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Thanks so much for the kind words! Your work has been deeply influential on me. This really means a lot to me.

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The power of local governments in China is a really big deal in areas like climate policy, but I've never seen a good analysis (not that I've looked hard). Even basic questions like: can the central government sack provincial leaders (or, more importantly, local administrations en masse ) if they fail to follow the central line. If so, how are the replacements selected.

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Kacie Miura is my professor and she is fantastic. She teaches at USD (University of San Diego), not UCSD (University of California, San Diego). It is a very easy mistake to make

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As much as I enjoyed Farrell and Newman’s as well as Miller’s books, I think a proper contextualisation of economic statecraft is needed to understand it - and Nicholas Mulder’s ‘The Economic Weapon’ is an unsung hero in this regard.

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