This paper shows: people in the US and China see trade deficits as a power weakness. Americans who think China will overtake the US view bilateral trade deficits with China especially negatively (this holds for different political orientations and social-demographic backgrounds).

The Trump administration sees trade deficits as “national emergencies”. Ever wondered why people seem to dislike imports? Very happy that my paper "Mercantilism 2.0: American and Chinese Mass Public Opinions Toward Trade Balances" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌅📙 64.3 Power competition impacts both geopolitics and economic cooperation? 💱 These authors (🧵⬇️) explore if citizens in rising powers show more support for bilateral trade with survey-embedded experiments in 🇨🇳 and the 🇺🇸 🔗 buff.ly/Ja1ZKxm

China exports jump 8% in April despite tariffs https://www.ft.com/content/fd98d384-fa82-489e-8f50-0ff84214733c

Chinese exports to Europe will increase by 6% this year as a result of the Trump tariffs, the WTO says. Meanwhile, trade in goods between the US and China will plunge by 81% and as much as 91% without any exemption.

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Netherlands tightens US travel advice www.politico.eu/article/neth...

For a public opinion perspective on the discussion by Donald Trump of "fair and reciprocal" trade tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners cf. our studies with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social on the influence of reciprocity and alliances on public opinion on trade: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The nationalist turn has a huge impact on higher education and society. But the negative change is not inevitable. Denmark revoked its stance on international student recruitment. The Dutch discussion is chaotic, labelled as 'drowning in volatility' ⬇️ www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

to understand the 'green capitalism' part of how the US got here, read our @benbraun.bsky.social account: colliding macrofinancial regimes - when China's Big Green State meets Biden's Robust Derisking, there is one winner. New @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Trump administration has paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada but the case of tariffs on China could be a very different story. Cf. our paper below on why.

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Four years. I still can't believe we did nothing, as a country, for four years, pretended to tell ourselves that "Every Day is Jan. 6 Now" & the "Republic faces an existential threat," & just let them come back without any consequence at all. What a sad, deeply shameful & unserious country we are.

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🆕 Are citizens in declining powers less supportive of bilateral economic cooperation than those in rising powers? ↕️ Quynh Nguyen, @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and I explore this with survey-embedded experiments in 🇨🇳 and the 🇺🇸! More👉 bit.ly/4iIm6DG #China #USA

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Deeply honored that I was awarded an ERC grant "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage“ (POLEDUC)! Thanks a lot to the #ERCCoG, as well as to the panelists & reviewers for their time, constructive feedback, & for a pleasant intellectual discussion! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Very interesting paper. An important reminder that polisci and urban studies/development/city planning are highly connected. Congrats!

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Main findings: - Trade-offs between geoeconomic and development objectives vary across instruments - Sustainability-related instruments such as CBAM or EUDR are likely to be most detrimental for developing countries - EU makes little use of differential treatment to off-set such effects

Recent tweet by Katherine Tai twitter.com/AmbassadorTa... People don't like trade deficits. For a public opinion perspective on trade imbalances and U.S.-China power competition, please cf. my working paper on SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW ANALYSIS: Clean energy was China's top driver of economic growth in 2023, by @laurimy.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org 📈Clean energy investment was up +40% to a huge $890bn 🇨🇳Clean energy sectors pushed China's GDP growth in 2023 from 3% to 5.2% www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

🚨JOB OFFER🚨 Post Doc position in democracy studies at my chair at Kiel University. Starting date (ideally): 1 April 2024. Deadline: January 26, 2024. Job ad (in German) below. I am happy to answer questions! Don´t hesitate to get in touch. Please share! Polisky

2-months Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer fellowship at LMU Munich. two teams of fellows collaborate on real-world data science projects, aiming to create a meaningful impact for the social good. sites.google.com/view/dssgx-m...

Has inequality risen? Really helpful breakdown of the differences between Piketty, Saez & Zucman and Auten & Splinter from Bill Gale, Sam Thorpe & John Sabelhaus of Brookings www.brookings.edu/articles/mea...

Look I hate to defend Trump here but there's absolutely no way he's finished any book much less that one.

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Switzerland back in the 🇪🇺 Horizon program (on probation until the end of 2024)

If you use Apple’s podcasts app, you can find this great interview @erikvoeten.bsky.social did with Barbara Walter on the Israel-Hamas war here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

🚨The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th annual COMPTEXT conference is approaching - 20 December 2023. link: forms.gle/VrzhEzJEcTNd... This is a great conference that brings together scholars from across social and computational sciences. See more details here: www.comptextconference.org