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Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP

“Xi’s view is really tit for tat. If you engage, they will engage. If you want to throw a punch, Xi is going to throw a punch,” says Jessica Chen...

Fellows Speak Out on Democratic Threats

This year’s fellows will engage with major news media on nationalism and populism, civil-military relations, international human rights, and more.
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The final year of this prize

The Asian Studies Department of Cornell University is pleased to announce the Kyoko Selden Translation Prize for 2022 in this, our final year of the...

Eswar Prasad, SAP

Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy, says it’s “interesting that the leadership seems to have allowed at least some room for the...

Jeremy Wallace, EAP

“Given the reality that China has basically had so little devastation in terms of health effects, it would really crush the narrative. And I think...

Karim-Aly Kassam, Global Public Voices/SAP

“In order to solve a problem, we need multiple ways of knowing,” said Karim-Aly Kassam. “Other people see things because of their cultures, because of...

Jeremy Wallace, EAP

“To me, this feels very familiar, at least this part of it: the idea of kind of not trying to make a scene, trying to reduce backlash in the moment,”...

Linda Shi, Global Public Voices

“Florida has seen lots of apocalyptic disasters. As long as it’s a storm-based event, people are not going to dramatically switch where they live,”...

Eli Friedman, EAP

“For the first time under Xi Jinping, we have a nationwide protest movement,” says ILR professor Eli Friedman in an interview in Vox.