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Eikenberry makes the case for invigorating Taiwan-U.S. relations

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In an article for Foreign Policy, Karl Eikenberry argues that the drifting Taiwan-U.S. relationship puts the stability of the Asia-Pacific region at risk. He observes that other regional allies are hedging their bets against a rising military power in China because of skepticism that the United States can keep its commitments, and outlines key weaknesses that Washington must overcome with Taipei.
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How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression

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We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented. To do this, we have devised a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts originating from nearly 1,400 different social media services all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor (i.e., remove from the Internet) the large subset they deem objectionable. Using modern computer-assisted text analytic methods that we adapt and validate in the Chinese language, we compare the substantive content of posts censored to those not censored over time in each of 95 issue areas. Contrary to previous understandings, posts with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored. Instead, we show that the censorship program is aimed at curtailing collective action by silencing comments that represent, reinforce, or spur social mobilization, regardless of content. Censorship is oriented toward attempting to forestall collective activities that are occurring now or may occur in the future -- and, as such, seem to clearly expose government intent, such as examples we offer where sharp increases in censorship presage government action outside the Internet. This is joint work with Jennifer Pan and Molly Roberts.

Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department of Government (in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and serves as director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. King develops and applies empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.

King received a B.A. from SUNY New Paltz (1980) and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, and centers, corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies.

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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is a Senior Research Scholar and the William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Dr. Lewis is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), which conducts dialogues with counterparts in China, Russia, and India; a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which is best known for setting the "Doomsday Clock"; and a member of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team. From 2022 to 2025, Dr. Lewis was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board.

He is the author of two scholarly books, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 2007) and Paper Tigers: China's Nuclear Posture (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2014), as well as a novel of speculative fiction, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States (Mariner, 2018). He is also the founder of the Arms Control Wonk blog and co-hosts, with Aaron Stein, the Arms Control Wonk podcast.

Previously, Dr. Lewis was a Distinguished Scholar of Global Security at Middlebury College, a full professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, and executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He also worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College and a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland.

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REAP highlighted in newspaper geared toward China’s top policy makers

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REAP’s efforts to narrow the rural-urban education gap in China over the past five years was recently highlighted in the newspaper of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a legislative advisory group in China with wide influence on national policy.

To read the full article, click here (in Chinese).

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Regional conflicts are no simple matter

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In trying to understand the source of a regional conflict we should avoid focusing too narrowly on a single issue of identity, said Lee Kong Chian Fellow Graham Brown during a May 15 seminar at Stanford. Brown gave examples from Southeast Asia to illustrate the complex nature of conflicts.
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Stanford conference to explore governance and the provision of public goods

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The provision of public goods and services - education, healthcare, sanitation, potable water and other government benefits - are linked to issues of governance. The Program on Poverty and Governance at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) together with the Center for Latin American Studies will host a conference on May 18-19 at Stanford University to explore how governance impacts the provision of public goods and services throughout the world.

The conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of economists, political scientists, policymakers, and public health researchers to present on-going research on the links between governance and public goods provisions. The conference will also focus on government corruption, electoral clientelism and the critical role of external actors in the provision and delivery of public goods.

According to Beatriz Magaloni, the director of the Program on Poverty and Governance at CDDRL, “A goal of the conference is to present pioneering research on the major issues facing public goods provision in developing economies and to explore a variety of institutional, political, and international factors that work to improve or hinder government capacity and accountability in service delivery.”

Conference speakers include: Stephen D. Krasner, professor of international relations and deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, commenting on external actors and the provision of goods in areas of limited statehood; Stuti Khemani, senior economist at the World Bank, who will speak about information access and public health benefits; Miriam Goldman, visiting research scholar from Princeton University, who will examine corruption and electricity in India; Edward Miguel, director of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, who will present on institutional reform through minority participation; and James D. Fearon, professor of political science at Stanford University and CDDRL affiliated faculty, and David Laitin, professor of political science and Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) affiliated faculty who will both serve as distinguished discussants.

All sessions will be held in the CISAC Conference room, 2nd floor of Encina Hall Central, and are free and open to the public. To view the complete agenda and RSVP to the conference, please click here.

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The Eighth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum

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In this eighth session of the Forum, former senior government officials and other leading experts from the United States and South Korea will discuss current developments in North Korea and North Korea policy, the future of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, and a strategic vision for Northeast Asia. The session is hosted by the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in association with the Sejong Institute, a top South Korean think tank.

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