- 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

- 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

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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. ❤️✊🏼

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.

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

reckon with the politics that are placed upon us. Today US-China politics are polarizing and that's the starting point whether we like it or not. We can't be apolitical. The tact has been to split the difference, make the picture more complex - the book authors argue really well against this.

studies of global China in that we need to look more at the grey area between command, coercion, and consent. To do so, we need more voices from the global South, host countries, non-China experts engaged in radical collaborative methods with Sinologists.

Meanwhile, global China scholars need to

in responding to African developmental impulses and labor demands.” but China is increasingly inserting its military power into other countries in different ways now - sometimes overtly sometimes covertly. I don't think this changes her argument re China as a neocolonial power but it matters for

My comments: in 2018 CK Lee argued "“without recourse to military force, Chinese state capital’s encompassing imperatives — for which it is often assailed as ‘colonialist’ — in reality compel it to be more open to political negotiation and concession than profit-maximizing global private capital

to be brave but decide on their own ways of measuring risk vs. reward, and whatever the boundaries they set or decisions they make I will fully respect and work with. But I do think it's the responsibility of educators, advisors, etc. anyone in positions of leadership to help others navigate.

not for me but I'm following, it sounds likely