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
julietlu.com
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
julietlu.com
"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending ...."
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 8:46 PM
"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending ...."
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For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.
@cape-aag.bsky.social When is the party for 2026?!
📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures Party - THIS Wednesday, 3/26, at Batch Brewing!
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party
@geographers.bsky.social!
@geographers.bsky.social!
January 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
@cape-aag.bsky.social When is the party for 2026?!
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The biggest challenge facing Prime Minister Mark Carney when he travels to the People's Republic of China this week is not the obstructionism of Chinese officials, but the determination of some Canadians to ensure that he fails in his mission.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
As Carney engages China, beware the bogeyman tropes
The threat of Chinese foreign interference is exaggerated and used as a scare tactic to resist better relations with Beijing.
www.hilltimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The biggest challenge facing Prime Minister Mark Carney when he travels to the People's Republic of China this week is not the obstructionism of Chinese officials, but the determination of some Canadians to ensure that he fails in his mission.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
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And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.
I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
Info on the Canada Impact & Research Training program for PhD and Postdoctoral fellows:
www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...
www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...
Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
Impact, Impact +, CIRTA
www.grad.ubc.ca
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Info on the Canada Impact & Research Training program for PhD and Postdoctoral fellows:
www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...
www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...
Sick
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Sick
As someone who has studied the history of drug wars this is not just about drugs and we are far far less safe when leaders act lawlessly under that guise.
January 4, 2026 at 10:06 AM
As someone who has studied the history of drug wars this is not just about drugs and we are far far less safe when leaders act lawlessly under that guise.
It's shocking how little Gaza is front page news. Famine is an extreme status, an absolutely unliveable situation, moving out of that category doesn't mean much at all. The region is still teetering on the edge of barely surviving and the world has moved on.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Gaza no longer in famine after aid access improves, hunger monitor says
There is no longer famine in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said on Friday, after access for humanitarian and commercial food deliveries improved following a fragile October 10 ceasefire in the war bet...
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
It's shocking how little Gaza is front page news. Famine is an extreme status, an absolutely unliveable situation, moving out of that category doesn't mean much at all. The region is still teetering on the edge of barely surviving and the world has moved on.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Melissa Hortman's story reveals why I loved the promise and was disappointed by the reality of Obama.
Hers was a life of grassroots organizing. A ground-up approach is especially challenging in today's America but I think potentially especially transformative.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Hers was a life of grassroots organizing. A ground-up approach is especially challenging in today's America but I think potentially especially transformative.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Melissa Hortman's story reveals why I loved the promise and was disappointed by the reality of Obama.
Hers was a life of grassroots organizing. A ground-up approach is especially challenging in today's America but I think potentially especially transformative.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Hers was a life of grassroots organizing. A ground-up approach is especially challenging in today's America but I think potentially especially transformative.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Onion is becoming something different altogether.
It's like... the mass shootings situation in the US is so unfathomably deeply offensive to human common sense and yet impossibly entrenched ... this is maybe the only way I can handle thinking about it?
theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
It's like... the mass shootings situation in the US is so unfathomably deeply offensive to human common sense and yet impossibly entrenched ... this is maybe the only way I can handle thinking about it?
theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
PROVIDENCE, RI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Rhode Island in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where t...
theonion.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The Onion is becoming something different altogether.
It's like... the mass shootings situation in the US is so unfathomably deeply offensive to human common sense and yet impossibly entrenched ... this is maybe the only way I can handle thinking about it?
theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
It's like... the mass shootings situation in the US is so unfathomably deeply offensive to human common sense and yet impossibly entrenched ... this is maybe the only way I can handle thinking about it?
theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
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What Justice on a Burning Planet?
Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and
@learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social.
Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET
RSVP:
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and
@learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social.
Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET
RSVP:
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What Justice on a Burning Planet?
Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and
@learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social.
Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET
RSVP:
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and
@learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social.
Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET
RSVP:
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Team Festivus — second place in Forestry’s holiday trivia!
@forestry.ubc.ca
@forestry.ubc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Team Festivus — second place in Forestry’s holiday trivia!
@forestry.ubc.ca
@forestry.ubc.ca
New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
New faculty name, new entryway art! @forestry.ubc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
New faculty name, new entryway art! @forestry.ubc.ca
Thao Nguyen (MSc student @forestry.ubc.ca) & I spoke to authors of this series on EV growth and Rubber-driven-deforestation in the Mekong Region.
We're optimistic about the company and sector-wide engagement campaigns to address rubber's impacts have raised, but
www.mekongeye.com/reports/meko...
We're optimistic about the company and sector-wide engagement campaigns to address rubber's impacts have raised, but
www.mekongeye.com/reports/meko...
Fast and dubious: How electric cars are tiring the Mekong
www.mekongeye.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thao Nguyen (MSc student @forestry.ubc.ca) & I spoke to authors of this series on EV growth and Rubber-driven-deforestation in the Mekong Region.
We're optimistic about the company and sector-wide engagement campaigns to address rubber's impacts have raised, but
www.mekongeye.com/reports/meko...
We're optimistic about the company and sector-wide engagement campaigns to address rubber's impacts have raised, but
www.mekongeye.com/reports/meko...
Our profile on Saysetta is out! Great work by @ellenlhl.bsky.social and thanks for the support from @globalchinamap.bsky.social
Check out Ellen Li's great profile of the Saysetta SEZ near Vientiane, Laos! It built on my visit (@profjulietlu.bsky.social) w Tyler Harlan & Nicholas Bosoni. Thanks to @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @globalchinamap.bsky.social for support! @ellenlhl.bsky.social
thepeoplesmap.net/project/vien...
thepeoplesmap.net/project/vien...
Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone - The People's Map of Global China
The Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone (SDZ) is China’s only national-level overseas economic and trade cooperation zone in Laos. Established through a ‘land-for-funding’ arrangement, it was develop...
thepeoplesmap.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our profile on Saysetta is out! Great work by @ellenlhl.bsky.social and thanks for the support from @globalchinamap.bsky.social
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Gaza remains suspended in limbo. Waiting for aid. Waiting for news of prisoners. Waiting for the world to see that the genocide has not ended—it has only changed its form.
https://bit.ly/48zjsvP
https://bit.ly/48zjsvP
The Gaza Genocide Has Not Ended. It Has Only Changed Its Form.
A real ceasefire would mean opening borders, rebuilding what was destroyed, and allowing life to return. But this is not happening.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Gaza remains suspended in limbo. Waiting for aid. Waiting for news of prisoners. Waiting for the world to see that the genocide has not ended—it has only changed its form.
https://bit.ly/48zjsvP
https://bit.ly/48zjsvP
The Earth Systems Governance Conference will be in Bath, UK in September 2026 - Abstracts due Jan 15!
www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/ca...
www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/ca...
Call for Papers - Earth System Governance
Call for Papers | Earth System Governance
www.earthsystemgovernance.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The Earth Systems Governance Conference will be in Bath, UK in September 2026 - Abstracts due Jan 15!
www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/ca...
www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/ca...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
Who is coming to #AAS in Vancover in March and wants to talk China and/or Southeast Asia and/or Canadian engagement? No experts needed, but I'm trying to take the temperature so as to decide whether to host a pre-AAS event! Shoot me a message or reply here!
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Who is coming to #AAS in Vancover in March and wants to talk China and/or Southeast Asia and/or Canadian engagement? No experts needed, but I'm trying to take the temperature so as to decide whether to host a pre-AAS event! Shoot me a message or reply here!
This Friday!!!
We're very excited to be hosting a visit by James Lin at the Centre for Chinese Research with support from @sppga.ubc.ca! His new book on Taiwan has lessons for the world about agrarian change, the food sector, and rural life.
Friday November 28, 3pm in the Liu building's Place of Many Trees
Friday November 28, 3pm in the Liu building's Place of Many Trees
For folks in Vancouver, I'll be giving a talk about my book, In the Global Vanguard, in-person at the University of British Columbia Centre for Chinese Research on November 28, 3-5pm. Many thanks to @profjulietlu.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This Friday!!!