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Yasheng Huang, Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline (Yale University Press, 2023).

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  1. To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump
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    To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump

    Nov 15, 2024 Yasheng Huang urges the party to adopt a long-term strategy aimed at discrediting the MAGA ideology once and for all.

  2. How to Kill Chinese Dynamism
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    How to Kill Chinese Dynamism

    Aug 18, 2023 Yasheng Huang thinks many have underestimated the key role that Hong Kong previously played in the country's growth story.

  3. China's Moment of Decision
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    China's Moment of Decision

    Mar 7, 2022 Yasheng Huang explains why the country's lower-key, less moralistic approach to Russia may prove essential.

  4. Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition
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    Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition

    Dec 14, 2020 Yasheng Huang thinks psychology, rather than demographics, provides the key to contemporary US electoral politics.

  5. Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?
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    Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

    May 22, 2019 Yasheng Huang says Chinese policymakers should repair relations with the West rather than push large infrastructure projects.

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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

     thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

     considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.

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