Chris Carothers
banner
chriscarothers.bsky.social
Chris Carothers
@chriscarothers.bsky.social
Research and writing on authoritarianism in China and East Asia. Working at Foreign Service Institute; Wilson Center China fellow; scholar at UPenn.

Views expressed herein represent me alone.
Do Europeans realize how condenscending China's elites are about them?

I'm watching a Fudan professor on state TV give a talk about EU-China relations and...oh boy is it bad 1/n
July 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Even if professors established a dictatorship in the classroom, students still wouldn't do the readings....

jamestown.org/program/nobo...
Nobody Cares About the Party’s Recommended Readings
Executive Summary: The Propaganda Department’s top books from 2024 highlight those by Xi Jinping, as well as ones focused on military themes, Party history, and China’s place in the world. This offici...
jamestown.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Are they NGOs or CCP operatives?

A good example of how the CCP hides its influence over an organization through giving it a dual identity...

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
April 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm pleased to share this new article with co-author Zhu Zhang about why China's ruling institutions often operate with dual identities.

We coin the term "institutional doubling."

This one is for the real China governance nerds!

@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Chris Carothers
Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
Backsliding and Resistance in the United States – Ash Center
In this webinar, Professors Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky will discuss what can be learned from mobilization and opposition to autocracy in the United States based on historical examples, and wi...
ash.harvard.edu
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What does the CCP say about America to its citizens? A thread based on my new study with Joshua Freedman 👇

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media
www.cambridge.org
February 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Chris Carothers
Analysing 1,761 editorials about the US published between 2003–2022 in People's Daily,
@chriscarothers.bsky.social & Joshua B. Freedman investigate CCP messaging about the US in the contemporary era.
doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001528
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media
doi.org
February 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Reposted by Chris Carothers
Few Americans have opted to be immunized against the coronavirus so far this fall: Just over 7 percent of adults and 2 percent of children had received a Covid-19 vaccine as of Oct. 14

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/h...
Few Americans Have Gotten the New Covid Shots, C.D.C. Finds
About 7 percent of adults have rolled up their sleeves for the new vaccines, according to new agency data.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Me: prepare a 45-minute presentation.

Academics: A two-hour presentation, got it.

Senior academics: a completely unprepared presentation, got it.
October 27, 2023 at 5:51 PM
I feature amazing work being done by @bnovak.bsky.social and @machinavelli.com
New article out!

I discuss how autocrats often exploit natural language barriers to say racist and xenophobic things at home while playing to an international audience...

www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the...
October 21, 2023 at 2:05 AM
New article out!

I discuss how autocrats often exploit natural language barriers to say racist and xenophobic things at home while playing to an international audience...

www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the...
October 20, 2023 at 7:23 PM
"The number of people who get paid from the U.S. Treasury but work for private businesses and nonprofits is now more than three times the entire on-payroll federal civilian workforce."

Wow.

www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the...
October 16, 2023 at 10:25 PM
Why Polarization Won't Stop Washington's New Bipartisan Consensus on China

By me and Taiyi Sun

uscnpm.org/2023/10/05/w...
October 5, 2023 at 9:55 PM
Yay, John Oliver and Colbert are back!

I'm basic but I accept it...
October 3, 2023 at 12:44 PM
I’m excited to share my 🚨new article🚨 with Sun Taiyi, Bipartisanship on China in a Polarized America, out now in International Relations.
 
We document the emergence of the “new China consensus” in DC – the idea that the US must compete with & counter China. Here is what we found… 🧵

tiny.cc/91nbvz
September 28, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Reposted by Chris Carothers
For Dictatorsky's second showcase of the week, we have this awesome paper by @andrewleber.bsky.social, @chriscarothers.bsky.social, and Matthew Reichert on the personalization of power & oversight in dictatorships.

Polisky

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
When Can Dictators Go It Alone? Personalization and Oversight in Authoritarian Regimes - Andrew Lebe...
Why are some autocrats able to personalize power within their regimes while others are not? Past studies have focused on the balance of power between the autocr...
journals.sagepub.com
September 27, 2023 at 3:46 PM