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Hello TEA Collaborative Subscribers,

It has been some time. I remain deeply appreciative for your interest in the TEA Collaborative over past years. You will have noticed that activity on the TEA Collaborative trailed off to full silence during the pandemic but you were never given an explanation for this trailing-off or told what to expect.

I am writing to address that now. The TEA Collaborative was a “triad x 2” model of Teaching, Engagement and Analysis focused on Technology, Energy and (Political) Ambition in China. Due to the pandemic, my masters-level course at Penn (“The U.S. & China in the 21st Century”) was abruptly and quite disappointingly discontinued in July 2020. With the loss of that teaching role, the raison d’être of the TEA Collaborative also vanished.

However, I am continuing the Engagement and Analysis pieces of the TEA Collaborative with as much passion as ever and with a sharpened focus on competition between the U.S. and China in three specific areas: semiconductor industries, artificial intelligence development and AI infrastructures (energy, workforce, etc). I am doing some of that work through my GC3 Strategy consultancy business, some of through my Senior Fellow role at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and some of it through my new China Now & Then publication on Substack.

I am writing today not just to say goodbye but also hello. I will be discontinuing the TEA Collaborative website on WordPress over the months ahead but I am opening up a new China Now & Then publication series on Substack. I am excited about this new platform and warmly invite you to join me on it here.

You will notice that this is just getting underway and that the China content is not yet disaggregated from the other themes. That will happen though and the China content will brought together in its own publication with a modest subscription fee. I am encouraging you to subscribe now — free of charge — and am offering you as a TEA Collaborative subscriber the chance to receive a free lifetime subscription to China Now & Then before it is offered to the public on a fee-basis.

If you are interested, please do so today by Subscribing here. Please note that, for this offer, you will need to select Subscribe from the prompt (remember it’s free now and will remain so for you) rather than Follow.

Hope to see you there soon.