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New paper in @GlobalizationsJ! We examine what we call ‘Anglobal knowledge’, the collective Anglosphere's distinct epistemic centrality, and its absence from area studies. doi.org/10.1080/147477… Part of an upcoming special issue on decentering knowledge in IR!

@gonglei89 全世界都在學中國話 孔夫子的話越來越國際化 someone didn't grow up listening to what the natives grew up listening to

Why is it odd? Even the older families in Taiwan keep family trees that trace them back to China. The idea of Taiwan having no identity relations to China is a modern invention of the last 20 years.

@DrKevorkO I don't think Irene is writing copium. I don't disagree with the overall argument that ChinaMaxxing is a fad and novelty. I do, however, hate seeing non-IR observers constantly conflate cultural influence with soft power in op-ed after op-ed.

Massive amounts of cope in one article.

@gonglei89 If you'd have asked him in 2024 about everything the US would do in 2025-26, he'd have said nobody is talking about doing that.

They can read English in China.

Western elites have moved from claiming exceptions to International Law to just declaring International Law irrelevant. Progress?

You have this bizarre world where US, Russia, EU and Israel just attack any countries they feel like attacking, and US and EU are worried about "Chinese aggressive policies".

@RnaudBertrand From outside of Europe, these two men look like very stereotypical representions of their countries: The Frenchman who has delusions of grandeur but is actually easygoing, versus the German who is intensely serious about everything.

Truly fascinating to contrast this with Macron's response when he too came back from his latest China trip. Really two completely opposite visions of Europe. Macron immediately called for tariffs and protectionism on Chinese imports, whereas Merz immediately calls for Germans to wake up and work harder. In other words, they both saw the same reality in China but they draw diametrically opposite conclusions: Merz concludes "the problem is us" whilst Macron concludes "the problem is them." One of these responses is of course politically convenient: much easier to hear (and say, as a politician) that someone else is to blame rather than yourself. It's also cowardly and ineffective: you can't change others, the only one you can change is yourself. Macron is, as per his habit, being a politician as opposed to a statesman. It's also deeply ironic. Macron styles himself as some sort of modernizer for Europe, yet his reaction couldn't be more conservative in the worst sense of the term: he wants to shield Europe from competition rather than make it competitive. Merz, on the other hand, who is literally a CDU conservative, is the one delivering the reformist message... Now of course I'm not going to lionize Merz who I'm sure is also much more of a politician than a statesman. And "working harder" in and of itself is no panacea: Greece and Romania are the countries in the EU with the longest working hours (ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/p…) and that's not exactly working out to be a recipe for prosperity for them... But the instinct is the right one: it's a cop-out and a massive disservice to make people believe that Europe's decline is something being done to it rather than something it is doing to itself.

People often get public opinion wrong, assuming their own views are unpopular when in fact many others share them--known as "pluralistic ignorance" This new paper offers practical solutions for pluralistic ignorance: -in loose cultures, sharing accurate information works best -in tight ones, lowering the costs of speaking up can spark social change. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My article for Foreign Affairs, entitled, "The Dream Palace of the West", addresses the West's continued inability to accommodate a rising Asia (and the Global South). Aptly, it was published just as the Lunar New Year of the Horse began. Do read: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

@Sven_Etienne This kind of Western civilization talk (incl. anything from Rome to Rhodesia) seems to be more about domestic demographic issues across the West rather than about China, a.k.a. "Communist China".

You always become more like your enemy. America became associated with liberal capitalism when it faced the Soviet Union. America is reinventing itself as the champion of 3000 years of Western civilization as it faces China.

@Satvik_Pen But it wouldn't surprise me if that did actually happen in China multiple times in the 2000s, or even early 2010s.

20 years ago when Chinese universities showcased obvious copies and clones of foreign technology, they usually still built the thing they showed you even if the design was copied. It may not have functioned as well but alas Seems like Galgotias and ilk cant even manage that

@DrKevorkO MAGA isn't Russia. USA is 50x more capable. The economy, demographics, military and (most importantly) geography are all absolute advantages over Russia. Plus, no higher power can sanction USA. Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio et al are far less delusional than the Russians.

Western politicians with post-imperial nostalgia - e.g. Marco Rubio - should ask the Russians where such delusions eventually lead.

@beirhbrjrk His book is shite

@SunSibei His book was overrated though.

@NickKristof @nytimes Ah yes, pledging to fight a war against China on the US's behalf while meeting Pompeo is "committing journalism"

First, China sentences Jimmy Lai to die in prison for committing journalism. Now it prosecutes the aging father of Anna Kwok to punish her for dissent. This is Xi’s dictatorship. nytimes.com/2026/02/10/wor… via @NYTimes

Four years in US prison for aiding a local election campaign and spreading positive news about China. Makes Jimmy Lai's 20 years for inciting an insurrection and flying to DC to court Pompeo et al (then self-snitching on camera) seem VERY lenient. "do as we say, not as we do"

@kcarbenson @FBILosAngeles The "newspaper publisher" used his newspaper to tell people to riot and destroy public facilities, then flew to DC to ask for material support from Mike Pompeo. He'd get the death sentence in the US.

@FBILosAngeles I thought this was a joke. Almost seems like spying pays. I bet China would not be so kind if a treasonous spy was caught there. Look how they treated a newspaper publisher et al yesterday in Hong Kong. We are not serious here.

Yaoning "Mike" Sun, 65, of San Bernardino County, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including while serving as the campaign advisor for a political candidate who was elected to the city council of a Southern California city. Details: justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/p…

@JackBan56965596 The court didn't dispute that either, as that is also beside the point that he colluded with a foreign government against his own.

@SunSibei “War” is obviously a metaphor. You didn’t fully highlight the first instance of his use of the term, “war of the same values.” You also failed to highlight the later “war of competing values.” There was no literal war involving HK, CN, and the US.

This is from Jimmy Lai's 2019 talk at FDD. In court, he said the "nuclear weapon" remark was a metaphor — but what came before is the transcript's actual self-incriminating evidence. He's like a rapper bragging about murder in a song, then using the "it's art" defense in court.

@JackBan56965596 The court didn't dispute that. Disclosing to Schanzer that his meeting with Pompeo involved pledging to fight a war against China on the US's behalf... was one of the many things he couldn't talk his way out of. Why Schanzer thought it was a good idea to ask is beyond me.

@SunSibei Uhhh… it is a metaphor?

@gonglei89 He literally thinks "history didn't literally end" is among the main arguments put forth by critics of Fukuyama's thesis.

It’s not, because he identified the wrong fail mode. It wasn’t boredom that undid liberal hegemony. It was capitalism, one of his supposed solutions to history, hollowing out liberal societies creating seas of disaffected people who had no other recourse but tribal reductivism.

Is America's #fascism simultaneously present and absent? We call it 'Schrödinger's fascism' — and it's time to open the box! Read my new article with Barry Buzan on #Trump 2.0 out in British Journal of Politics and International Relations! OPEN ACCESS🎉doi.org/10.1177/136914…