Zenobia Chan

Political economist studying economic statecraft, tech, and Chinese foreign policy @Georgetown @GUGovt @ISEAS

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

TL;DR from my @ISEAS Fulcrum piece: China is scaling up Southeast Asian studies, but scale is not understanding. A system that rewards ideological legibility over open-ended inquiry may miss what makes the region hard to grasp.

[ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute @ISEAS]

Fulcrum Commentary by Zenobia Chan - The US appears to be losing to China in the race to understand Southeast Asia. The real test, however, centres on whether a country can sustain the institutions to study the region critically. https://t.co/1Sa1drQvjp

[International Security @IntSecHarvard]

3) “What Does China Want?” by @daveckang, @ZenobiaChan, and @SiuHeiWong2

https://t.co/XEBOEdnRxb

This article is ungated thanks to @mitpress!

[Maksim Zubok @antndlcxr]

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[Desmond Shum @DesmondShum]

I keep running into “China experts”
I remember my college days that I need to go to school library for China news on WSJ. I usually need to flip to page 12 before finding a sliver of news. Today every piece of news has a China angle. And, you find China experts / analysts everywhere.
Next time you meet a China expert or read from a China expert ask these questions
- have they met the subject that they are analyzing?
I found them usually have never met the person they are analyzing, not even someone in the category of the person they are analyzing
- how they build their knowledge and expertise?
Many of these ppl done it by reading books, papers by other “experts”, news articles …. By reading, not by practicing. Most of them have never been in business in China, forget about in politics in China
- Who do they know?
Many of these “experts” only are able to met ppl at the periphery of power in China, if even that. Also, I question their ability to qualify the info they received. CCP has installed an atmosphere of fear for Chinese to share information w foreigners.
I found western academia and think tanks are full of these theorists. They form a cohort and fend for one another. Patting one another on the back, writing blurbs for one another’s books, interviewing one another to promote one other…. It’s a business. It’s a career
Garbage in garbage out. Fanciful theories leads to terrible decisions.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

“Why does your reality differ from ours?”

[Sarah Miller @smilleralert]

A celebration of Michigan labor 😊

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@ShaunaGillooly @LKonken @noel_hypothesis Happy to answer questions by email

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@bitmeehan @OgLakyn Some polyesters do have desirable properties like wrinkle resistance and machine washability. Love and own cashmere, wool, and silk, but not having to go to the dry cleaner (or to hand-wash) is nice...

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@rjschoner At least it's not snowing yet!

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@Nolan_Mc You can have a Princeton Google Drive without Gmail https://t.co/8EHOvi946T

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@IWaismelManor @poli_com Happy to help!

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

“I didn’t know that Princeton sends us stock market alerts,” said my colleague

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

To tell people that their experiences aren’t real or valid because they don’t meet some threshold for statistical significance across a large population doesn’t account for the breadth & nature of AI’s impacts on the world. 10/
@natematias @ZenobiaChan https://t.co/E6j1smhuBL

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

Latest manuscript w/ @natematias @HeadsUpPenny on N-of-1 trials and the effects of a grayscale screen on phone usage: https://t.co/CdSydrMQU2

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

@tara_slough We usually get a soft copy by email or on Canvas, Blackboard, etc. before the first class. Some profs would explicitly mention that they aren't bringing hard copies to the class.

[Zenobia Chan @ZenobiaChan]

Very honoured and grateful to be working on my dissertation under a @USIP-@DoDMinerva fellowship this year

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Forthcoming in RIO: "Behind the screen: Understanding national support for a foreign investment screening mechanism in the European Union" by Zenobia T. Chan & Sophie Meunier, https://t.co/5zyqOeIAgi, @Springernomics, @The_PEIO, @ZenobiaChan, @SophieLMeunier

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

1/ Exclusive: An @HKFP investigation reveals a multi-million dollar failed lobbying effort by #HongKong to urge US politicians not to support the Human Rights & Democracy Act, which paved the way for sanctions on top officials including leader Carrie Lam.

https://t.co/Qp25VFLMUf