Ketian Vivian Zhang

So the paperback of my first book is finally coming out this July. It is much more affordable now at $35 (same with the electronic version). You can pre-order it here @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

If you are at ISA, please stop by our roundtable where wonderful scholars such as Xiaoyu Pu, Tyler Jost, Abe Newman, Dan Drezner, and Gloria Xiong will discuss my book, China's Gambit. Time is this Sunday at 4pm. Location is Stevens Salon A-5, Chicago Hilton.

Our second fellowship cohort webinar series concludes later today with this important, conversation featuring Naima Green-Riley and Rosie Levine, moderated by Amy Gadsden. Please join us on the live zoom at 4 pm or catch the YouTube recording anytime at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYW_...

One week to go before the application deadline of this Friday, February 28! Please circulate this call widely to relevant potential applicants, to help us benefit from as strong and diverse an applicant pool as possible.

We are delighted to publish working papers by the National Security team of this year's fellowship cohort, now available at global.upenn.edu/future-of-us.... Please join us for a live webinar featuring these authors TODAY from 6-7 pm ET, registration link at the QR code on the poster below:

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Happy to share the H-Diplo roundtable review of my first book. I appreciate the stimulating conversations with Zeno Leoni, Isaac B. Kardon, Gloria Xiong, Xiaoyu Pu, and Yong Deng. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Some thinking here w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social based on excellent @wired.com reporting, among others: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The cognitive dissonance of arriving in Taiwan as an American and seeing human rights celebrated front and center, while my actual home (and Taiwan’s main ally) is doing what it can to scrub human rights and equality from our values.

⏰ STARTING SOON | 10:00 am PT

What is happening in Syria? Join us this morning to hear @4bassam.bsky.social in conversation with @wazirelkif.bsky.social about the road to, dynamics, and consequences of Syria's transition.

DETAILS & ZOOM: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/syria...

What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War Astra Taylor, writer & activist

As a visiting scholar at the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, next week I’ll be giving a virtual lecture critiquing the contradictions at the heart of the “national interest”--free to register! havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/event/jackson/

We are thrilled to issue the call for applications (global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...) for our third fellowship cohort, made possible by generous support from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and the Henry Luce Foundation. Applications are due February 28.

Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.

As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.

It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/

Here is video of the terrific discussion featuring our 2nd fellowship cohort’s Climate & Environment team @michaeldavidson.bsky.social, @joannalewis.bsky.social, @katelogan.bsky.social, presenting their working papers, expertly moderated by @greenlawchina.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZT...

15 years ago I arrived in this country for college. A LOT has changed since then.

Thanks!!

Sharing my new book on China's coercion, which just came out with Cambridge U Press. It argues that China uses coercion to "kill the chicken to scare the monkey" but is also constrained by economic and geo costs. Econ interdependence constrains & enables China: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...