Neysun Mahboubi

It was my great honor to speak with @meredithchenn at some length on how the landscape of U.S.-China relations looks to me now, especially through the prism of academic exchange, as part of the @SCMPNews Open Questions interview series: amp.scmp.com/news/china/dip…

In my FP piece, I explore why China’s sudden reversal on its banquet dining crackdown came about. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/25/chi… What began as a well-intentioned anti-corruption directive was taken to extremes by an overzealous local bureaucracy. The result was a chilling effect on the…

EU-China summit is underway in Beijing. In this thread I will collate interesting points from remarks and readouts through the day. First, Xi Jinping's opening remarks, as run by CCTV this morning news.cctv.cn/2025/07/24/ART…

Am very much looking forward to moderate this @USCET webinar on Tuesday in conversation with @SusanShirk1, Peter Hessler, & @NCUSCR’s Savannah Billman, reflecting on how study in China impacted their lives and careers

scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…

It was a poll! I was but the humble pollster. And yet still I am called to account 😂

With a 3rd round of U.S.-China trade talks now scheduled for July 27-30 in Stockholm, I'm very much looking forward to discuss the present moment in bilateral relations with my dear friend @trudyrubin in this @FPRI Asia Program webinar next Thursday 7/31: fpri.org/event/2025/sta…

Sweden will host continued trade negotiations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China early next week. The two countries’ willingness to meet here to try to reach an agreement is a positive development. The discussions primarily concern relations between…

NYT: “Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service—The man, a U.S. citizen, is barred from leaving China by the Ministry of State Security, the country’s main intelligence and counterintelligence agency.” @ewong nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…

The Chinese government is preventing a Chinese American banker for Wells Fargo and, separately, an employee of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from leaving the country, reports said Sunday. upi.com/amp/Top_News/W…

We forced a bot to watch 10,000 hours of academic writing then asked it to produce an article. It told us it would start next month when things will have probably settled down but it also has a new idea for an interesting, unrelated article

I walked out of jury duty at Philadelphia City Hall yesterday and right into Questlove delivering a drum roll in front of Ryan Howard Cole Hamels Larry Bowa Charlie Manuel Bryce Harper Trea Turner unveiling that 2026 All Star game will be hosted by the @Phillies

Chairman Mao once said, 革命不是请客吃饭， A revolution is not a dinner party. Now I think P2P exchanges are not dinner parties. It could be challenging and risky. I am so happy that Neysun and I can work together to organize some non-dinner-party P2P events successfully.

In our latest #CISSPodcast, @CISSTsinghua invited Prof. Neysun Mahboubi @NeysunM to have a dialogue with director @mawangcun1 to share his observations and thoughts on people-to-people exchanges and youth dialogue between China and the United States. podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/cis…

A June afternoon during my recent visit to Beijing, I visited @CISSTsinghua to record this podcast interview with Prof @mawangcun1. One of my favorite conversations from throughout my 2 months in China, and I’m thrilled to see it posted on their feed today podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cis…

“Anything that it does vis-à-vis other countries only makes sense through the lens of its positioning vis-à-vis the United States. Everything else is secondary—and if I were…those countries, I would not get too comfortable with perceived Chinese support.” wsj.com/world/the-faul…

“China’s priority is China’s interests,” said @NeysunM Mahboubi, director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. “Above all, China is very conscious of its geopolitical competition with the United States.” wsj.com/world/the-faul…

Hawley Aims to Roll Back Medicaid Cuts He Voted for Just Two Weeks Ago via ⁦@meganmineiro⁩ nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/…

🎧 @WilliamHenagan joined me to discuss the state of U.S. foreign aid six months into the Trump administration. Humanitarian programs have been slashed and recent innovations like the Development Finance Corporation may soon end. rb.gy/51x6f7

@ryanl_hass at @BrookingsInst spoke to The Monitor, making the case that negotiations are the only viable option for the U.S. and China. open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p/t…