Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
Political scientist @Yale. International relations of China and Asia, grand strategy, philosophy.
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Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Apr 17
I did a podcast on trust in Chinese foreign policy with Severin de Wit's excellent TrustTalk podcast.
It's available:
✔️ on the TrustTalk website: lnkd.in/e-qrc9n3
✔️ On Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/eDHkw8tz
✔️ On Spotify: lnkd.in/eTRNsiCz
✔️ On the TrustTalk YouTube channel: lnkd.in/e-i-e9fr
It's available:
✔️ on the TrustTalk website: lnkd.in/e-qrc9n3
✔️ On Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/eDHkw8tz
✔️ On Spotify: lnkd.in/eTRNsiCz
✔️ On the TrustTalk YouTube channel: lnkd.in/e-i-e9fr
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Jan 31
America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation
How linguistic differences complicate relations between the great powers
www.economist.com
Nice article from The Economist on the cross-cultural linguistic difficulties in US-China relations.
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Jan 12
Opinion | Does America Need More Meritocracy?
Debating Vivek Ramaswamy’s pressure-cooker vision.
www.nytimes.com
Meritocracy is needed everywhere - the question is what kind and to what degree.
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Jan 7
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.
www.scmp.com
This piece dovetails with my earlier analysis on the rapid deterioration of China-North Korea relations (lnkd.in/gBV9qHxd)
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Jan 6
Opinion | Goodbye to Small Yard, High Fence
www.nytimes.com
Goodbye to Small Yard, High Fence www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
Reposted by Zhang Feng
Shashank Joshi
@shashj.bsky.social
· Jan 6
China is catching up with America in quantum technology
But its state-heavy innovation model comes with risks
www.economist.com
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...
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Jan 6
The day friendshoring died
Joe Biden blocking Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel is a sad end for an unloved idea
www.ft.com
"Successful historic episodes of using trade to make and keep foreign policy friends have involved facing down domestic opposition."
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 26
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.
www.thewirechina.com
"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."
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 24
It's a great book!
Reposted by Zhang Feng
Manjeet S. Pardesi
@manjeetsp.bsky.social
· Dec 24
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...
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 23
lkyspp.nus.edu.sg
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.
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 21
Why China Isn’t Scared of Trump
U.S.-Chinese tensions may rise, but Washington’s isolationism will help Beijing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
Latest from Professor Yan Xuetong at Tsinghua.
China’s leaders do not look at Trump with fear.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
China’s leaders do not look at Trump with fear.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 19
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 ...
chinapower.csis.org
My new podcast with CSIS's ChinaPower on China-North Korea relations.
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Mastering AI
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intel...
www.simonandschuster.com
By ‘helping’ us, technology risks making us intellectually and morally lazier. So true!
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 17
It's time to retire the Munich analogy
Neoconservatives keep trotting it out to justify costly and dangerous interventions
responsiblestatecraft.org
Very much agree with the gist of this piece.
Feng Zhang
@fengzhang.bsky.social
· Dec 16
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...
www.hup.harvard.edu
My choice of two China studies books of the year, from two of my most admired archival historians.
Reposted by Zhang Feng
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.
The US has a far better hand and, though it is in the process of misplaying that hand, retains enormous resilience.