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Nice article from The Economist on the cross-cultural linguistic difficulties in US-China relations.

Meritocracy is needed everywhere - the question is what kind and to what degree.

This piece dovetails with my earlier analysis on the rapid deterioration of China-North Korea relations (lnkd.in/gBV9qHxd)

On Chinese quantum computers. "During your correspondent’s visit, which was agreed on in advance, the company panicked at the sight of a foreigner, abruptly cancelled interviews and notified the police." www.economist.com/business/202...

Goodbye to Small Yard, High Fence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

"Successful historic episodes of using trade to make and keep foreign policy friends have involved facing down domestic opposition."

"Further disrupting supply chains and business models without fully understanding what the Biden administration has attempted in this space… would work against U.S. technology leadership."

A great piece by @fengzhang.bsky.social:"a deeper and potentially more destabilising dimension of India-China rivalry. Some scholars call it a “positional rivalry” for leadership in Asia." Check out my book with Ganguly/Thompson on this Sino-Indian positional rivalry in Asia: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

My latest on Sino-Indian relations from the China-India Brief of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. I argue that China and India are engaged in a double rivalry, and three scenarios are possible as Trump returns to the presidency.

Latest from Professor Yan Xuetong at Tsinghua. China’s leaders do not look at Trump with fear. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

My new podcast with CSIS's ChinaPower on China-North Korea relations.

By ‘helping’ us, technology risks making us intellectually and morally lazier. So true!

Very much agree with the gist of this piece.

My choice of two China studies books of the year, from two of my most admired archival historians.

Bipolarity vs Multipolarity @proflind.bsky.social

If you take China away out of that group, the main "strength" the others have is their ability to destroy things and their willingness to throw their populations into a charnel house. The US has a far better hand and, though it is in the process of misplaying that hand, retains enormous resilience.