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Our new episode w @goldkorn.bsky.social #RhymingChaos features Professor @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social. We talked about #Berlusconi's lessons for #Trump era, about the insecure strongmen, the origins of #authoritarianism and of course, about #MuskTrump www.rhymingchaos.com/p/if-we-had-...

A chat with Stacy Torres about her Chilean father's fear of tyranny and working as an academic in a world under attack from Trump, with me and @mariarepnikova.bsky.social

Our new Rhyming Chaos episode with @goldkorn is out now contrasting #Chilean dictatorship with contemporary #America. We interview Stacy Torres, a sociologist and a daughter of a Chilean immigrant who taught her how to be careful: www.rhymingchaos.com/p/dont-open-...

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Tomorrow at 4pm ET, join me and @mariarepnikova.bsky.social for a Zoom group chat about how we're getting by in Trump and Musk's America.

Another excellent Rhyming Chaos episode, 1st co-hosted by @goldkorn.bsky.social & @mariarepnikova.bsky.social, truly global, fittingly as the guest is @nasredinhoja.bsky.social, editor at large of @globalvoices.org www.rhymingchaos.com/p/dont-shoot... , good stuff on China & many other places

In addition to liking and learning from multiple episodes of Rhyming Chaos, enjoyed this updated "about" page for it now that @mariarepnikova.bsky.social has joined to co-host it with originator @goldkorn.bsky.social www.rhymingchaos.com/about

New Rhyming Chaos: @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I interview @nasredinhoja.bsky.social

Excited to be part of the team with @goldkorn.bsky.social!

@asiapolicy.asiasociety.org Center for China Analysis’s new website measures how China is viewed by the rest of the world, especially the Global South. Learn more about the site today with @zhubochubo.bsky.social, @mariarepnikova.bsky.social, Cindy Yu, and @neilthomas123.bsky.social.

The Trump-Musk junta and their goons, supported by cowards like Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, are threatening freedom of expression at universities and in the media. Here are some lessons from China and Russia, from @mariarepnikova.bsky.social.

Enjoyed recording this with @goldkorn.bsky.social -- long-time expert in everything #China who happens to also have Jewish-Latvian roots ha. His podcast is awesome, and what a great name: Rhyming Chaos.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

“They need us” and we don’t really need them is basically #trump era foreign policy 2.0

So #China is now a motivator for withdrawing from international orgs like WHO. Every policy to come is a pure transactional logic. No vision. #trumpreturn

Today feels like a month already. What’s everyone’s coping strategies?

Brother knows me like no other. Look at this #Navalny art piece he gave me.

Sassy and I wish you a vigorous week!

I don't quite get the book lists for the year. Tell me instead about the writing you read over and over and how it moved you, or a poem that you can't forget.

Babushka Galina tells everyone to carry on and be happy.

Hello Boston.

This is wonderful! Assigning.

#GlobalCommunication scholars: please share new exciting work on global cultural production and reception + communication of geopolitics. Teaching a #PhD seminar next term and hope to assign your latest work! @bilgeyesil.bsky.social and Fan Yang's latest books are already on the syllabus!

🎙️ Voice for CHOICE #49 is here! What will the 2024 US election mean for US-China relations and global power dynamics? Join @vivianwu.bsky.social & @mariarepnikova.bsky.social for expert insights! 👇

How does the world view China? Kudos to Andrew Chubb on his new @asiasociety.org product Global Public Opinion on China As China rose, its average favorability in worldwide opinion polls fell, and faster in recent years 2002: +33 2007: +22 2012: +14 2017: +8 2022: -10 But... 1/20

#China #academics and friends, who is around NYC for Christmas/New Year? Would love to meet up. Any cool events going on?

Unbelievable. And very plausible in our Trumpian Americaland, isn't?

In case, you are wondering what's happening on "the other side," a newly minted PhD posted a lovely photo sharing her accomplishment, and attracted immense hatred and dissection of her topic. Well she also garnered support, but still: x.com/yhdistyminen...

Drawing on data gathered from qualitative interviews with Chinese students, Zhe Wang & Xuerui Hu explore the international higher education fever gripping China's middle-class families #China #HigherEducation doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Sassy and I are figuring things out.

Happy Thanksgiving America!

If you could go away for a few months to write and get inspired where would you go?

A very cool #Asia job at the University of Toronto for junior scholars! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Great list!

He would get tenure in no time :)

Teaching #GlobalAuthoritarianism this coming semester, and wondering whether to assign a novel again at the start of class, or excerpts from #Navalny book. What are the latest novels that capture our times you would recommend?