Zhexun Mo
@zhexunmo.bsky.social
Postdoc - @stone-lis.bsky.social | East Asia Coordinator - World Inequality Lab | Ph.D. - @pse.bsky.social | Political/Public Econ + Econ History + Development of China, East Asia and Africa | Chasing Inequalities 🏳️🌈 https://sites.google.com/view/zhexunmo
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2025 highlights:
✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁
✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October
✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December
✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers
...and more!
📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...
✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁
✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October
✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December
✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers
...and more!
📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 AM
2025 highlights:
✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁
✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October
✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December
✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers
...and more!
📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...
✨ Inequality placed on the agenda of the 𝗚𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁
✨2025 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in October
✨2026 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 published in December
✨27 Working Papers authored by 78 researchers
...and more!
📖 Flip through our report heyzine.com/flip-book/22...
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📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
Now another R&R at one of my favorite journals (JEH) - 2026 is blessed 😀
✨ Good news to start 2026! ✨ 🥳
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
January 28, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Now another R&R at one of my favorite journals (JEH) - 2026 is blessed 😀
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To make the most of the World Inequality Database, consult the DINA Guidelines and other resources: wid.world/methodology/
This 3rd edition includes improved or new:
🔹macro aggregates
🔹income and wealth definitions
🔹data-quality flags
🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality
This 3rd edition includes improved or new:
🔹macro aggregates
🔹income and wealth definitions
🔹data-quality flags
🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality
January 22, 2026 at 8:10 AM
To make the most of the World Inequality Database, consult the DINA Guidelines and other resources: wid.world/methodology/
This 3rd edition includes improved or new:
🔹macro aggregates
🔹income and wealth definitions
🔹data-quality flags
🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality
This 3rd edition includes improved or new:
🔹macro aggregates
🔹income and wealth definitions
🔹data-quality flags
🔹sections on wealth distribution and gender inequality
✨ Good news to start 2026! ✨ 🥳
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
January 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM
✨ Good news to start 2026! ✨ 🥳
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
Our paper “Human Capital, Unequal Opportunities and Productivity Convergence: A Global Historical Perspective, 1800–2100” has been accepted at the Journal of Public Economics.
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I am so very sorry to hear about the passing about my friend and colleague Professor Kimuli Kasara. She was a brilliant scholar and a bright, funny, warm person. I remember first meeting her as the only other Black woman/faculty at the Columbia political econ seminar and feeling relief/happiness
January 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I am so very sorry to hear about the passing about my friend and colleague Professor Kimuli Kasara. She was a brilliant scholar and a bright, funny, warm person. I remember first meeting her as the only other Black woman/faculty at the Columbia political econ seminar and feeling relief/happiness
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🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
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Also, "contributed by" articles should probably be entirely done away with at PNAS.
This dirty little secret is that this provides a way for NAS members to get questionable work in at a high profile outlet with less stringent peer review.
It's corrupt and it's anti science.
This dirty little secret is that this provides a way for NAS members to get questionable work in at a high profile outlet with less stringent peer review.
It's corrupt and it's anti science.
It must be really nice to be able to simply assert that reverse causation isn't a problem and then magically we're in causal inference land.
(Yes, that's what they do here.)
(Yes, that's what they do here.)
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Also, "contributed by" articles should probably be entirely done away with at PNAS.
This dirty little secret is that this provides a way for NAS members to get questionable work in at a high profile outlet with less stringent peer review.
It's corrupt and it's anti science.
This dirty little secret is that this provides a way for NAS members to get questionable work in at a high profile outlet with less stringent peer review.
It's corrupt and it's anti science.
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South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income.
New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.
Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.
Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa - WID - World Inequality Database
Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international aca...
wid.world
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income.
New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.
Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.
Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
👇Share this thread, share the report!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
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This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
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Amid rising China–EU tensions, how do Germans really see Chinese foreign investment?
And can facts, positive narratives, or negative narratives change those views?
We answer this using:
🧪 A survey experiment in SOEP-IS (N = 2,365)
🇨🇳 A mirrored national survey in China (N = 2,000)
🧵 A thread.
Amid rising China–EU tensions, how do Germans really see Chinese foreign investment?
And can facts, positive narratives, or negative narratives change those views?
We answer this using:
🧪 A survey experiment in SOEP-IS (N = 2,365)
🇨🇳 A mirrored national survey in China (N = 2,000)
🧵 A thread.
As China became the EU's largest trading partner, public concerns about the country's economic and political influence have grown. This new #WP looks at how German citizens perceive the opportunities and risks of engaging with China, and how much these perceptions align with reality.
bit.ly/4oJ7O8b
bit.ly/4oJ7O8b
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Amid rising China–EU tensions, how do Germans really see Chinese foreign investment?
And can facts, positive narratives, or negative narratives change those views?
We answer this using:
🧪 A survey experiment in SOEP-IS (N = 2,365)
🇨🇳 A mirrored national survey in China (N = 2,000)
🧵 A thread.
Amid rising China–EU tensions, how do Germans really see Chinese foreign investment?
And can facts, positive narratives, or negative narratives change those views?
We answer this using:
🧪 A survey experiment in SOEP-IS (N = 2,365)
🇨🇳 A mirrored national survey in China (N = 2,000)
🧵 A thread.
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📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Very excited to present ongoing work on the long shadow of French colonial army and military forced labor in Mali at the virtual workshop on French economic history online later!
📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Very excited to present ongoing work on the long shadow of French colonial army and military forced labor in Mali at the virtual workshop on French economic history online later!
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📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:
“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”
Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.
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Transformative national development (as opposed to nano-developmentalist nibbling at the margins) is the only way out of this. The sooner everyone is on the same page the better.
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Transformative national development (as opposed to nano-developmentalist nibbling at the margins) is the only way out of this. The sooner everyone is on the same page the better.
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
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Research shows strong public support for global climate & redistributive policies — and this new study by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social confirms it, through an original survey representative of the population in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇸🇦 🇺🇸
Read more: wid.world/news-article...
Read more: wid.world/news-article...
Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries - WID - World Inequality Database
Public Acceptance of International Redistribution in High-Income Countries This paper examines the support for global redistribution policies through an original survey representative of the populatio...
wid.world
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Research shows strong public support for global climate & redistributive policies — and this new study by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social confirms it, through an original survey representative of the population in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇸🇦 🇺🇸
Read more: wid.world/news-article...
Read more: wid.world/news-article...
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🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨
Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts".
Application deadline: 30 December.
#econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social
bit.ly/4qWyG6G
Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts".
Application deadline: 30 December.
#econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social
bit.ly/4qWyG6G
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in Public Economics (22572)
career5.successfactors.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨
Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts".
Application deadline: 30 December.
#econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social
bit.ly/4qWyG6G
Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts".
Application deadline: 30 December.
#econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social
bit.ly/4qWyG6G
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Reposted by Zhexun Mo
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
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New Working Paper by Stone Center postdoc Zhexun Mo, coauthored with Katharina Kaeppel, Carsten Schroder, and our Affiliated Scholar Li Yang. Their intriguing findings highlight asymmetry in German vs Chinese perceptions of the other's Foreign Direct Investments. @zhexunmo.bsky.social
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As China became the EU's largest trading partner, public concerns about the country's economic and political influence have grown. This new #WP looks at how German citizens perceive the opportunities and risks of engaging with China, and how much these perceptions align with reality.
bit.ly/4oJ7O8b
bit.ly/4oJ7O8b
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New Working Paper by Stone Center postdoc Zhexun Mo, coauthored with Katharina Kaeppel, Carsten Schroder, and our Affiliated Scholar Li Yang. Their intriguing findings highlight asymmetry in German vs Chinese perceptions of the other's Foreign Direct Investments. @zhexunmo.bsky.social
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