Juliet Lu (she/her/hers)

I tried so hard to work with the development office when we were in school... this was the general response

This was just shared with me, and it's a very cool source:

lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/research...

Next Thursday March 12, UBC's Institute for Asian Research w/ @sppga.ubc.ca & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social present our 2nd "Indo-Pacific Symposium: Shifting fault lines?" featuring regional specialists in town for @aasasianstudies.bsky.social conference.

Join us!

sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

Tomorrow! Join us!

Helen Siu is visiting UBC next week for this Hong Kong symposium - please join if available! This event takes advantage of the lead-up to the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Vancouver March 12-14.

hksi.ubc.ca/events/event...

The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation 'The Population Bomb' made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world

Somehow all roads lead to Charles Mann when I'm compiling teaching materials. Love this article...

www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/b...

China's policies to advance vehicle remanufacturing Targeted subsidies, industrial zones and funding are propelling the vehicle remanufacturing sector

China adopted the circular economy
as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...

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Late notice but China PhD Students and recent PhDs: consider applying to one of these excellent Global Affairs Canada positions!

emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

People keep asking me so I'm reposting (I'm not organizing, some amazing CAPE folks are)

Talk on Taiwan on March 4th, 1-2:30

Chris Horton, an old China friend and accomplished journalist, will be talking on his new book Ghost Nation - please come!
UBC Vancouver, Choi building 120

@sppga.ubc.ca
sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike against JBS anyway. Excellent Mother Jones x Food and Environment Reporting Network collab thefern.org/2026/02/thes...

It’s a Sunday Colin calm down you’ve been ahead of the game since you were 11

She’s 👆🏼on the 👃🏼

British Columbians will pay to electrify North Coast mining, LNG projects | The Narwhal Energy minister’s order could exempt North Coast transmission line customers from paying millions

More subsidies for fossil fuels, this one paid by BC Hydro customers. And because these contracts signed by governments and public agencies are not made public, they also undermine democratic accountability. #LNG
thenarwhal.ca/bc-public-to...

But how is it we humans evolved the universal trait of needing to put raspberries on our fingers before eating them?

We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works."

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...on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So we placed the sign in the window. ..."
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending ...."
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People Over Papers - Report ICE Activity Report and track ICE activity in your community. A community-driven platform to document immigration enforcement.

Get everyone you know following these folks:

iceout.org/en/

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

For giving, this is a very good resource for mutual aid orgs, personal fundraisers, and nonprofit/community org donations.

www.standwithminnesota.com

Besides that, the best thing you can do is prepare your own communities. If it can happen here or Lewiston, Maine, it can happen anywhere.

@cape-aag.bsky.social When is the party for 2026?!

this logic is so toxic

As Carney engages China, beware the bogeyman tropes The threat of Chinese foreign interference is exaggerated and used as a scare tactic to resist better relations with Beijing.

The biggest challenge facing Prime Minister Mark Carney when he travels to the People's Republic of China this week is not the obstructionism of Chinese officials, but the determination of some Canadians to ensure that he fails in his mission.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

The way ICE officers approached the vehicle involved in today's shooting was counter to their training, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. The official said ICE officers are trained: — never to approach a vehicle from the front; — to approach vehicles or possibly armed people in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury or cross-fire; — not to shoot at a moving vehicle; — only to use force if there is an immediate risk of serious injury or death. ICE officers are also instructed that firing at a vehicle will not make it stop moving in the direction of the officer.

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.

This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.

I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

Info on the Canada Impact & Research Training program for PhD and Postdoctoral fellows:
www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...

Indeed! One that weakens the influence of America and its allies, threatens the future safety of their citizens (while likely having no effect on drug addiction), and adds to the costs of global governance.

Exactly. One thing to do, though it narrows the issue, is counter the 'America first' component of coverage. This will make Americans less safe, cost them so much more. It is unrelated to the opiate crisis - Trump has other primary motivations - and won't make Americans safer from addiction.