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Unpacking China's Global AI Governance Plan | TechPolicy.Press Justin Hendrix spoke to Graham Webster, a lecturer and research scholar at Stanford University and the Editor-in-Chief of the DigiChina Project.

On Saturday, July 26, three days after the Trump administration published its AI action plan, China’s foreign ministry released that country’s action plan for global AI governance. To learn more about it, @justinhendrix.bsky.social spoke to Stanford DigiChina editor-in-chief @gwbstr.com:

参政の得票増、投票増えた自治体ほど　「変化を求めた投票の可能性」：朝日新聞 今回の参院選は参政党が得票を大きく伸ばしたが、朝日新聞が開票結果を分析すると、3年前の参院選と比べ、比例区の投票者数が増えた市区町村ほど得票の増え方が大きかったことがわかった。専門家は、新たに政治に…

In Japan's upper house election last month, the two "populist" parties did best where turnout increased most, suggesting mobilization of voters frustrated with establishment parties. Municipality-level analysis in this article, with a quote from me (in Japanese). ⬇️ digital.asahi.com/articles/AST...

The hidden mental health cost of climate distress New research reveals that Bangladeshi adolescents in flood-prone areas are more likely to experience anxiety and depression, with girls disproportionately impacted.

Study sheds light on an emerging psychological health crisis that disproportionately affects girls. The study in The Lancet Planetary Health is among the first to quantify how repeated climate stressors impact the psychological well-being and future outlook of adolescents in low-resource settings.

China struggles to break its addiction to manufacturing Local governments are steering investment into new factories, adding to overcapacity and eroding profit margins

Local government officials, desperate to meet their GDP growth targets, are steering investment into new factories, driving excessive price competition. www.ft.com/content/f797... via @financialtimes.com

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Today is your last chance to take advantage of our introductory ebook sale! ⌛

Get 50% off of any ebooks purchased directly from sup.org, offer ends today.

#ReadUP #BookSky #ebooks

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We're looking forward to seeing it IRL 🙌

Unspoken push factors behind Thai-Cambodia conflict - Asia Times It has been two months since tensions between Cambodia and Thailand flared up again. This most recent escalation was sparked by the death of a Cambodian

The Thai-Cambodia border conflict "is the latest act in a centuries-old drama shaped by shifting alliances, national sentiments, colonial legacies, and political opportunism."

Analysis by Soksamphoas Im, our former Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia, via Asia Times.

China's military: How it went from obsolete to world-class Battle Lines · Episode

🎧 “China is catering to its strengths and minimizing its weaknesses,” says APARC Faculty Affiliate Oriana Skylar Mastro on the @telegraphnews.bsky.social Battle Lines podcast. She joined host Venetia Rainey to break down China's military transformation and the #PLA’s missile buildup.

Japan’s Upper House Election delivers mixed results with big implications Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist undercurrents in a political moment demanding clarity and strength, writes Phillip Lipscy.

Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist undercurrents in a political moment demanding clarity and strength, writes Phillip Lipscy.

Summit explores collaborative solutions to Southeast Asia’s ‘paradox of sustainability’ Four hundred experts in policy, academia, business, and science met to explore greater collaboration between the U.S. and Southeast Asia to fulfill the fast-growing region’s competing promises of econ...

“In Southeast Asia, the problem of sustainability is a real and urgent one,” said @hooverinstitution.bsky.social Director Condoleezza Rice. “This is a region that deserves our attention and our partnership.”
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/summit-...
#Indonesia #Singapore #SustainableDevelopment

The China Hawks’ China Hawk - The Wire China Elbridge Colby, under secretary for defense policy at the Pentagon, is arguably Taiwan’s most powerful friend in Washington. But if China does make good on its threats to “re-unify” the island by…

Who is Elbridge Colby, and how could he reshape U.S. defense policy and influence the American military's China strategy?

@thewirechina.bsky.social cover story, with comments by APARC Faculty Affiliate Oriana Skylar Mastro buff.ly/O0xXlbh

Stanford Scholar Reveals How Talent Development Strategies Shape National Futures Stanford's Gi-Wook Shin reveals four talent strategies and urges Korea to rethink its global competitiveness strategy.

The Korea Daily interviews APARC's Gi-Wook Shin about his new book, THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS — now available from @stanfordpress.bsky.social

China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S. Recent drills near Japan reflect China’s ambitions to extend its navy’s reach and exert greater influence, in the Pacific and beyond.

Recent exercises involving two Chinese aircraft carriers model how Beijing could use its growing carrier fleet to project military power into the Pacific and pressure U.S.-aligned Asian neighbors.

@nytimes.com Chris Buckley reports, including comments by Oriana Skylar Mastro. buff.ly/3061NAm

Japan upper house election: How events unfolded PM Ishiba vows to stay on; Opposition parties rule out coalition

Japan election: With the ruling coalition having lost its majority in the more powerful lower house in a election last autumn, the outcome puts PM Shigeru Ishiba in a tough spot as he tries to continue tariff negotiations with the U.S.
https://trib.al/w9CwEgH

Photo: Gi-Wook Shin in his office and a cover of his book, The Four Talent Giants. Text quote: "Talent Portfolio Theory views a country’s talent development as capitalizing on the capabilities of its human and social capital. It also explains [...] how its talent portfolio, like a financial portfolio, is diversified and rebalanced over time."

Text quote: "What really matters is not just the current stockpile of talent but also a constant healthy flow of human and social capital that will continue to fill and improve the talent pool and its capacity [...] Stock is important for the present, but flow determines the future. In today’s world, a flow that is transnational in nature is a particularly keen way for a country to ensure a robust talent pool."

Text quote: "It is, therefore, imperative to consider multiple layers of talent available for use — domestic, diasporic, and foreign — each with a different capacity and potential of human and social capital, and as both stock and flow. Based on such understanding of talent, I identify four main methods by which a country can harness talent across these various dimensions: brain train, brain gain, brain circulation, and brain linkage."

Cover of the book The Four Talent Giants. Text: "Now available from Stanford University Press" and "Receive 20% off at sup.org with code SHIN20"

Brain drain. Geopolitical tensions. Demographic shifts. To address these risks, countries must treat skilled talent like a financial portfolio, says Stanford sociologist Gi-Wook Shin. His book, THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS, is out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Get 20% off w/ code SHIN20: bit.ly/3S4jUdM

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😎 Looking for summer reads? Explore APARC books on topical issues in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations, featuring policy-relevant research and analysis by our scholars. Our books are distributed by @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Plus: all SUP ebooks are 50% off this month! buff.ly/6jW4i3N

A new episode of #WorldClassPodcast is now available. @larrydiamond.bsky.social of @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social and @mcfaulmike.bsky.social discuss how democracy is doing around the world, including in the United States, Poland, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Taiwan Studies Students and Scholars Gather at Stanford to Advance New The North American Taiwan Studies Association’s 2025 conference invited participants to embrace the “otherwise,” elevating overlooked aspects of Taiwan and reimagining the field of Taiwan studies to…

APARC's Taiwan Program was delighted to co-host the North American #TaiwanStudies Association’s 2025 conference, where scholars and students applied the “otherwise” framework to reconsider issues ranging from democratic resilience in the age of AI to alternative futures in Asia. buff.ly/ZNhCDb0

Medical Tourism into Japan: Can Japan Ride the Big Wave? | Stanford Law School Shin Koike LLM, student fellow, Center for Law and the Biosciences Introduction Medical tourism—traveling to another country to receive medical care

Japan is ramping up efforts to attract medical tourists, focusing on language support and international cooperation. But how will it ensure ethical standards are maintained? Read more in a recent blog post by Stanford Law School's Center for Law and the Biosciences: law.stanford.edu/2025/06/18/m...

Shanjun Li to Lead New Research Program on Sustainability and Energy SCCEI's newest research program addresses the pressing sustainability challenges facing China and examines their broader global implications. Grounded in rigorous empirical analysis and economic…

Great to see the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions' newest research program on sustainability and energy transition in China taking off, led by Shanjun Li, a senior fellow at @fsi.stanford.edu and professor at @stanforddoerr.bsky.social. buff.ly/2aj2coI

Unregulated rare earth mining in Myanmar, directed by Chinese enterprises, is poisoning the Kok and at least three other rivers that flow through Thailand. Hannah Beech, a New York Times reporter based in Bangkok, spoke to locals about the effects. https://trib.al/kIxGc12

한국 미래는 글로벌 인재 확보가 좌우 - 미주중앙일보 신기욱 스탠퍼드대 교수 ‘인재 4대 강국’ 출간 중국·일본·인도·호주 4개국 인재 육성 전략 비교 분석 이민 완화·유학생 유입 확대 한국, 인재 다양성 확보해야 실리콘밸리서 존재감 두각 인도와 네트워크 구축 필요

South Korea's future depends on securing global talent, APARC's Gi-Wook Shin tells The Korea Daily, sharing key takeaways from his new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, The Four Talent Giants, which examines how talent development strategies drive economic powers in Asia and beyond. buff.ly/vFbdS2B

🚨New Paper🚨

How can governments sustain compliance improvements when institutions falter and ad hoc enforcement fades?

Our paper offers a fresh answer to this governance puzzle.

I'm so glad it overcame rounds of blocking and found a great home @psjeditor.bsky.social!

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Sociologist Gi-Wook Shin Illuminates How Strategic Human Resource In his new book, The Four Talent Giants, Shin offers a new framework for understanding the rise of economic powerhouses by examining the distinct human capital development strategies used by Japan,…

📊 Think of talent development like an investment portfolio — diverse, dynamic, strategic.

📘 In THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS — now out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social — Gi-Wook Shin shows how Japan, China, India, and Australia used this mindset to gain power and what others can learn. bit.ly/4TalentGiants

（3ページ目）元米交渉官が明かすトランプ関税の真因　アメリカが国際貿易から「退場」する日｜政治・経済｜中央公論.jp めざすは「リセット」 ――共和党の第1次ドナルド・トランプ政権（2017〜21年）から民主党のジョー・バイデン政権（21 〜25年）の途中まで6年間、日本などとの通商交渉を担当されました。その経験に基づき、アメリカはいまや自ら築き上げた貿易体制から「...

The Aug issue of Chuo Koron features an interview with veteran U.S. trade official Michael Beeman, our former visiting scholar, in which he explains how America's deep political polarization is driving its zero-sum trade policy — the subject of his APARC-published book, WALKING OUT.

Cover for a summary of a study on racism "denial" in Asia. Photo: anti-racism demonstration in South Korea.

The research question: How do Asian states understand and talk about race and racial discrimination? Illustration: silhouette heads in different colors.

Filling in the gap: a sentence summarizing the study. Background: logo of the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.

A slide with a quote from the study about the findings.

A new study by APARC's @j-nakahara.bsky.social & Gi-Wook Shin unveils patterns of #racism denial in #Asia. Analyzing UN reports submitted by 16 Asian countries over 45 yrs, they present a novel framework for understanding racism and racial discourse in non-Western contexts. Read on: buff.ly/nXawgx5

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Proud of you and looking forward to seeing all you'll achieve next.

YouTube video by Stanford APARC The Eastern Triumvirate: How Russia, China, and North Korea Are Reshaping Global Power

🎞️ ICYMI Seong-Hyon Lee,
@josephtorigian.bsky.social, and @hooverinstitution.bsky.social Ria Roy joined us to examine the deepening China-Russia-North Korea geopolitical alignment amid intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. Now available on our YouTube channel ⤵️ youtu.be/JGD9_QH-sAo

Our article on #racism #denial in #Asia is now available online. We develop a typology to examine Global South discourses of racism in the #UnitedNations #CERD context. Happy to discuss (+ feel free to DM/email me for a PDF)! doi.org/10.1177/0896... #AcademicTwitter #newPub

Fabulous news from @stanfordpress.bsky.social 🎉
Check out the titles in our APARC/SUP joint series, including the just-published The FOUR TALENT GIANTS, by GI-Wook Shin: www.sup.org/books/series...