“The jealousies of the traditional national security dilemma are now spilling over into the global economy.” Read @himself.bsky.social, @abenewman.bsky.social, and @yelingtan.bsky.social on the global race to weaponize economic chokepoints:

The Chokepoint Trap

Niall Ferguson, the leading historian of empire, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and AI scholar Lisa Klassen offer a novel reframing of the US-China AI race in the history of world empires. The author...

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China's economic security growth model and implications for the US-China security dilemma Important new analysis of China's economic and foreign policy integrated model Sophisticated political economy @piie.com by the amazing Prof @yelingtan.bsky.social Yeling Tan www.piie.com/publications...

China's economic security growth model and implications for the US-China security dilemma

Traditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather, China has adopted a model in which national secur...

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2/To limit escalation/miscalculation, we urgently need more work on the underpinning markets as well as the dynamics of strategic interaction as per Paul’s substack. @himself.bsky.social and I also have something cooking with @yelingtan.bsky.social out soon. direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

Washington thought coercion would keep China down. But as @yelingtan.bsky.social @Mark Dallas @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social show, it did the opposite. Dependence became danger — and China learned to turn US pressure into its own power. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/america-th...

America, the Bumerang Master

How Washington Built Chinese Leverage Over...Washington (on Tan, Dallas, Farrell, Newman)

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Hedged globalization reflects most countries’ desire to have nothing to do with today’s superpower competition, observes @yelingtan.bsky.social.

The Emergence of “Hedged Globalization”

Yeling Tan highlights the steps countries are taking to avoid becoming pawns in the US-China competition.

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Professor @yelingtan.bsky.social on #BBCRadio4 today at 4pm BST discussing the UK's relationship with China 👇

Ravi Naik@ravinaik.bsky.social · last yr.

US tariffs have left many countries wondering what President Trump will do next. But should the UK align more closely with China? Listen to Rethink on BBC Radio 4 with @benansell.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'China is ready for this fight.' Professor @yelingtan.bsky.social features in @theatlantic.com's latest piece on the escalating trade war between the US and China. 👇

What If China Wins the Trade War?

The United States could still prevail if it does everything right. The problem is that the Trump administration is doing everything wrong.

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New article alert! How US shocks provide a focal point for reorganizing China’s domestic tech policies + institutions

International Studies Quarterly@isq-jrnl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Analyzing close to 0.5mil Chinese news articles&an original corpus of policy docs, @yelingtan.bsky.social, Mark Dallas, @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social find that US shocks produce a shift away from technological interdependence, toward security-focused self-reliance tinyurl.com/sqaf017

Thank you @projectsyndicate.bsky.social for the honor!

Blavatnik School of Government@blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 Congratulations to Professor @yelingtan.bsky.social on being named to @projectsyndicate.bsky.social's Forward Thinkers list! Her work on globalisation, development & policy in China and Asia is helping shape global conversations. 🌎 Read more👇

'At the end of the day, the fate of the two giant economies will remain intertwined.' Prof @yelingtan.bsky.social shares her insight in @fortune.com's latest on rising trade tensions between China and the US 👇

Trump's 'punitive' China tariffs could end trade between the world's two largest economies—and that would be painful, volatile and dangerous

Can U.S.-China trade survive in a post-145% tariff world?

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What are countries like Côte d'Ivoire supposed to do? 90% of their exports to the U.S. are cocoa beans and natural rubber - can you build those behind the tariff wall? No. My latest for @piie.com on the disaster these #tariffs may mean for many resource-dependent developing economies.

Peterson Institute for International Economics@piie.com · 2y ago

The new tariffs do not mirror tariffs developing countries impose on the US, nor account for different economic conditions & fiscal realities shaping tariff regimes in poorer countries—& ignore basic realities of institutional capacity, resource endowment, & geography. By @cullenhendrix.bsky.social:

‘China now faces a delicate balancing act.’ Professor @yelingtan.bsky.social features in @theguardian.com as #China condemns the new #tariffs placed on them by the US. 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

China condemns ‘unilateral bullying’ as it calls on US to drop tariffs

Chinese commerce ministry says ‘there is no way out for protectionism’ as tariffs rise from 20% to 54%

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Interesting from NYTimes on US jobs exposed to retaliatory tariffs in Trump:Harris counties: China tariffs ~2.3 to 1; EU ~1.5 to 1; Canada ~1.3 to 1. EU & Canada, >6m US jobs exposed. China, <1.6m. China retaliatory tariffs smaller in jobs magnitude, but more intensely targeting Trump counties.

Join us for our conference on China and the World on Thursday March 20! Co-hosted with Oxford’s China Centre, Columbia University and Harvard University.

Blavatnik School of Government@blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 2y ago

EVENT: 2025 Annual China and the World Programme Conference 🇨🇳 Join Prof Yeling Tan and fellow China experts from Oxford, Columbia & Harvard for a deep dive into great power rivalry, geo-economics & global tensions. 📆 20 March, 9:00-18:00 at the School Register ⬇️