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Victor Shih

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Director of 21st Century China Center and Ho Miu Lam Chair at GPS of UCSD. Expert of Chinese elite politics, economy, and finance. RT does not mean endorsement.

Seattle, WA

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Joined August 2009

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Victor Shih

2 years

How do dictators maintain power for life? I explain in a new book that they can stay in power by forming "Coalitions of the Weak" composed of tainted or inexperienced officials. Not a loyalty-competence tradeoff but one of institutions vs patrimonialism

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Coalitions of the Weak

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Coalitions of the Weak

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Victor Shih

4 years

This really is bizarre gear. Is this policeman very afraid of being identified? If so why?

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4 years

China did not buy the world any time. As Comrade Zhou Xianwang pointed out on CCTV, 5 million people left Hubei before January 22nd

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Lijian Zhao 赵立坚

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3. Chinese spox: Countries like Singapore, ROK took necessary measures & put the epidemics under control because they made full use of this precious time China bought for the world. As for whether US availed itself of this window, I believe the fact is witnessed by US &the world.

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2 years

Dear @Twitter when we do a search on any Chinese city name in Chinese, this is what we get: ads and spams for prostitution and mistresses. Even these ads are probably not real, just govt bots trying to reduce news of China

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2 years

This is simply astonishing

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Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao mysteriously escorted out of the Great Hall of the People ahead of an expected speech by President Xi at the end of the CCP's Party Congress

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It is incredibly daunting to follow in the footsteps of @SusanShirk1 who did so much for China studies, US policy toward China and for @21CenturyChina . I am grateful that my colleagues place so much trust in me.

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Congratulations to @vshih2 who has been named the new director of @21CenturyChina at @GPS_UCSD . “We are proud of the impressive trajectory of @21CenturyChina under the transformative leadership of @SusanShirk1 ," said @UCSanDiego Chancellor Khosla.

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Wow, @NewYorker published an entire interview w me on Xi and the trade war.

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A Political Economist on How China Sees Trump’s Trade War

A discussion with Victor Shih about the biggest dangers to the Chinese economy, what the Communist Party thinks of President Trump, and whether China has entered a new era of repression.

www.newyorker.com

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1 year

Love this one from wechat

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Victor Shih

4 years

Horrific picture tallying the number of infected and suspected infected medical staff in various hospitals in Wuhan. They are the heroes

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Victor Shih

5 years

I tweet this only because that’s genuinely how the party wants the world to be. Thus I don’t think this image is derogatory at all

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Victor Shih

4 years

Authoritarian regime not needed

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Wen-Yee Lee 李玟儀

4 years

Zero #Covid19 case over the past 10 days. This is what life in #Taiwan looks like. 😘

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Victor Shih

5 years

Here is why this matters: If the Chinese government can order the HK police to stay clear while thugs beat people, it can also order HK police to stay clear while a billionaire is kidnapped

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Kinling Lo 盧建靈

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NOW IN #HONGKONG : Hundreds of men in white tee have been spotted near #YuenLong train station tonight. They were seen hitting and going after all young people dressed in black (which suggests they went to today’s protest). This video makes my heart break. #HongKongProtests

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This university by the way is where the “party consciousness” is the strongest

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Victor Shih

5 years

As you consider summer camps for kids, let’s keep in mind the “little intelligence officer” camp in China

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5 years

The latest fake news from the party propaganda machine about HK. It’s sooo fake but people believe it

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4 years

Why would China mind that the US is treating HK like the rest of China?

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Hua Chunying 华春莹

@SpokespersonCHN

4 years

If the #US has no intention to interfere, why is it so mad and afraid? The national security legislation is just like a security door to better protect the safety and freedom inside. Why would anyone be mad with others for installing a security door at their own home?

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Victor Shih

2 years

China says it will ‘strictly limit’ citizens from going abroad | Financial Times /wow what about students who want to study abroad????

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China says it will ‘strictly limit’ citizens from going abroad

Plan to tighten controls on ‘unnecessary’ overseas travel underlines commitment to zero-Covid policy

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Victor Shih

11 months

I honestly don’t understand what the big deal is. In political science, a “dictator” is simply a leader selected through undemocratic means who can dictate policy outcomes to a large extent in a country. Many leaders fit this definition and it’s by no means negative

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New Zealand PM disagrees with Biden, says Xi Jinping not a 'dictator'

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Victor Shih

4 years

Folks who believe this is just like a typical flu should watch this video of 2 minutes in a Wuhan Hospital. Warning: not for the faint of heart or children

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Victor Shih

4 years

Eh cat is out of the bag. Please visit our Chinese elite portal which allows you to subset and visualize over 1700 CCP elites (full, alt CC, prov stdcomm members) by gender, education, native place, alma mater

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Jonathan Cheng

4 years

"Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui produced close to 40% of the 19th [Central Committee] elite. Meanwhile, Guangdong, …one of the wealthiest areas of China since 1978, produced only 13 political elite out of a cohort of over 1000." @vshih2

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Victor Shih

2 years

With coauthors like @YashengHuang @fravel and Lily Tsai, MIT writes a very well thought-out strategy for engaging with Chinese academic institutions. All major university systems should have a strategy like this:

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Report by the MIT China Strategy Group

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China’s Military Spending Is Much Bigger Than We Thought / sounds about right to me

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China’s Military Spending Is Much Bigger Than We Thought

Revised figures based on US intelligence give an estimate of $700 billion a year instead of the official figure of $300 billion.

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Victor Shih

4 years

Ok here is the great conundrum of official Chinese statistics. If they can suddenly add 15K new cases in Hubei in one day, who is to say they can’t add another 10K tomorrow in Hubei, or another 15K outside of Hubei next week. We need very detailed info on how they collect data

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Victor Shih

2 years

Our Chinese elite data portal has been updated and now include provincial standing committee and Central Committee elites from the 15th PC to the 19th PC. Also, their jobs at the time of congress has been included so you can visualize thousands of subsets

Elites - China Data Lab - UC San Diego

The China Data Lab CCP Elite Portal allows users to visualize the key characteristics of over 2000 Chinese Communist Party elites, active government officials now starting from the 15th Party...

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Victor Shih

2 years

Well worth it to remind ourselves the payoff of China’s zero Covid strategy. Life continues in most places as pre Covid. The costs are high but the payoffs are enormous also. It’s like staring into a different world….

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Tanner Brown

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Come with me on a frenetic tour of Chongqing street food. Watch the old man at the end flash me his QR code because he thinks my filming is actually me paying him.

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Victor Shih

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In a new paper, Elkobi & I scrape the most comprehensive local govt & LGFV bond issuance data of 35K issuance and finds over 50 trillion RMB in local bonds outstanding. For 12 provinces, monthly debt servicing is > 100% of monthly revenue. For 15 provinces over 50% of revenue 1/2

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Victor Shih

4 years

“Zoom..appears to own three companies in China through which at least 700 employees are paid to develop Zoom’s software. “ so the other thing that is likely true is that the Zoom subs have CCP party committees. See

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6 years

The brave few

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Victor Shih

4 years

I am seeing many accounts of people in Wuhan getting rejected by hospitals and not getting treated despite severe symptoms. The WHO team needs to investigate this instead of going from one model hospital to another as arranged by the Chinese hosts

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Victor Shih

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@k_sonin So three main theories now. 1. He was sick (doesn’t look that way) 2. He tested positive for Covid (but results should’ve been out before start) 3. He was very displeased about the new central committee list and might have said something unpleasant to Xi (plausible for me)

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Victor Shih

4 years

Great scoop by ⁦ @Lingling_Wei ⁩ and the circled quote below should be the first principle for investors as they invest in China

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Victor Shih

2 years

Sorry I am genuinely pissed about this. China supposedly can censor everything on the internet. Yet the disgusting video of the heinous shooting in Buffalo can still be seen on #wechat . Not sure how widespread it is but I saw it in my group

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Victor Shih

4 years

It’s not hard; it’s called double blind randomized trials

@globaltimesnews

Global Times

@globaltimesnews

4 years

It's very hard to assess the effectiveness and safety but we should address both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which have their own strengths in different cases, and #TCM works well: analysts #COVID19

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Victor Shih

2 years

I actually think he looks quite nice in this color and Peng positively glows. Is that a cross in the middle of his belly?

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Taylor Swift Wows Chinese Women Tired of Xi’s Conservative Era / soft power is just messages that really speak to people

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Taylor Swift Wows Chinese Women Tired of Xi’s Conservative Era

Women belting out feminist lyrics that denounce gender inequality. Teenagers in glittery dresses dancing to songs celebrating LGBTQ freedoms. The number 1989 — the most sensitive year in modern...

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Victor Shih

1 year

Ten cops gang up on a single person holding a yellow flower.

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Xinqi Su 蘇昕琪

1 year

#BREAKING League of Social Democrats leader #ChanPoying was taken away minutes after she showed up with a small candle for #TiananmenMothers and two yellow flowers. She resisted and tried to uphold what she had in hands.

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Victor Shih

6 years

This was the most circulated photo of the US-China trade talk in China today

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Victor Shih

1 year

So my class figured out today that even if all of China were to implement a 0.7% property tax (same as California), it would only pay for 1/4 of the local government debt servicing for the majority of the months this coming year…怎么办

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Victor Shih

4 years

Why are the regimes in Russia and Iran still in power despite years of sanctions? What's the prognosis for China as growth slows down? Get insights from the top experts in the newly published book "Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability"

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Victor Shih

9 months

Wow long time China watcher Willy Lam has a new book on Xi. I will have to get it and read

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Xi Jinping

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Victor Shih

1 year

didn’t know this but apparently at the G20, Xi called on more countries to join China’s health code system on their phones😂😂 “中方提出建立基于核酸检测结果、以国际通行二维码为形式的健康码国际互认机制，希望更多国家参与。”

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Victor Shih

6 years

You want to hear something scary? Chinese FIs (incl. HK) have borrowed 1.5 trillion dollars from the rest of the world, and you wonder who is financing OBOR. The answer is all of us!

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Victor Shih

4 years

For those who think that Chinese citizens have a lot of money, here is a study that shows that 73% of people made less than 550 dollars a month in 2018

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Victor Shih

3 years

Anyone who says people of China cannot govern themselves is lying

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今天适合发这个视频吗？

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6 years

That’s a really random sign

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Victor Shih

4 years

UW Medicine halts use of coronavirus testing kits airlifted from China after some had contamination – The Seattle Times / the usual quality control issue

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UW Medicine halts use of coronavirus testing kits airlifted from China after some had contamination

The story of the testing swabs illustrated what authorities are willing to risk to secure more supplies for COVID-19 testing.

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Victor Shih

3 years

This is an actual book

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Victor Shih

2 years

via @NYTimes “A new survey of more than 20,000 people, mostly female between 18 and 31, found that two-thirds of them didn’t want to have children” shocking for a mid income country. Leaders should reflect on why

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‘The Last Generation’: The Disillusionment of Young Chinese (Published 2022)

Many believe that they’re the most unlucky generation since the 1980s as Beijing’s persistent pursuit of the zero Covid policy wreaks havoc.

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Victor Shih

11 months

Who is the guy wearing sun glasses indoors?

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Iain Marlow

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US delegation across the table from Chinese 😎

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Victor Shih

5 years

this from wechat, wow

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Victor Shih

2 years

It seems local fiscal troubles in China are getting quite serious. It’s not an issue of default but lack of funds for normal operations and wages

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Victor Shih

2 years

Saw this on wechat, it’s pretty extreme if true

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Victor Shih

3 years

the local fiscal situation in much of China is so much more messed up than even I could imagine....really wonder what's the end game....

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Victor Shih

4 years

The world would love to take a close look

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Victor Shih

2 years

If massive scale food distribution doesn’t happen soon in Shanghai, law and order may not hold. Hunger is 底线

@TuCaoFakeNews

新闻/真话

2 years

实在太饿了，上海一男子想开车出去买菜，结果被警察拦住，他与警察争吵起来，意想不到的是，小区所有的居民其实都在盯着这场冲突，他们一起高喊给男子助威，因为他们也和男子一样饿

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Victor Shih

11 months

Chinese economists have studied the Japan case for years and now their fear has become reality

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China is falling into a “balance-sheet recession," according to the economist who coined the phrase to explain Japan’s descent into stagnation in the 1990s

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Victor Shih

5 years

Why have moderate China watchers turned against China? The party executed a Nobel peace prize winner by denying him medical attention and set up concentration camps for Chinese citizens!

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Why the US’ moderate China watchers are growing sceptical of Beijing

Amendment of constitution removing term limit of the presidency and activity in South China Sea cause a shift in perceptions.

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Victor Shih

2 years

Still three to four months away from @CUP_PoliSci , but it is starting to feel real!

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Biden, Xi to Announce Deal for China to Crack Down on Fentanyl / very glad about this, and an important moment for US and China

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Biden, Xi to Announce Deal for China to Crack Down on Fentanyl

Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are set to announce an agreement that would see Beijing crack down on the manufacture and export of fentanyl, according to people familiar with the...

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Victor Shih

5 years

Wow, HK #HKprotests signs appearing in Seattle

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Victor Shih

2 years

Thank you for having me @klustout and for highlighting my book at the beginning!

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Kristie Lu Stout✌🏽

2 years

"This one man rule... is going to generate uncertainties." Here's @vshih2 on the future of power in #China with #Xi Jinping firmly in control. We also discuss the #Hu Jintao incident as well as the lack of women in the Politburo and what it means for #genderequality in China.

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Victor Shih

2 years

Yes I wholeheartedly agree with this

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Michael McFaul

2 years

Chinese leaders and academics have studied intensely the Gorbachev to avoid his mistakes. They should, however, be studying the Brezhnev era: economic stagnation at home; overreach abroad.

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Victor Shih

3 years

My students showed me this Hua Chunying bot on github which automatically generates MFA praise or condemnation of other countries' actions. It's pretty awesome

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Victor Shih

10 months

Bankers Forced to Study Xi’s Thoughts as Party Tightens Grip /some bankers are spending 1/3 of their time on this? And you wonder why banks are not helping the economy….

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Bankers Forced to Study Xi’s Thoughts as Party Tightens Grip

Xi Jinping Thought is becoming inescapable for bankers and businesspeople across China.

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Victor Shih

2 years

I knew I was ahead of the pack back in 1996

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Victor Shih

1 year

To those who say engagement is over:what does that even mean when bilateral trade is close to a trillion dollars and tens of millions of Americans spend the best part of their days on a Chinese social media platform? There is a high level of engagement, just not between officials

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Victor Shih

4 years

Here is why mass testing is urgent in the US. Hospital will have to treat the 10-20% of infected needing intensive care. Pretending it’s not a problem will not get around that, so it’s much better to get a handle on the extent of infection and adequately prepare for it

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Rachel Donadio

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The head of the Lombardy's intensive care crisis unit says the health system is on the brink of collapse, intensive care being set up in hallways. By March 26 they predict ~18,000 #Covid19 cases in Lombardy, of which ~3,000 will need intensive care.

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Victor Shih

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A master class by Xu Chenggang with ⁦ @LiYuan6 ⁩ . Prof Xu proposed the hypothesis that zero Covid was a negative shock to investors and consumers willingness to invest/ spend. This actually can be tested with data!

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‎不明白播客: 许成钢：通缩下的中国会走苏联的老路吗？ on Apple Podcasts

‎Show 不明白播客, Ep 许成钢：通缩下的中国会走苏联的老路吗？ - Aug 12, 2023

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Victor Shih

1 year

“中国这么大，不同人会有不同诉求，对同一件事也会有不同看法，这很正常，要通过沟通协商凝聚共识。” 还有要通过喝茶等达到共识

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Victor Shih

2 years

Look what I found in my closet!! I don’t think I ever wore it

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2 years

YOY revenue comparison in April among top cities in Jiangsu, just read the right column

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4 years

The dream of democracy in Hong Kong, seeded by Martin Lee and others and kept alive by successive generations, is crashing around them. / unflinching look, hurts so much to read, but a must read

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Victor Shih

5 years

This is touching, but isn't this level of support just a tad low in a city of 7 million people?

@globaltimesnews

Global Times

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5 years

Patriotic heart still beats in #HongKong : Dozens of patriotic Chinese raised the Chinese national flag and sang the national anthem at Victoria Harbor early Sunday morning. #香港

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Victor Shih

5 years

Most folks in my wechat groups of educated professionals believe arrest of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou crosses a line, makes good point that any exec of companies selling weapons to Taiwan would be breaking Chinese law

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Victor Shih

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China Set to Overhaul Financial System Giving Xi More Control / the man who borrowed hundreds of billions to build a ghost city will be directly in charge of the central bank? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

China Set to Overhaul Financial System Giving Xi More Control

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to bring decision-making of the financial system further under his control with the likely revival of a powerful committee to coordinate financial policy and the...

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Victor Shih

8 months

If you, like me, missed this awesome IMF paper on China's government balance sheet, read it now

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Victor Shih

5 years

I now have confirmation that @tencent has instituted a global ban of @NewYorker and @IChotiner ‘s interview of me on wechat. No wechat user anywhere can read it.

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1 year

感谢 @LiYuan6 老师的邀请，刚看到财政部最新的数据 “全国发行新增地方政府债券47566亿元，其中…全国发行再融资债券26110亿元” 这意味新发债券其中一半以上是为了借新还旧

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Li Yuan袁莉

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今年是中国经济特别关键的一年，不明白播客会做一系列关于中国经济的专题节目，这是第一期。地方债听起来可能有点枯燥，却是可能会影响每个中国人的问题。我问了 @vshih2 教授中国普通人为什么要关心地方债问题，地方政府财政困难是否会对中国的政治稳定造成影响，以及地方债问题最后可能会如何收场。

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Victor Shih

2 years

When Bank of China predicts 3.5% growth, things are not going well

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Victor Shih

3 years

Taiwan is a shining example of public health management in a democracy

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賴清德Lai Ching-te

3 years

On Christmas Eve I brought snacks to our CDC staff to say thank you. Without them, medical crew, and more than 450k Taiwanese who went through quarantine, we would not have made it this year. Let’s enjoy tonight, follow safety guidelines, and keep protecting each other.

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Victor Shih

2 years

It’s time to have a conversation about hate speech on wechat, just as we have done on hate speech in other social media platforms

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Los Angeles Times

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The gunman who allegedly opened fire at a Laguna Woods church Sunday appeared to be motivated by political hatred directed at the Taiwanese community, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said. The suspect was identified as a 68-year-old Las Vegas man.

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1 year

Wait this is him voting, not announcing the results, so why clap?

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ABC中文

1 year

#习近平北京时间今天上午9时，第十四届中国全国人大一次会议第三次全体会议将选举国家主席、中央军委主席、全国人大委员长和国家副主席。中国领导人习近平走上主席台投票。

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Victor Shih

2 years

Yeah I showed this to some colleagues in China (on zoom of course) and they were shocked. I was shocked when I saw this. The notion that Ukraine will distract the US from China is not happening

@fravel

M. Taylor Fravel

2 years

New Pew polling on US views of China..negative views continue to grow

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Victor Shih

3 years

I can't contain my excitement that I found a website where Xi Jinping's essays are read out loud one by one, great for meditation.

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Victor Shih

7 years

Aight, my word count comparison of 18th and 19th PC opening speeches— not good

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Victor Shih

3 years

This is an important metric. The party is directly destroying the wealth of China’s fledging tech sector

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Victor Shih

4 years

Says the man who has parked much of his assets in the UK, US and Australia

@business

Bloomberg

4 years

Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoon, defends Hong Kong security law as China’s right

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Victor Shih

5 years

Wow just witnessed a case where a US academic withdrew a paper on China from consideration at a top US journal due to “political sensitivity”. I wonder what the back story is....

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Victor Shih

3 months

reason why the Chinese stock market hasn’t performed well is not b/c the regulators have been inept or some financial cabal has shorted the market but because net income of listed companies has fallen and is not expected to rise. Firing regulators won’t help (graph from Kroll)

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Victor Shih

3 years

My colleague pointed out to me this interesting new paper on the "private" sector in China, finds that the majority of private firms are within two steps of major SOEs https:/faculty.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/faculty/chang-tai-hsieh/research/special-deal-special-investors.pdf

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Victor Shih

1 year

Very excited to read this tour de force written by the top political economists of China Tsai, Pearson, Rithmire . And it’s a free download from @CambridgeUP

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Victor Shih

2 years

Hey was just notified that paper version of my new book "Coalitions of the Weak" will ship early June (thank you for those of you who ordered); Kindle version available now. For Chinese history buffs, the book answers a few key questions : (cont'd)

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Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy...

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Victor Shih

1 month

What the..? These have appeared all over Southern California. This of course is the media that denies anything went wrong on January 6th

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Victor Shih

1 year

Dear Comrade Harvard graduate, there are so few foreigners left in China. What is the source of “foreign influence” besides Marx and Engel of course?

@ChairmanRabbit

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@ChairmanRabbit

1 year

3) for any "foreign force" - let's assume there is any (based on my instinct), the bar is low, the target limited, the expectatio modest: anything it want to achieve is to have anything to occur at all, and wish some ripple effect therefrom. that is pretty much all about it.

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Victor Shih

11 months

I am sure Putin has tried calling Xi by now. Did Xi take the call? Why hasn’t there been a Chinese announcement of unwavering support?

@CGTNOfficial

CGTN

11 months

Russian President Vladimir #Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip #Erdogan held a phone call on Saturday over the latest situation in #Russia , Russian media reported.

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5 months

No one can analyze China’s political economy as Wu Guoguang can. Another must-listen episode of ⁦ @bumingbaipod ⁩ by ⁦ @LiYuan6 ⁩

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‎不明白播客: 吴国光：2023年中国政坛为何怪事频频？ on Apple Podcasts

‎Show 不明白播客, Ep 吴国光：2023年中国政坛为何怪事频频？ - Dec 23, 2023

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Victor Shih

2 years

This picture says so much

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Victor Shih

6 months

Wow this is pretty shocking from a very established authority on macroeconomics in China

@whyyoutouzhele

李老师不是你老师

@whyyoutouzhele

6 months

“我不知道” 11月22日，在北京举行的《财经》年会2024：预测与战略现场，主持人提问中国社科院委员，金融专家李扬，当前中国经济的种种问题咱们的文件上也有，问题也都看到了，为什么具体落实和执行就那么难？李扬笑着回答：我不知道。然后匆匆下场

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Victor Shih

2 years

By far the most important panel on the domestic PE of China featuring Scott Rozelle, @MaryGao , my GW advisor Marty Whyte, @melovely_max 2/3 of Chinese workers are condemned to subsistence wages in the gig economy and can never be middle class earners

China’s Entrenched Inequality Problem: A Big Data China Event

Join the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) for the launch of the second feature of their collaboration, Big Data...

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Victor Shih

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Hard to believe that ⁦ @bumingbaipod ⁩ has only been around for 1 year. It has had such a massive impact on the Chinese speaking world and has made us all smarter. Thank you ⁦ @LiYuan6 ⁩ !!

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‎不明白播客: 不明白播客 × 不好意思請問一下：Ask Me Anything on Apple Podcasts

‎Show 不明白播客, Ep 不明白播客 × 不好意思請問一下：Ask Me Anything - Jun 16, 2023

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