Yuen Yuen Ang

@yuenyuenang

Prof Polisci | Andrew Carnegie Fellow | Author 📚 ᕼOᗯ ᑕᕼIᑎᗩ EᔕᑕᗩᑭEᗪ TᕼE ᑭOᐯEᖇTY Tᖇᗩᑭ + 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖆'𝖘 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖊𝖉 𝕬𝖌𝖊 | Global citizen 🌐 cultural nomad 🐪

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Joined March 2017
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    Sep 23

    I'm incredibly honored & stunned to be awarded the Theda Skocpol Prize from the American Political Science Association 🙏😀 I am TRULY stunned A thread about my solid track record of failure, and a powerful two-word advice from Prof Skocpol

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  2. 15 hours ago

    The objective is not to ensure that they “catch up” with the wealthier groups per se, but rather to transform the lives of the majority, who live in rural areas, *with the resources that are available*. - I call it "using what you have"

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  3. 15 hours ago

    "The diaspora is on board. Their equity is their family living in Africa – the family they work so hard to support."

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  4. 15 hours ago

    3⃣ quotes stood out to me - "But this is what leadership is about: finding answers to difficult questions, using the instruments at hand." - As someone said: If it's easy, someone would already have solved it.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Tweets have become citable. Thank you for the shout-out. Yes, we normally think of innovation as exclusive to first-world capitalist econ, big tech companies, private sector, rich, urban & educated people. In fact, innovation happens everyday outside of these groups.

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  6. 16 hours ago

    Excited to see interview in , on entrepreneurship & innovation as the real driver of poverty reduction in Africa and double excited 🤩 to see his tweet of my book cited Link:

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Challenge: Come up with a bigger surprise than this 👇

    Neil deGrasse Tyson warns asteroid could hit Earth the day before the election
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    Oct 19

    "If this [expelling foreign journalists] remains the case, it is likely that the gap between foreign perceptions of China and reality will continue to widen." Prof explains why China might benefit from having foreign journalists on the ground.

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    Oct 19

    When letters of recommendation go wrong: "Despite coming from an ethnic minority, I find her to be one of the most broad-minded volunteers I’ve ever worked with."

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  10. Oct 19

    The course syllabus is here:

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  11. Oct 19

    CC:

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  12. Oct 19

    "As someone from rural Ohio, I was rarely able to meet people from China or with a Chinese background… I had two choices, step into vulnerability, or remain comfortable distancing myself from what was different from me." - by Andrew Gerace

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  13. Oct 19

    "It’s funny, growing up a New Yorker –– You always think you know it all… But then, I started to talk to people. I happened across new faces, new languages, new experiences." - by Madeleine Gannon

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  14. Oct 19

    In America, whether one lives in a megacity or rural town means vastly different opportunities for exposure to China and the world. Yet there are commonalities. Two blogs from my students in a GLOBAL CHINA 🌐🇨🇳 course, one from Manhattan & another from rural Ohio

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  15. Oct 19

    "There are 3 paths before us: (1) Change the highest structure to match a radically changed economy, (2) Change the economy and regress to match the highest structure, and (3) Change neither and maintain the dual status quo."

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  16. Oct 19

    "At a crossroad" is not just a widely used term in the West - it also appears in Chinese policy discourse Essay from Li Youwei, former party secretary of Shenzhen

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  17. Oct 19

    #2: Ngaire Woods "multilateral organizations are changing, not collapsing"

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  18. Oct 19

    Two contrasting views #1: The UN Security Council, the most important component of the UN system, has made itself largely irrelevant.

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  19. Oct 19

    As the United Nations celebrates 75years amid multiple global crises, can the UN reinvent itself, or will it sink into irrelevance?

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    Oct 19

    Rozelle’s “Invisible China” is a must read. All we read about are fancy mega cities and urban elites, while children in rural areas are literally starving. My friends in Beijing w/o the right hukou were forced to leave kids in home villages, seeing them twice a year if lucky.

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    Oct 18

    "...in Southeast Asia, the Trump admin’s anti-China advocacy is not likely to find a receptive audience. A number of government officials have indicated that the Trump admin is out of touch with the diplomatic reality on the ground."

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