US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
@sheenagreitens.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea. Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
I shared some of my predictions about the Trump-Xi summit this week for @carnegieendowment.org's Emissary with @sheenagreitens.bsky.social, @tongzhao.bsky.social, and Yukon Huang. As expected, the meeting was largely a temporary easing of tension—a good outcome for status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
What to Watch When Trump and Xi Meet in Washington
The real test may come after the leaders leave the room.
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Randy Schriver on the US–Australia alliance: "I think it's incumbent upon the United States to continue to show ourselves as a good partner and an alliance partner, where we can help generate mutual benefit alongside our partners in Canberra." #SISF2026
In our upcoming issue, Editor-in-Chief Sheena Chestnut Greitens previews how military force must align with broader statecraft to achieve political ends. Read her introduction to Vol. 9, Iss. 4: tnsr.org/2026/09/on-w... @sheenagreitens.bsky.social #GrandStrategy #ForeignPolicy #Defense
New project w/ Cameron Waltz & a terrific @utaustin.bsky.social student team, building on work @carnegieendowment.org. We examine China's construction of police training facilities & how this fits with the priorities of Xi's Global Security Initiative: www.tearline.mil/public_page/...
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@anthropic.com new threat report (Sept 2026) documents three PRC operations, disrupted Jan to Jul 2026, that used #Claude to monitor #Tibetan targets. The Central Tibetan Administration, @savetibet.bsky.social & @sfthq.bsky.social are named. A short thread on what it says (& what it doesn't.) 🧵
Wrote for this issue of @tnsr.org about lessons from history for how to use military means to pursue broader political-strategic ends. Feels particularly appropriate at the moment.
Texas National Security Review@tnsr.org · last mo.In our upcoming issue, Editor-in-Chief Sheena Chestnut Greitens previews how military force must align with broader statecraft to achieve political ends. Read her introduction to Vol. 9, Iss. 4: tnsr.org/2026/09/on-w... @sheenagreitens.bsky.social #GrandStrategy #ForeignPolicy #Defense
In the introduction to our fall issue, Editor-in-Chief Sheena Chestnut Greitens examines why integrating force with broader statecraft remains central to world politics. @sheenagreitens.bsky.social #NationalSecurity #InternationalRelations #GrandStrategy
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The 2026 iteration of the Harvard-MIT IR Summer Reading Group has wrapped up! 📚 For our format innovation this year, each week a guest (non)-speaker circulated work in progress, which we discussed and provided feedback for over lunch (this year's line-up is below)
The UT Asia Policy Program has just opened its call for applications for our annual exec ed workshop in DC in September. Early career national security/foreign policy professionals with an interest in China are welcome to apply:
The UT Asia Policy Program has just opened its call for applications for our annual exec ed workshop in DC in September. Early career national security/foreign policy professionals with an interest in China are welcome to apply:
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
“Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics” is now out. To my knowledge, this is the first book that considers how instructors can teach about autocracy in a university setting. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea...
Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics
‘This is a terrific and thoughtful book about a question our field has overlooked: how to teach the politics of authoritarianism well. Filled with creative ideas and practical tools, it will be invalu...
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Tune in at tnsr.org/2026/07/25-y.... @hooverinstitution.bsky.social #Geopolitics #Taiwan #MilitaryStrategy
25 Years of the US-China Commission: Taiwan, Tech Competition, and Over-the-Horizon Risks - Texas National Security Review
Twenty-five years after its creation, how does the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission evaluate the evolving threat landscape? TNSR Editor-in-Chief Sheena Chestnut Greitens hosts Randall…
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SCMP: China’s MSS think tank CICIR warns in report against European-led Nato 3.0 expansion in the Asia-Pacific – ‘“Nato 3.0 … will further expose the contradiction between US hegemony and European autonomy, leaving the alliance increasingly out of step with a multipolar world,” the report said.’
China report warns against European-led Nato 3.0 expansion in the Asia-Pacific
The alliance’s expanding military cooperation in the region will leave the bloc ‘increasingly at odds’ with multipolar world order.
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What did North Korea take from the Soviet collapse? Benjamin R. Young argues Pyongyang drew one conclusion above all: strengthen ideological control and build nuclear weapons. Read now: tnsr.org/2026/07/savi... @dubstepindprk.bsky.social #NorthKorea #NuclearWeapons #NationalSecurity
North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) has been renamed the General Reconnaissance and Intelligence Bureau (GRIB) en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
N. Korea to expand intelligence agency's role against 'potential enemies' | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, July 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has called for expanding the functions and missions...
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Based on this @tnsr.org article, also by @ebrewer.bsky.social. tnsr.org/2026/06/what...
What Good Is a Nuclear Threshold Capability? Lessons from Iran’s Nuclear Program and Recent Regional Conflict - Texas National Security Review
The 2023–25 conflict in the Middle East was the first regional conflagration in which Iran was a nuclear threshold state. In theory, nuclear latency can confer strategic benefits, as Iran’s adversarie...
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Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social · 3mo agoVery good Horns of a Dilemma episode on Iranian nuclear hedging, deterrence, signaling, etc, with @nti.org’s @ebrewer.bsky.social. tnsr.org/2026/06/iran...
More from Eric Brewer on Iran’s threshold nuclear status and deterrence strategies, in conversation with Ankit Panda on Thinking the Unthinkable. @warontherocks.bsky.social @ebrewer.bsky.social @nktpnd.bsky.social warontherocks.com/episode/thin...
Revisiting Iran's Nuclear Threshold
Ankit Panda speaks with Eric Brewer about his Texas National Security Review article on how Iran managed — and ultimately mismanaged — its nuclear threshold...
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Aron Lund@aronlund.bsky.social · 3mo agoBased on this @tnsr.org article, also by @ebrewer.bsky.social. tnsr.org/2026/06/what...
We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1/ China exports its security strategy to portray the system as a public safety success and not a human rights failure, says @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Sheena weighed in for @nytimes.com, based on research with @ibkardon.bsky.social and @cameronwaltz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/w...
China Is Testing Its State Surveillance Model Abroad
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Chinese security officers have arrested an American citizen who studies politics in Myanmar and accused him of endangering national security.
China Has Arrested U.S. Scholar Who Studies Myanmar Politics
The arrest of U Min Zin, a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley and founder of a research group in Myanmar, took place soon after President Trump met with Xi Jinping in China.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in North Korea on Monday after hosting back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin last month.
China’s Xi to Visit North Korea After Meetings With Trump, Putin
By Claire Lee Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in North Korea on Monday after hosting back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin last month. China, ...
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Hilarious, actually, as I’ve had to retool my team’s professional translation processes repeatedly over the last 6 months as LLMs infiltrate formerly good tools and break old machine-assisted processes. Those tools now routinely make up passages or omit entire paragraphs from the source
Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4mo agoOk .... this is where the increasing lack of language skills is taking us. If you don't know Korean, maybe leave the study of Korean history to those who do.
China’s Ministry of Public Security is frequently portrayed as a domestic law enforcement agency. But it’s also a global security actor – and it allows China to advance its vision of security abroad. More from @sheenagreitens.bsky.social, @cameronwaltz.bsky.social, & Sophie Zhuang:
China’s Police and Security Cooperation Agreements
China’s Ministry of Public Security is often portrayed as a domestic law enforcement agency, but it is also a global security actor. This paper explores how MPS has used international law enforcement…
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Great @newyorktimes piece with lots of detail on local response to China's security outreach to the Solomons. Kudos David Pierson & Berry Wang for a terrific read: nytimes.com/2026/05/27/wor…
