Feng Zhang

I did a podcast on trust in Chinese foreign policy with Severin de Wit's excellent TrustTalk podcast.

It's available:
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✔️ On Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/eDHkw8tz
✔️ On Spotify: lnkd.in/eTRNsiCz
✔️ On the TrustTalk YouTube channel: lnkd.in/e-i-e9fr

America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation How linguistic differences complicate relations between the great powers

Nice article from The Economist on the cross-cultural linguistic difficulties in US-China relations.

Opinion | Does America Need More Meritocracy? Debating Vivek Ramaswamy’s pressure-cooker vision.

Meritocracy is needed everywhere - the question is what kind and to what degree.

Opinion | China-North Korea relations start the new year on a new low Between Kim’s outpourings to Putin and hardly a mention of Xi’s greeting is a message: North Korea cares little about saving face over relations with Beijing.

This piece dovetails with my earlier analysis on the rapid deterioration of China-North Korea relations (lnkd.in/gBV9qHxd)

China is catching up with America in quantum technology But its state-heavy innovation model comes with risks

On Chinese quantum computers. "During your correspondent’s visit, which was agreed on in advance, the company panicked at the sight of a foreigner, abruptly cancelled interviews and notified the police." www.economist.com/business/202...

Opinion | Goodbye to Small Yard, High Fence

Goodbye to Small Yard, High Fence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

The day friendshoring died Joe Biden blocking Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel is a sad end for an unloved idea

"Successful historic episodes of using trade to make and keep foreign policy friends have involved facing down domestic opposition."

Biden’s Legacy on U.S.-China Tech Competition and the Challenges Facing Trump - The Wire China The outgoing administration is leaving behind a complex situation on chip export controls, argues Paul Triolo in this week's op-ed.

"Further disrupting supply chains and business models without fully understanding what the Biden administration has attempted in this space… would work against U.S. technology leadership."

It's a great book!

A great piece by @fengzhang.bsky.social:"a deeper and potentially more destabilising dimension of India-China rivalry. Some scholars call it a “positional rivalry” for leadership in Asia." Check out my book with Ganguly/Thompson on this Sino-Indian positional rivalry in Asia: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

My latest on Sino-Indian relations from the China-India Brief of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. I argue that China and India are engaged in a double rivalry, and three scenarios are possible as Trump returns to the presidency.

Why China Isn’t Scared of Trump U.S.-Chinese tensions may rise, but Washington’s isolationism will help Beijing.

Latest from Professor Yan Xuetong at Tsinghua.

China’s leaders do not look at Trump with fear.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

China-North Korea Evolving Relations | ChinaPower Project In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Feng Zhang joins us to discuss China-North Korea relations in light of the growing Russia-North Korea relationship and deployment of North Korean troops ...

My new podcast with CSIS's ChinaPower on China-North Korea relations.

By ‘helping’ us, technology risks making us intellectually and morally lazier. So true!

It's time to retire the Munich analogy Neoconservatives keep trotting it out to justify costly and dangerous interventions

Very much agree with the gist of this piece.

Zhou Enlai — Harvard University Press A Financial Times Best Book of 2024The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses o...

My choice of two China studies books of the year, from two of my most admired archival historians.

How China's Rise Transformed the International System new article: "Bipolarity is Back"

Bipolarity vs Multipolarity @proflind.bsky.social

If you take China away out of that group, the main "strength" the others have is their ability to destroy things and their willingness to throw their populations into a charnel house.

The US has a far better hand and, though it is in the process of misplaying that hand, retains enormous resilience.