Juliet Lu (she/her/hers)
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Juliet Lu (she/her/hers)
@profjulietlu.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
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HE WAS STILL TEACHING?
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Gaza’s orphans would have “nothing to lose unless they see a future for themselves. Unless you offer something to these kids … we cannot exclude another terrorist attack. We cannot exclude armed groups being formed [or] much worse.”
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
- with all the chaos, disruption, destruction of institutions of the last half decade, corporations are only getting stronger and closer to governments who are supposed to oversee them
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
- war is devastating for the environment
- war is devastating for workers' rights, for families, for ordinary people
Meanwhile,
- war is great for elites
- studies and commentaries on 'geopolitics' feel very sterile to me compared to the absolute life-on-earth threatening issues it matters for
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I love the best/worst case scenario approach thank you. The resources available are a moving target but also yes one that is within my capacity to provide. And just always leading with humanity, we are humans first, academics second. ❤️✊🏼
September 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
monolith of a singular 'China'. That's how we should always have seen the US as a superpower and continue to see it as the facade of a united monolithic America fades.
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I suggest we can move beyond disproving the two polar interpretations (panda hugging vs. China hawk) and admit that China is often all of the above. A coercive force, a security threat, AND a development partner, a force for multilateralism, etc. That's what we mean when we talk about breaking the
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM