I've wanted for a long time to write about how both the "China is a revisionist power" and "China is a defensive power" camps don't focus enough on the disconnect between China's self-perception and its behavior. Thanks to @thediplomat.com . thediplomat.com/2026/03/chin...

Do Europeans realize how condenscending China's elites are about them? I'm watching a Fudan professor on state TV give a talk about EU-China relations and...oh boy is it bad 1/n

Even if professors established a dictatorship in the classroom, students still wouldn't do the readings.... jamestown.org/program/nobo...

Are they NGOs or CCP operatives? A good example of how the CCP hides its influence over an organization through giving it a dual identity... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

I'm pleased to share this new article with co-author Zhu Zhang about why China's ruling institutions often operate with dual identities. We coin the term "institutional doubling." This one is for the real China governance nerds! @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.

What does the CCP say about America to its citizens? A thread based on my new study with Joshua Freedman 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Analysing 1,761 editorials about the US published between 2003–2022 in People's Daily, @chriscarothers.bsky.social & Joshua B. Freedman investigate CCP messaging about the US in the contemporary era. doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001528

Few Americans have opted to be immunized against the coronavirus so far this fall: Just over 7 percent of adults and 2 percent of children had received a Covid-19 vaccine as of Oct. 14 www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/h...

Me: prepare a 45-minute presentation. Academics: A two-hour presentation, got it. Senior academics: a completely unprepared presentation, got it.

I feature amazing work being done by @bnovak.bsky.social and @machinavelli.com

New article out! I discuss how autocrats often exploit natural language barriers to say racist and xenophobic things at home while playing to an international audience... www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the...

"The number of people who get paid from the U.S. Treasury but work for private businesses and nonprofits is now more than three times the entire on-payroll federal civilian workforce." Wow. www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the...

Why Polarization Won't Stop Washington's New Bipartisan Consensus on China By me and Taiyi Sun uscnpm.org/2023/10/05/w...

Yay, John Oliver and Colbert are back! I'm basic but I accept it...

I’m excited to share my 🚨new article🚨 with Sun Taiyi, Bipartisanship on China in a Polarized America, out now in International Relations.   We document the emergence of the “new China consensus” in DC – the idea that the US must compete with & counter China. Here is what we found… 🧵 tiny.cc/91nbvz

For Dictatorsky's second showcase of the week, we have this awesome paper by @andrewleber.bsky.social, @chriscarothers.bsky.social, and Matthew Reichert on the personalization of power & oversight in dictatorships. Polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....