

We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dylan Loh about his insightful new book “China’s Rising Foreign Ministry”.

Read here: buff.ly/3UxyYBl

Plus ca change...

Oops. Looks like a pretty basic error happened here. On par with announcing the ROC National Anthem at the White House during Hu Jintao’s 2005 (or was it 2006?) visit….

Indonesia is a great, but often overlooked, market for and producer of cinematic art:

Things are looking bright for the movie biz in Indonesia, with 2024 shaping up to be another big year for locally produced content. I break it down 👇👇

thediplomat.com/2024/05/2023-w…

New article on important topic.

Looks fascinating:

Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4duwKvi

Revising history manuscript for audience of management scholars

See also this two-part explainer series:

Part 1: youtu.be/w5j5cPjd1CM

Part 2: youtu.be/pnYE-hg45Jo

Two-part social science explanation/analysis of the campus #protests in the #UnitedStates :

Part 1: youtu.be/w5j5cPjd1CM

Part 2: youtu.be/pnYE-hg45Jo

Centre for Geopolitics Northwestern UC Berkeley UT Austin

Such a bargaining response is rare (and constrained by resources).

See my thread on the #protests for more:

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Video now available:

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As more #protests have sprung up around the #UK (including at Cambridge University), it's useful to keep the following in mind:

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Incredibly insightful discussion and analysis from the always stellar Daniel Lee:

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