@michelonismo Please ask your Chinese proletarian comrades: how many hours do you work per week? How much rights do you have? BYD’s construction workers in Brazil is a vivid example
@iliyailineya If you know China well you would not ask this question. Countless protests about environmental protection; Sun Zhigang incident which ultimately amended the law; white paper revolution; Jack Ma and Ren Zhiqiang’s public appeals. Please read before ask
ICYMI | Covering the Big Tigers in China
Check out our fast track article by Yixuan Zhang on patronage ties and political signaling within elite circles in China.
Read: https://t.co/Ys7qrxYzMp
Check out new @ChinaDataLab analysis exposes growing gaps in China's judicial transparency & launches the Court Case Availability Portal (2013–22).
https://t.co/GASOlG4cu5
SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER INTERESTING STUFF IN @Gov_Journal
"Elite bargains and policy priorities in authoritarian regimes: Agenda setting in China under Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao"
https://t.co/Wedkmb7TGf
important report confirming what we've known all along: Iran (& Russia) use of RMB is not de-dollarization, as they have to maintain a shadow network to turn the inconvertible RMB into dollar, euro (via offshore RMB, HKD, etc) to spend https://t.co/jmX61w3AxK
Ou-Yang & Zhou show that economic slowdowns, not just downturns, erode political support in China. Using five waves of the ABS and national and provincial analyses, they highlight the political risks of weakening performance legitimacy.
https://t.co/LnwXqcOfBf
📢Call for Papers!
NYU Politics will host the fifth "Frontiers in Empirical Research on East Asia" conference on Jan. 14–15, co-organized by @EHWpolisci, @amycatalinac, and me. Please submit your application by Aug. 17: https://t.co/DsE6FeDDtw. Look forward to your submissions!
I’m teaching a seminar on great power relations this quarter. The full syllabus is now online. I’ll host a virtual discussion at the end of term so stay tuned for more details. Suggestions for future readings also welcome! https://t.co/9jhRdpU7cI