Commentary

Trump’s election will likely reverse U.S. climate action.” Good Authority. November 7, 2024.

How Do We Know What’s Happening in China?Foreign Policy. November 4, 2024.

China’s 75th anniversary tries to downplay the struggling economy.” Good Authority. October 7, 2024.

The Vibe is Wrong. Review of Brett Christopher’s The Price Is Wrong.ChinaLab. June 24, 2024.

More Clean Energy Is Good, Even If It Comes from China.” Heatmap. January 29, 2024.

Good to Know: The US Commitment to Taiwan.” 2024.01.10. Good Authority. January 10, 2024.

Was the COP28 climate meeting a cop-out – or something bigger?. Good Authority. December 14, 2023.

What the clean energy boom means for fossil fuel communities. Good Authority. November 21, 2023.

Back to face-to-face: What you need to know about the Biden-Xi summit. Good Authority. November 16, 2023.

Are U.S.-China relations on the mend? Good Authority. October 19, 2023.

What China’s economic slowdown means for the world. Good Authority. September 20, 2023.

China’s Old Economic Model Is Breaking. Its Replacement Might Be Green. Heatmap News. August 24, 2023.

China’s Solar Boom Is Big, Fast, and Unstable.
Heatmap News. May 26, 2023.

Why Does China Remain Locked on Growth Targets? Noema. May 16, 2023.

What China’s Economic Resurgence Means for the Planet. Heatmap News. April 20, 2023.

The Carbon Triangle. Phenomenal World. February 2023.

Interview: Jeremy Wallace on The Chinese State’s “Limited, Quantified Vision”. China Digital Times. December 2022.

Why protesters are targeting Xi Jinping for China’s ‘zero covid’ failures. Monkey Cage. November 2022.

Is China Losing GDP Religion?. The China Project. November 2022.

Xi’s First Steps in Power Signaled His Political Turn. Foreign Policy. November 2022.

Why China Aims Too High. Foreign Affairs. October 2022.

Spirals of Delusion (with Henry Farrell and Abe Newman). Foreign Affairs. August 2022.

The Ukraine War’s Shadow on China’s Road to Decarbonization. New Security Beat. May 2022.

 The Catastrophic Success of China’s zero-COVID policy. LA Times. May 2022.

Political Science, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change. The Strong Paw of Reason. January 2022.

Xi Jinping wants ‘common prosperity’ in China. He might not be able to make it happen. Monkey Cage. October 2021.

Numbers Aren’t Reality, but You Can’t Govern Without Them. Foreign Policy. December 2020.

Op-Ed: China’s Coronavirus Statistics Aren’t the Real Problem (with Jessica Chen Weiss). LA Times. April 2020.

China is reporting big successes in the coronavirus fight. Should we trust the numbers? Monkey Cage. March 2020.

Is Xi Jinping now a ‘leader for life,’ like Mao? Here’s why this is dangerous. Monkey Cage. February 2018.

Here’s why it matters that China is admitting that its statistics are ‘unreliable’. Monkey Cage. December 2015.

The political implications of China’s stock market crisis. Monkey Cage. August 2015.


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