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🗓️ Feb. 24 @ Noon | Islamic Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Responsibility in Southeast Asia
Teren Sevea of @harvarddivinity.bsky.social, our Lee Kong Chian fellow on Southeast Asia, discusses environmental sciences and narratives in Islamic Southeast Asian contexts.
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Teren Sevea of @harvarddivinity.bsky.social, our Lee Kong Chian fellow on Southeast Asia, discusses environmental sciences and narratives in Islamic Southeast Asian contexts.
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Islamic Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Responsibility in Southeast
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February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
🗓️ Feb. 24 @ Noon | Islamic Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Responsibility in Southeast Asia
Teren Sevea of @harvarddivinity.bsky.social, our Lee Kong Chian fellow on Southeast Asia, discusses environmental sciences and narratives in Islamic Southeast Asian contexts.
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Teren Sevea of @harvarddivinity.bsky.social, our Lee Kong Chian fellow on Southeast Asia, discusses environmental sciences and narratives in Islamic Southeast Asian contexts.
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Last call! The deadline to enter nominations for our 2026 Shorenstein Journalism Award & $10K prize recognizing excellence in covering the Asia-Pacific region is Feb. 15. This cycle, the award will honor a recipient for outstanding contributions to U.S. or European news media. 👇️ stanford.io/36EvGom
Shorenstein Journalism Award Nominations
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February 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Last call! The deadline to enter nominations for our 2026 Shorenstein Journalism Award & $10K prize recognizing excellence in covering the Asia-Pacific region is Feb. 15. This cycle, the award will honor a recipient for outstanding contributions to U.S. or European news media. 👇️ stanford.io/36EvGom
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party secured a historic landslide victory in Sunday’s Lower House election with projections showing the party securing a two-thirds supermajority by itself.
LDP secures two-thirds supermajority in Lower House election victory
Results early Monday showed the LDP had won 316 seats, giving it a higher proportion of representatives in the body than any other party in postwar Japan.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party secured a historic landslide victory in Sunday’s Lower House election with projections showing the party securing a two-thirds supermajority by itself.
How do Taiwanese citizens perceive key national security issues such as increased defense spending, willingness to fight in a cross-Strait contingency, and U.S. credibility?
Academia Sinica & @casbsstanford.bsky.social's @wwc557.bsky.social shares new survey findings. Read on: stanford.io/4rAVuZ0
Academia Sinica & @casbsstanford.bsky.social's @wwc557.bsky.social shares new survey findings. Read on: stanford.io/4rAVuZ0
Survey Reveals How Taiwanese Citizens View National Security
Using data from "American Portrait," a Taiwan-based survey that investigates the public's perception of the United States and China, political economist Wen Chin Wu of Academia Sinica unpacks how the…
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February 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
How do Taiwanese citizens perceive key national security issues such as increased defense spending, willingness to fight in a cross-Strait contingency, and U.S. credibility?
Academia Sinica & @casbsstanford.bsky.social's @wwc557.bsky.social shares new survey findings. Read on: stanford.io/4rAVuZ0
Academia Sinica & @casbsstanford.bsky.social's @wwc557.bsky.social shares new survey findings. Read on: stanford.io/4rAVuZ0
Why are highly educated South Korean women disproportionately more likely to leave Korea than men? Research by APARC Postdoctoral Fellow Minyoung An sheds light on gendered migration pathways, highlighting a challenge that compounds the country's long-term talent loss. stanford.io/4cbfxIZ
How Gender Inequality Drives Talent Abroad and Keeps Women Away
Minyoung An, a postdoctoral fellow with the Korea Program and the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab at APARC, studies how gender inequality shapes migration pathways and return decisions among South…
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February 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Why are highly educated South Korean women disproportionately more likely to leave Korea than men? Research by APARC Postdoctoral Fellow Minyoung An sheds light on gendered migration pathways, highlighting a challenge that compounds the country's long-term talent loss. stanford.io/4cbfxIZ
"While deterrence is costly, it's a lot cheaper than war."
@fsi.stanford.edu Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro explains why the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific not only prevents major conflicts in the region but also protects American freedoms.
🎧️ Listen via @wbur.org On Point: buff.ly/r2pQgvJ
@fsi.stanford.edu Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro explains why the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific not only prevents major conflicts in the region but also protects American freedoms.
🎧️ Listen via @wbur.org On Point: buff.ly/r2pQgvJ
Does America's new national security strategy actually put 'America First'?
The Trump Administration has now published its National Security Strategy and its National Defense Strategy. They present an ideological shift in U.S. foreign policy that deprioritizes defending…
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February 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
"While deterrence is costly, it's a lot cheaper than war."
@fsi.stanford.edu Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro explains why the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific not only prevents major conflicts in the region but also protects American freedoms.
🎧️ Listen via @wbur.org On Point: buff.ly/r2pQgvJ
@fsi.stanford.edu Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro explains why the U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific not only prevents major conflicts in the region but also protects American freedoms.
🎧️ Listen via @wbur.org On Point: buff.ly/r2pQgvJ
❓How do Taiwanese citizens view national security? Using data from a Taiwan-based survey that investigates the public's perception of the U.S. and China, Wen-Chin Wu unpacks how the Taiwanese public feels about self-defense and reliance on external partners.
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Survey Reveals How Taiwanese Citizens View National Security
Using data from "American Portrait," a Taiwan-based survey that investigates the public's perception of the United States and China, political economist Wen Chin Wu of Academia Sinica unpacks how the ...
aparc.fsi.stanford.edu
February 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
❓How do Taiwanese citizens view national security? Using data from a Taiwan-based survey that investigates the public's perception of the U.S. and China, Wen-Chin Wu unpacks how the Taiwanese public feels about self-defense and reliance on external partners.
aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/survey-...
aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/survey-...
📣 2026 Oksenberg Conference: Coping with a Less Predictable US
🗓️ March 3, 2-5:30 PM PT at Stanford
How are China and other Indo-Pacific actors reading the moment and shaping the regional order amid uncertainty about U.S. policy and the future of global governance?
✅ Join us: stanford.io/4aheHrw
🗓️ March 3, 2-5:30 PM PT at Stanford
How are China and other Indo-Pacific actors reading the moment and shaping the regional order amid uncertainty about U.S. policy and the future of global governance?
✅ Join us: stanford.io/4aheHrw
2026 Oksenberg Conference – Coping with a Less Predictable United States
Stanford University
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February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
📣 2026 Oksenberg Conference: Coping with a Less Predictable US
🗓️ March 3, 2-5:30 PM PT at Stanford
How are China and other Indo-Pacific actors reading the moment and shaping the regional order amid uncertainty about U.S. policy and the future of global governance?
✅ Join us: stanford.io/4aheHrw
🗓️ March 3, 2-5:30 PM PT at Stanford
How are China and other Indo-Pacific actors reading the moment and shaping the regional order amid uncertainty about U.S. policy and the future of global governance?
✅ Join us: stanford.io/4aheHrw
A comparative analysis by APARC's Gi-Wook Shin, author of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social book The Four Talent Giants, shows how different national human resource strategies shape economic success, drawing implications for global talent competition in the AI era. buff.ly/WSLA5sr
Four Insights on How Countries Compete for Talent in a Globalized World
From the practices of higher education institutions to diaspora networks, talent return programs, and immigration policies of central governments, a comparative analysis by Stanford sociologist…
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February 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
A comparative analysis by APARC's Gi-Wook Shin, author of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social book The Four Talent Giants, shows how different national human resource strategies shape economic success, drawing implications for global talent competition in the AI era. buff.ly/WSLA5sr
"For anyone invested in U.S.-China relations, East Asian history, or global stability more broadly, this book constitutes indispensable reading."
@messingschlager.bsky.social reviews Xinru Ma and @daveckang.bsky.social's @columbiaup.bsky.social book, "Beyond Power Transitions." buff.ly/XKlCDnP
@messingschlager.bsky.social reviews Xinru Ma and @daveckang.bsky.social's @columbiaup.bsky.social book, "Beyond Power Transitions." buff.ly/XKlCDnP
Review of Beyond power transitions. The lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S. —China relations
Amid escalating geopolitical tensions between the USA and China, Xinru Ma and David C. Kang’s Beyond Power Transitions thoughtfully engages one of the most
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February 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"For anyone invested in U.S.-China relations, East Asian history, or global stability more broadly, this book constitutes indispensable reading."
@messingschlager.bsky.social reviews Xinru Ma and @daveckang.bsky.social's @columbiaup.bsky.social book, "Beyond Power Transitions." buff.ly/XKlCDnP
@messingschlager.bsky.social reviews Xinru Ma and @daveckang.bsky.social's @columbiaup.bsky.social book, "Beyond Power Transitions." buff.ly/XKlCDnP
China is turning inwards in nurturing and retaining talent, according to a new study. Academics are now being pressured to publish in Chinese. “If they don’t, they’re being politically criticized,” APARC's Gi‑Wook Shin, author of 'The Four Talent Giants,' tells @nature.com.
China’s relationship with foreign scientific powers is changing rapidly
A study that examines career histories of the country’s elite scholars reveals that the nation is turning inwards in its search for talent.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
China is turning inwards in nurturing and retaining talent, according to a new study. Academics are now being pressured to publish in Chinese. “If they don’t, they’re being politically criticized,” APARC's Gi‑Wook Shin, author of 'The Four Talent Giants,' tells @nature.com.
🗾 Feb 19 9am-5:30pm | Join APARC's Japan Program for a full-day, in-person conference on the sources of creation and innovation in the globally renowned content industries of Japan. Register below and reserve your seat today! ⤵️
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Japan’s Global Content Industries: Innovations and Reinventions in Film
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February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
🗾 Feb 19 9am-5:30pm | Join APARC's Japan Program for a full-day, in-person conference on the sources of creation and innovation in the globally renowned content industries of Japan. Register below and reserve your seat today! ⤵️
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What's behind President Xi Jinping's shocking purge of top Gen. Zhang Youxia? Oriana Skylar Mastro breaks down Zhang's fall, Xi's tightening grip on power – or paranoia, and the implications for the PLA and Taiwan. Get her analysis via the @telegraph.co.uk Battle Lines podcast.
Nuclear secrets leak or paranoia? Why Xi really purged China’s top general
Xi Jinping is purging again. Generals once seen as untouchable are gone, rivals erased, loyalty enforced through fear. Is this the move of a leader under real threat or the paranoia of a man who has…
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February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
What's behind President Xi Jinping's shocking purge of top Gen. Zhang Youxia? Oriana Skylar Mastro breaks down Zhang's fall, Xi's tightening grip on power – or paranoia, and the implications for the PLA and Taiwan. Get her analysis via the @telegraph.co.uk Battle Lines podcast.
It was a pleasure to host @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @jessicacweiss.bsky.social who shared findings from her forthcoming book, 'Faultlines: The Tensions Beneath China's Global Ambitions,' which reveals how the CCPʼs domestic policy drives an assertive yet pragmatic foreign policy. buff.ly/teK1wED
A World Safe for Autocracy: How Chinese Domestic Politics Shapes Beijing's
China studies expert Jessica Chen Weiss of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies reveals how the Chinese Communist Partyʼs pursuit of domestic survival, which balances three core…
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January 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM
It was a pleasure to host @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @jessicacweiss.bsky.social who shared findings from her forthcoming book, 'Faultlines: The Tensions Beneath China's Global Ambitions,' which reveals how the CCPʼs domestic policy drives an assertive yet pragmatic foreign policy. buff.ly/teK1wED
South Korea's former first lady was sentenced to 20 months for bribery; Yoon awaits rebellion verdict. Prosecutors who target top leaders win public trust. "Even very powerful people have to be careful," APARC's Gi‑Wook Shin tells @washingtonpost.com
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South Korea’s former first lady jailed for bribery ahead of husband’s verdict
Kim Keon Hee, the wife of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, was handed a 20-month sentence in a country where high-level prosecutions have become standard fare.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM
South Korea's former first lady was sentenced to 20 months for bribery; Yoon awaits rebellion verdict. Prosecutors who target top leaders win public trust. "Even very powerful people have to be careful," APARC's Gi‑Wook Shin tells @washingtonpost.com
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🎙️ New APARC Briefing Episode | Stanford sociologist and APARC Director Kiyoteru Tsutsui sits down with @rahmemanuel.bsky.social for a wide-ranging conversation on political rupture in America, squandered alliances in the Indo-Pacific, and lessons from Japan. Watch ⬇️ buff.ly/0uBUr3z
"Trump Tries to Rule, Not Govern": Rahm Emanuel on America, Japan, and 2028
In this APARC Briefing episode, Stanford University sociologist Kiyoteru Tsutsui, the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific…
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January 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM
🎙️ New APARC Briefing Episode | Stanford sociologist and APARC Director Kiyoteru Tsutsui sits down with @rahmemanuel.bsky.social for a wide-ranging conversation on political rupture in America, squandered alliances in the Indo-Pacific, and lessons from Japan. Watch ⬇️ buff.ly/0uBUr3z
To compete with China, the U.S. must make smarter choices, says @rahmemanuel.bsky.social: reverse decades of leaving students behind, stop undermining research universities, and move beyond 20th-century energy sources. buff.ly/tZ73LRP
Watch the complete conversation ➡️ buff.ly/MQyKYzK
Watch the complete conversation ➡️ buff.ly/MQyKYzK
Rahm Emanuel: To compete with China, the US has to start making better decisions
Speaking at a fireside chat with Ambassador Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador, mayor, congressman, and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel asserts that the United States needs to make the…
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January 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
To compete with China, the U.S. must make smarter choices, says @rahmemanuel.bsky.social: reverse decades of leaving students behind, stop undermining research universities, and move beyond 20th-century energy sources. buff.ly/tZ73LRP
Watch the complete conversation ➡️ buff.ly/MQyKYzK
Watch the complete conversation ➡️ buff.ly/MQyKYzK
#StudentJobAlert | APARC is hiring a Videographer/Video Content Creator to help us tell compelling Asia-Pacific stories across digital platforms. The role is open to current Stanford students only. Learn more and let us hear from you > stanford.io/4bYUwkH
January 28, 2026 at 8:10 PM
#StudentJobAlert | APARC is hiring a Videographer/Video Content Creator to help us tell compelling Asia-Pacific stories across digital platforms. The role is open to current Stanford students only. Learn more and let us hear from you > stanford.io/4bYUwkH
📽️ WATCH: Straight Talk with @rahmemanuel.bsky.social: A fireside chat with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social – now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/f0ZjWA2Ep0c
Get Amb. Emanuel's take on U.S.-Japan relations + Indo-Pacific strategy, U.S.-China competition, politics in the Trump era, leadership, and more.
Get Amb. Emanuel's take on U.S.-Japan relations + Indo-Pacific strategy, U.S.-China competition, politics in the Trump era, leadership, and more.
Straight Talk with Rahm Emanuel: A fireside chat with Michael McFaul
YouTube video by Stanford APARC
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January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
📽️ WATCH: Straight Talk with @rahmemanuel.bsky.social: A fireside chat with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social – now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/f0ZjWA2Ep0c
Get Amb. Emanuel's take on U.S.-Japan relations + Indo-Pacific strategy, U.S.-China competition, politics in the Trump era, leadership, and more.
Get Amb. Emanuel's take on U.S.-Japan relations + Indo-Pacific strategy, U.S.-China competition, politics in the Trump era, leadership, and more.
Looking forward to seeing @emilyzfeng.bsky.social, our 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award winner, back at Stanford, hosted by @hooverinstitution.bsky.social this Friday, and hearing her discuss the human stories behind her book and the challenges of reporting them.
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity And Belonging In Xi Jinping's China
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January 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Looking forward to seeing @emilyzfeng.bsky.social, our 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award winner, back at Stanford, hosted by @hooverinstitution.bsky.social this Friday, and hearing her discuss the human stories behind her book and the challenges of reporting them.
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Delighted to welcome Ambassador, Mayor, Congressman, and former White House Chief of Staff @rahmemanuel.bsky.social for a conversation with @fsi.stanford.edu's @mcfaulmike.bsky.social on U.S. alliances with Japan and other key partners, leadership at home and abroad in this pivotal moment, and more.
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Delighted to welcome Ambassador, Mayor, Congressman, and former White House Chief of Staff @rahmemanuel.bsky.social for a conversation with @fsi.stanford.edu's @mcfaulmike.bsky.social on U.S. alliances with Japan and other key partners, leadership at home and abroad in this pivotal moment, and more.
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New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow.
#ReadUP @asianstudies.org
#ReadUP @asianstudies.org
USAID Closure Makes Way for an “Asian” Development Imaginary - Association for Asian Studies
By Mary-Collier Wilks In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would reduce foreign aid spending. By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially s...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:55 PM
New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow.
#ReadUP @asianstudies.org
#ReadUP @asianstudies.org
Using South Korea as a case study, APARC Postdoctoral Fellow Minyoung An shows how macro-level gender inequalities and micro-level aspirations jointly shape talent migration flows and drive women's talents abroad. Watch her seminar presentation ⏬
Why Women Leave: Gendered Pathways of Global Talent | Minyoung An
In this talk, Minyoung An examines how gender and gender inequality shape global talent migration, with a focus on flows to the United States. Conceptualizing gender as both an individual attribute…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Using South Korea as a case study, APARC Postdoctoral Fellow Minyoung An shows how macro-level gender inequalities and micro-level aspirations jointly shape talent migration flows and drive women's talents abroad. Watch her seminar presentation ⏬
Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, APARC's 2021-22 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia, on the publication of her new book 👏
Out now! Reimagining Aid by Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD investigates the intricate interplay between aid donors from Japan and the United States, their competing priorities, and their impact on women's health initiatives in Cambodia. #ReadUP
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January 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, APARC's 2021-22 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia, on the publication of her new book 👏
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Next week: "Foreign Support for Tibetan Refugees During the Cold War" with Reed Chervin.
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Foreign Support for Tibetan Refugees During the Cold War | Reed Chervin
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January 22, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Next week: "Foreign Support for Tibetan Refugees During the Cold War" with Reed Chervin.
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