Viz Blog

Using Twitter’s API to gather daily tweets by members of Congress, our new Congressional Tweets on China Portal (https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/tweets/) allows users to visualize and explore [...]

How does the policy sausage get made in China, where electoral institutions don’t play a significant role? This research explores the distinct mechanisms and pathways that facilitate policy [...]

How many people have been directly affected by the COVID-Zero policy and how the Chinese public feels about these lockdowns and wider COVID policies. Does some silent majority support these [...]

What’s clear is that Chinese SCSs are more ambitious than FICO and other financial credit systems and extend their purpose.  But what do Chinese citizens think of these systems, with their [...]

Drawing on years of data collection work headed up by UC San Diego’s Victor Shih and updated in the Summer of 2022, the China Data Lab CCP Elite Portal (https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/elites/) [...]

In our last blog, we showed a remarkable convergence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ negative sentiments toward China. How deep does this bipartisan consensus go? Does this consensus involve [...]

Given Chinese media environment, how are everyday Chinese citizens seeing the ongoing war in Ukraine? Do they sympathize with the victims of an invasion, or do they support Russia‘s so-called [...]

Starting here, we’ll be diving into sentiment. Overall, we find interesting bipartisan similarity in this measure since around the start of the trade war in 2018, with negativity dominating the [...]

How do MCs discuss China in the public sphere? We find that, while issues of human rights and security dominate over discussions of trade, Republicans and Democrats tend to highlight distinct [...]

Congress Tweets Part I. We ask the question: does politicians’ tweeting stop at the water’s edge? How much do U.S. politicians tweet about foreign policy, and how much do they concern themselves [...]