Winston Lee
@winstonlee.bsky.social
Research Associate @HongKongPolyU | SOASian @soasuni.bsky.social | Comp Polt, IR, Climate Governance
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Winston Lee
@winstonlee.bsky.social
· Jun 20
It was great to be part of @mybisa.bsky.social panel “US-China Tech Race” where Prof. Yvette To and I presented our paper “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China's Strategies for Chip Talent”.
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📰Professor @fionaadamson.bsky.social has received a special grant from The British Academy to boost collaborative efforts of migration research in Global South.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📰Professor @fionaadamson.bsky.social has received a special grant from The British Academy to boost collaborative efforts of migration research in Global South.
Read more: bit.ly/45hJIut
Read more: bit.ly/45hJIut
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When it comes to AI and Quant tech, recent @global-affairs.bsky.social survey shows that most US respondents want regulation…or don’t know what to think.
July 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
When it comes to AI and Quant tech, recent @global-affairs.bsky.social survey shows that most US respondents want regulation…or don’t know what to think.
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I’m excited to be reviving the @ChicagoCouncil’s Deep Dish #podcast.
I was joined this week by @vali_nasr and @MaloneySuzanne to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and US strategy.
You can listen here.
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I was joined this week by @vali_nasr and @MaloneySuzanne to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and US strategy.
You can listen here.
globalaffairs.org/commentary-a...
Beyond the Ceasefire: Iran’s Future, America’s Role, and What's Next
Vali Nasr and Suzanne Maloney join Leslie Vinjamuri on Deep Dish to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I’m excited to be reviving the @ChicagoCouncil’s Deep Dish #podcast.
I was joined this week by @vali_nasr and @MaloneySuzanne to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and US strategy.
You can listen here.
globalaffairs.org/commentary-a...
I was joined this week by @vali_nasr and @MaloneySuzanne to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and US strategy.
You can listen here.
globalaffairs.org/commentary-a...
A very nice short analysis on Trump’s economic policies by @maxyoeli.bsky.social
Trump's Big Bill: Battle lines drawn for the Midterms
The United States Congress passed Donald Trump's signature tax cuts and spending bill.
@maxyoeli.bsky.social looks at how it could add trillions to the US national debt.
The United States Congress passed Donald Trump's signature tax cuts and spending bill.
@maxyoeli.bsky.social looks at how it could add trillions to the US national debt.
July 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A very nice short analysis on Trump’s economic policies by @maxyoeli.bsky.social
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First day of the #EuropeanAssociationofTaiwanStudies (EATS) conference in Olomouc. Great to meet my authors in person and showcase their work! If you're attending, please do stop by for a chat or to explore our latest publications.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
First day of the #EuropeanAssociationofTaiwanStudies (EATS) conference in Olomouc. Great to meet my authors in person and showcase their work! If you're attending, please do stop by for a chat or to explore our latest publications.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
It was great to be part of @mybisa.bsky.social panel “US-China Tech Race” where Prof. Yvette To and I presented our paper “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China's Strategies for Chip Talent”.
June 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It was great to be part of @mybisa.bsky.social panel “US-China Tech Race” where Prof. Yvette To and I presented our paper “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China's Strategies for Chip Talent”.
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Food for thought this Friday 🍸📘
In a full-length interview with @thetimes.com, SOAS's Ha-Joon Chang talks about tariffs that work, making economics accessible - and why he loves a good Pisco Sour.
#HaJoonChang #EdibleEconomics #FridayReads #Economics
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
In a full-length interview with @thetimes.com, SOAS's Ha-Joon Chang talks about tariffs that work, making economics accessible - and why he loves a good Pisco Sour.
#HaJoonChang #EdibleEconomics #FridayReads #Economics
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Edible Economics author Ha-Joon Chang says tariffs can work
The distinguished research professor of economics at SOAS University of London wrote the book that blended the dismal science with the joy of food
www.thetimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Food for thought this Friday 🍸📘
In a full-length interview with @thetimes.com, SOAS's Ha-Joon Chang talks about tariffs that work, making economics accessible - and why he loves a good Pisco Sour.
#HaJoonChang #EdibleEconomics #FridayReads #Economics
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
In a full-length interview with @thetimes.com, SOAS's Ha-Joon Chang talks about tariffs that work, making economics accessible - and why he loves a good Pisco Sour.
#HaJoonChang #EdibleEconomics #FridayReads #Economics
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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New Publication! 📣
Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e
Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e
Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?
There is a wide range of labels, such as electoral autocracy, hybrid regimes, or multiparty autocracy, and corresponding empirical measures to describe and measure political regimes that combine au...
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May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New Publication! 📣
Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e
Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e
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@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
April 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
A very insightful research paper in today rapidly changing world !
Competing visions of international order: Responses to US power in a fracturing world @ChathamHouse
World class scholars and experts joined our collaboration to write on one of the very most fundamental questions of our time www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/comp...
World class scholars and experts joined our collaboration to write on one of the very most fundamental questions of our time www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/comp...
Competing visions of international order
Responses to US power in a fracturing world
www.chathamhouse.org
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A very insightful research paper in today rapidly changing world !
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Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/
February 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/
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Selling off US citizenship for cash...just like island states such as Dominica, Grenada, and St Lucia... highly recommend Kristin Surak's book on this.... www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
February 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Selling off US citizenship for cash...just like island states such as Dominica, Grenada, and St Lucia... highly recommend Kristin Surak's book on this.... www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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🗓️ Feb 20 @ 4pm | How do children from cross-border marriages in Taiwan form identity at the intersection of geopolitical tensions and multicultural policies? Join National Taiwan University's Pei-Chia Lan, a @casbsstanford.bsky.social Stanford-Taiwan Social Science Fellow, on campus.
Geopolitical Multiculturalism: Second-Generation Identities in Taiwan
Stanford University
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February 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🗓️ Feb 20 @ 4pm | How do children from cross-border marriages in Taiwan form identity at the intersection of geopolitical tensions and multicultural policies? Join National Taiwan University's Pei-Chia Lan, a @casbsstanford.bsky.social Stanford-Taiwan Social Science Fellow, on campus.
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So pleased to be able to follow @gepjournal.bsky.social on this platform. Looking forward to sharing and discussing new research from this great journal!
direct.mit.edu/glep
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Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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February 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So pleased to be able to follow @gepjournal.bsky.social on this platform. Looking forward to sharing and discussing new research from this great journal!
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Job opportunity at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University!
The team is looking for a Project Assistant who will assist the project leader to develop new interactive materials to enhance students’ active learning in social sciences classes.
Apply here
jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.p...
The team is looking for a Project Assistant who will assist the project leader to develop new interactive materials to enhance students’ active learning in social sciences classes.
Apply here
jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.p...
Job Application - Part-time Project Assistant
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February 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Job opportunity at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University!
The team is looking for a Project Assistant who will assist the project leader to develop new interactive materials to enhance students’ active learning in social sciences classes.
Apply here
jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.p...
The team is looking for a Project Assistant who will assist the project leader to develop new interactive materials to enhance students’ active learning in social sciences classes.
Apply here
jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.p...
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Is the world still unipolar? Now multipolar? And why should we care?
See my post in this week’s Blue Blaze
blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-chinas...
See my post in this week’s Blue Blaze
blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-chinas...
How China's Rise Transformed the International System
new article: "Bipolarity is Back"
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December 15, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Is the world still unipolar? Now multipolar? And why should we care?
See my post in this week’s Blue Blaze
blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-chinas...
See my post in this week’s Blue Blaze
blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-chinas...
Delighted to share, Dr. Yvette To @HongKongPolyU and I will be presenting one of our working papers “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China’s Strategies for Chip Talent” at BISA2025.
January 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Delighted to share, Dr. Yvette To @HongKongPolyU and I will be presenting one of our working papers “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China’s Strategies for Chip Talent” at BISA2025.
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As Donald Trump takes his seat in the Oval Office, the world braces itself for four more years of volatile leadership from a global superpower.
Join us tomorrow night (6pm - 7.30pm), as a panel of SOAS experts discuss the implications of Trump 2.0 for Asia.
🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Join us tomorrow night (6pm - 7.30pm), as a panel of SOAS experts discuss the implications of Trump 2.0 for Asia.
🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
January 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As Donald Trump takes his seat in the Oval Office, the world braces itself for four more years of volatile leadership from a global superpower.
Join us tomorrow night (6pm - 7.30pm), as a panel of SOAS experts discuss the implications of Trump 2.0 for Asia.
🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Join us tomorrow night (6pm - 7.30pm), as a panel of SOAS experts discuss the implications of Trump 2.0 for Asia.
🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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These results survive robustness checks including alternative measures of exposure and alternative weights, clusters, and estimators.
But do effects persist longer than the 4 post-storm weeks our initial survey covered? A 6-month follow-up survey reveals no long-run impacts.
But do effects persist longer than the 4 post-storm weeks our initial survey covered? A 6-month follow-up survey reveals no long-run impacts.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
These results survive robustness checks including alternative measures of exposure and alternative weights, clusters, and estimators.
But do effects persist longer than the 4 post-storm weeks our initial survey covered? A 6-month follow-up survey reveals no long-run impacts.
But do effects persist longer than the 4 post-storm weeks our initial survey covered? A 6-month follow-up survey reveals no long-run impacts.
A inspiring lecture by Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2024) at HKU
January 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A inspiring lecture by Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2024) at HKU
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We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA degree at the University of Washington. This would be the first graduate program in Taiwan Studies in North America and the second in the world. Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025 admission: jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/acade...
Academic Programs - Taiwan Studies Program
Taiwan Track in East Asia Studies The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various
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December 18, 2024 at 11:46 PM
We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA degree at the University of Washington. This would be the first graduate program in Taiwan Studies in North America and the second in the world. Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025 admission: jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/acade...
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Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
December 18, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
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This week, I will talk with @KoriSchake and @dandcaldwell about US national security policy. www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
US national security policy: What to expect in the first 100 days of the next administration
This online panel will explore key questions on the future of American foreign policy and its implications on global security.
www.chathamhouse.org
December 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM
This week, I will talk with @KoriSchake and @dandcaldwell about US national security policy. www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
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Chip nerds: don’t miss this great episode of ChinaTalk, covering updated and future US export controls against China —hosted by @jordanschneider.bsky.social
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EMERGENCY POD: Biden's Final Export Controls Misfire?
Podcast Episode · ChinaTalk · 12/03/2024 · 1h 31m
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December 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Chip nerds: don’t miss this great episode of ChinaTalk, covering updated and future US export controls against China —hosted by @jordanschneider.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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It’s out! Happy to share my new @intsecurity.bsky.social article, about how China’s rise shifted the balance of power back to bipolarity.
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Balance of Power
Abstract. China's rise, Russia's military resurgence, and India's economic growth have prompted debates about the end of unipolarity and the future balance of power. Such debates are a staple of inter...
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November 13, 2024 at 6:47 PM
It’s out! Happy to share my new @intsecurity.bsky.social article, about how China’s rise shifted the balance of power back to bipolarity.
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...