December 2020
The Promise and Perils of Chinese Democracy: Hong Kong and Taiwan
December 11th, 2020 Speakers: David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall University Moderator: Joseph Fewsmith, BU Pardee School of Global Studies Video Link: A BUCSA Forum 2020 by [...]
To get young Hongkongers to take up mainland job opportunities, build trust and avoid politics
David Zweig South China Morning Post 19 December 2020, 6:45am: Those who want to work on the mainland will go, but the government should not expect a one-off policy to resolve anti-mainland sentiment among Hong [...]
Backchat, Sino-Australia relations / Chinese spacecraft landing on the moon
Link: rthk.hk/radio/radio3/ BackChat: 4 December 2020 Hugh Chiverton and Danny Gittings Sino-Australia relations / Chinese spacecraft landing on the moon On Friday's Backchat: Part 1 : with Mark O'Neil, Professor Mahoney who teaches at [...]
October 2020
Overseas Students, Returnees, and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao China
David Zweig: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Feng Yang: University of California, Los Angeles This paper applies the model of diffusion outlined by Solingen (International Studies Quarterly, 56, 2012, 631) to the [...]
August 2020
How China can show the US that its Thousand Talents Plan has nothing to hide
David Zweig and Kang Siqin South China Morning Post 26 August 2020, 8:45am: China can end the secrecy over the plan’s contracts, payments and participants, setting US minds at ease and allowing scientific collaborations [...]
Chinese Politics – China and Political Science: Parts 1 & 2
Dear Friends, colleagues and others interested in China, I just passed another milestone in my career! In 2015, at the request of my former university, HKUST, I worked for several months with a great [...]