Juliet Lu (she/her/hers)

China's policies to advance vehicle remanufacturing Targeted subsidies, industrial zones and funding are propelling the vehicle remanufacturing sector

China adopted the circular economy
as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...

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Late notice but China PhD Students and recent PhDs: consider applying to one of these excellent Global Affairs Canada positions!

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A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

People keep asking me so I'm reposting (I'm not organizing, some amazing CAPE folks are)

Talk on Taiwan on March 4th, 1-2:30

Chris Horton, an old China friend and accomplished journalist, will be talking on his new book Ghost Nation - please come!
UBC Vancouver, Choi building 120

@sppga.ubc.ca
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These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike against JBS anyway. Excellent Mother Jones x Food and Environment Reporting Network collab thefern.org/2026/02/thes...

It’s a Sunday Colin calm down you’ve been ahead of the game since you were 11

She’s 👆🏼on the 👃🏼

British Columbians will pay to electrify North Coast mining, LNG projects | The Narwhal Energy minister’s order could exempt North Coast transmission line customers from paying millions

More subsidies for fossil fuels, this one paid by BC Hydro customers. And because these contracts signed by governments and public agencies are not made public, they also undermine democratic accountability. #LNG
thenarwhal.ca/bc-public-to...

But how is it we humans evolved the universal trait of needing to put raspberries on our fingers before eating them?

We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works."

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...on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So we placed the sign in the window. ..."
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending ...."
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People Over Papers - Report ICE Activity Report and track ICE activity in your community. A community-driven platform to document immigration enforcement.

Get everyone you know following these folks:

iceout.org/en/

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations.

www.standwithminnesota.com

Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.

@cape-aag.bsky.social When is the party for 2026?!

this logic is so toxic

As Carney engages China, beware the bogeyman tropes The threat of Chinese foreign interference is exaggerated and used as a scare tactic to resist better relations with Beijing.

The biggest challenge facing Prime Minister Mark Carney when he travels to the People's Republic of China this week is not the obstructionism of Chinese officials, but the determination of some Canadians to ensure that he fails in his mission.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

The way ICE officers approached the vehicle involved in today's shooting was counter to their training, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. The official said ICE officers are trained: — never to approach a vehicle from the front; — to approach vehicles or possibly armed people in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury or cross-fire; — not to shoot at a moving vehicle; — only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death. ICE officers are also instructed that firing at a vehicle will not make it stop moving in the direction of the officer.

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.

This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.

I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

Info on the Canada Impact & Research Training program for PhD and Postdoctoral fellows:
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Indeed! One that weakens the influence of America and its allies, threatens the future safety of their citizens (while likely having no effect on drug addiction), and adds to the costs of global governance.

Exactly. One thing to do, though it narrows the issue, is counter the 'America first' component of coverage. This will make Americans less safe, cost them so much more. It is unrelated to the opiate crisis - Trump has other primary motivations - and won't make Americans safer from addiction.

Sick

As someone who has studied the history of drug wars this is not just about drugs and we are far far less safe when leaders act lawlessly under that guise.

Sounds like you're referring to this, and yes totally:
sa·pi·o·sex·u·al
/ˌsāpēōˈsekSH(əw)əl/
adjective: finding intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.
noun: a person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.

My lame response was to donate (again) to Doctors without Borders but I'm open to suggestions as to what else to do. action.msf.ca/site/Donatio...

Gaza no longer in famine after aid access improves, hunger monitor says There is no longer famine in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said on Friday, after access for humanitarian and commercial food deliveries improved following a fragile October 10 ceasefire in the war bet...

It's shocking how little Gaza is front page news. Famine is an extreme status, an absolutely unliveable situation, moving out of that category doesn't mean much at all. The region is still teetering on the edge of barely surviving and the world has moved on.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

Melissa Hortman's story reveals why I loved the promise and was disappointed by the reality of Obama.
Hers was a life of grassroots organizing. A ground-up approach is especially challenging in today's America but I think potentially especially transformative.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...