Neysun Mahboubi

Administrative law / Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host the China Studies podcast, @Zhengfawei80, @LawAnGovernance

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

It was my great honor to speak with @meredithchenn at some length on how the landscape of U.S.-China relations looks to me now, especially through the prism of academic exchange, as part of the @SCMPNews Open Questions interview series:

https://t.co/BSty6b0e7q

[Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations @PennUSChina]

Next week, our new Transpacific & Asian Dialogue on China (https://t.co/VJ0Cy8xwcI) will hold its first in-person workshop, hosted by @nuseai. If you are in Singapore, you can join us on campus for the public session, featuring 5 of the 22 Fellows participating in this initiative

[Selina Ho @selinalcho]

Come join our discussion on Asian perspectives of China! In person or on webinar! June 11, 4.30pm SGT @lkyspp @NeysunM

[The Wire China @thewirechina]

Earlier this month @thewirechina reported on the expulsion of a @nytimes journalist from Beijing, and the chain of events that has led to the smallest number of U.S. reporters on the ground in China since the normalization of diplomatic relations.

Read:
https://t.co/a4JCEYTJos

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

The New York Times Calls for Reinstatement of China Correspondent. Read more in a statement from Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor of The New York Times.

https://t.co/hJhqDyJOAe

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

I think this is the first time where the NYT has acknowledged Vivian’s reprehensible expulsion after some months of quiet efforts to solve her case. Sad to see and further evidence of the fragile, contingent nature of U.S.-China “stabilization” these days.
https://t.co/717jCnKtts

[Xiaoyu Pu @pu_xiaoyu]

US-China academic exchange has faced real challenges on both sides. But the choice is NOT between naïve engagement and no dialogue (total decoupling).@NeysunM has been a thoughtful leader in practicing constructive dialogue while understanding the risks and constraints.

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

@pu_xiaoyu 🙏🙏

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

@chris__pc I thought about that, but some things need to be said clearly.

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

Someday I guess Jackie will find out that the China Crossroads series (https://t.co/dbByREWWa7) of public talks is not what she thinks it is, but in the meantime I guess I have an amazing new anecdote to share of what happens when folks build up fever dreams based on limited info

[Jackie Deal @JacquelineNDeal]

Briefing a Chinese audience in China on America's new China experts looks like a counterintel risk.

Especially when the briefing is "supported by" Chinese law firm JunHe, which:

-has partners in CCP intel;
-hosts a CCP cell;
-explicitly trains lawyers to serve the Party 🧵👇

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

@Profleoyu No, definitely not. I am generally proud of our field. We just have to keep it going.

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

@McReynoldsJoe This is not my first rodeo — of *course* that’s what I’m going to do. My attitude is: I get to say whatever I want to say, whatever the venue — including here and there. I’m an academic, this is our job. If we’re not speaking hard truths, then we’re not doing our job.

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

This is so tiresome, I’ll be done engaging on this after this post, but I can’t resist noting the irony that my own academic talk — which is public! — risks being shut down by Jackie sitting in the U.S. We are truly through the looking-glass if we view this world through her lens

[Jackie Deal @JacquelineNDeal]

The host later elaborates that not only are U.S. government reps barred, but even academic talks are "sensitive" and risk being "shut down."

Source: https://t.co/HuDDK4mmL3

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

I couldn’t possibly imagine a better anecdote to illustrate what happens when people build-up elaborate analytical frameworks with limited on-the-ground knowledge. It’s the perfect case study. From a nat sec perspective, is it better for us to know what we’re talking about? Yes!

[Daniel Schoolenberg @DSchoolenberg]

@JacquelineNDeal No reason to be coy. That was a bad faith aspersion on him and his work, which can have real-world consequences.

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

Pretty funny to get trolled randomly out of the blue by a colleague (we are both non resident senior fellows in @FPRI’s Asia Program) for giving a public talk in an event space of a law firm in Shanghai. Amazing 😂😂

[Jackie Deal @JacquelineNDeal]

Hey @NeysunM,

JunHe has clear CCP links.

And yet you are going to Shanghai to update them on training China watchers @Penn.

In whose "trenches" are you working?

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

@china_laborlaw 🙏🙏🙏

[Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM]

If you’re in Shanghai in June…

[Ryan Hass @ryanl_hass]

8/ So long as both leaders remain invested in extending the uneasy calm, this arrangement can hold. Count me skeptical, though, that Trump or anyone around him believes the concept of "constructive strategic stability" has set boundaries that will alter the relationship. END.

[Daniel Schneiderman @SchneidermanDM]

Thrilled to be a part of helping my friends and colleagues @PennUSChina as an even closer partner in shaping and informing the work of the project and its fellowship cohort! Thanks to my friends @NeysunM @AmyGadsden @mgmillerpenn for this!

[Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations @PennUSChina]

We are delighted to welcome 3 new Contributors to our project community: Leah Anderson, the executive director of @SNFPaideia; Mark Lambert, the former head of “China House” at the U.S. State Department; and @SchneidermanDM of @PennWashDC.
Read more here: https://t.co/0IeuUM5SXm