Commentary and congressional testimony

"Will Beijing cut Trump some slack after that phone call with Taiwan?" Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, December 6, 2016 (with Kacie Miura).

"Here's what China's people really think about the South China Sea," Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, July 14, 2016.

Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Hearing on Reviewing President Xi's State Visit, October 7, 2015. (Full text of statement)

"Q&A: Jessica Chen Weiss on Nationalism in Chinese Politics," with Edward Wong, New York Times, September 24, 2015.

"Chinese Nationalism: The CCP's 'Double-Edged' Sword," The Diplomat, November 25, 2014.

"What the Protests Mean for the Future of A Democratic Hong Kong," Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, Sept. 30, 2014.

"The Flame of Chinese Nationalism," Foreign Policy, Sept. 17, 2014.

“China and Vietnam: Riots and the Risk of Escalation in the South China Sea,” China-US Focus, May 29, 2014. (with John D. Ciorciari)

“Nationalism and Escalation in the East China Sea,” China Policy Institute, November 14, 2013.

Testimony on "Nationalism and China's Maritime Disputes,” Hearing before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April 4, 2013. (transcript of oral testimony)

"China and Vietnam: Danger in the South China Sea," China-US Focus, January 10, 2013. (with John D. Ciorciari)

"Nationalism and Anti-Japan Demonstrations in China," The Monkey Cage, September 19, 2012.

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Media interviews and mentions

Quoted in "Pick for top diplomat seen as tight with the president," Associated Press, March 14, 2018.

Quoted in Robert Delaney, "Experts applaud Trump for firing 'out-of-step' Tillerson and bringing clarity to his China and North Korea policies - and they say McMaster could be next," South China Morning Post, March 14, 2018.

Quoted in Catherine Lai, "Hurt feelings: how foreign brands are proving to be a soft target as China wields its power," Hong Kong Free Press, February 25, 2018.

Quoted in Michael Holtz, "With thaw toward S. Korea, Beijing shelves patriot games - for now," Christian Science Monitor, November 29, 2017.

Quoted in Robert Delaney and Zhenhua Lu, "US defence chief tells North Korea to cease threats that risk 'end of regime and destruction of its people,'" South China Morning Post, August 10, 2017.

Quoted in Jesse Johnson, "China cries 'fake news' in reaction to report about U.S. Navy chief Harris," Japan Times, May 9, 2017.

Quoted in Zeeshan Aleem, "I read Trump's trade adviser's anti-China book. It's wilder than you can imagine," Vox, April 6, 2017.

Quoted in Cary Huang, "Will dream shared by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump become a nightmare?" South China Morning Post, April 5, 2017.

Quoted in Hannah Beech, "Children's Books and China's Crackdown on Western Ideology," The New Yorker, March 16, 2017.

Quoted in "Trump has 1.3 billion reasons not to pick a fight with China," Bloomberg, January 25, 2017.

"US-China Flashpoints in the Age of Trump," A ChinaFile Conversation, January 18, 2017.

Quoted in Zeeshan Aleem, "Why Rex Tillerson's comments on the South China Sea have Chinese state media up in arms," Vox, January 13, 2017.

Quoted in Cary Huang, "Is Obama's Diplomatic Legacy About To Be Erased?" South China Morning Post, January 10, 2016.

Quoted in Chris Buckley, "Trump's and Xi's Differences Magnify Uncertainties Between U.S. and China," New York Times, December 19, 2016.

Quoted in Cary Huang, "Are Trump's America and Xi's China on a Collision Course?" South China Morning Post, December 17, 2016.

Quoted in Tom Phillips, "Chinese state tabloid warns Donald Trump: 'pride goes before a fall,'" The Guardian, December 12, 2016.

Quoted in Zeeshan Aleem, "Trump is trying to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip with China. Bad idea." Vox, December 12, 2016.

Quoted in Caren Bohan and David Brunnstrom, "Trump says U.S. not necessarily bound by 'one China' policy," Reuters, December 12, 2016.

Quoted in 蔡晓颖, "分析：特朗普上台后两岸关系会有重大变化吗?" BBC Chinese 中文网, December 8, 2016.

Quoted in Stephen Collinson, "Trump and China on collision course," CNN, December 5, 2016.

Quoted in Jesse Johnson, "80% of Japanese fear military clash around Senkakus, poll finds," Japan Times, September 14, 2016.

Quoted in "Mao's long shadow: a difficult discussion for China," AFP, September 8, 2016.

Quoted in Jesse Johnson, "China puts Japan in cross hairs with blistering, sustained attack over alleged role in sea ruling," Japan Times, August 2, 2016.

Interview with Michael Lipin, "What's Behind China's Pattern of Stoking & Quashing Nationalism?" VOA China 360 podcast, July 23, 2016.

Quoted in Julie Makinen, "In US-China game of chicken over South China Sea, KFC feels the heat," Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2016.

Quoted in Andi Wang, "Dried Mango Has Become An Unlikely Symbol of Chinese Nationalism," PBS NewsHour, July 16, 2016.

Quoted in "Has the South China Sea ruling pushed China closer to a future war with the US?" South China Morning Post, July 14, 2016.

Quoted in Eric Fish, "Surveys found majority of Chinese actually supported South China Sea arbitration," Asia Society Asia Blog, July 14, 2016.

Interview with Michael Holmes, CNN international, July 13, 2016.

Quoted in Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, "After South China Sea Ruling, China Censors Online Calls for War," Foreign Policy, July 12, 2016.

"China’s Claims in the South China Sea Rejected," A ChinaFile Conversation, July 12, 2016.

Quoted in Jennifer Staats, "Puzzled by China's Foreign Policy? Look Inside Instead," US Institute of Peace, April 28, 2016.

Quoted in Nicholas Wu, "Domestic Troubles in the South China Sea Crisis," China Hands, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 2016.

Quoted in Chun Han Wong, "Beijing Charts Course Between Nationalism, Diplomacy in South China Sea," Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2015.

"Making Waves in the South China Sea," A ChinaFile Conversation, October 28, 2015.

Quoted in Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Fergus Ryan, "'Stop Boasting and Fight,'" Foreign Policy, October 27, 2015.

Quoted in Hannah Beech, "A Show of China's Military Force Serves as Drumroll for US Visit," TIME Magazine, September 21, 2015.

Quoted in Edward Wong and Jane Perlez, "Beijing Turns Into Ghost Town as It Gears Up for Military Parade," New York Times, September 3, 2015.

Quoted in Emily Rauhala, "China to Cut 300,000 Soldiers, Speed Up Military Modernization," Washington Post, September 3, 2015.

Quoted in Vincent Ni, "透视中国：为何怪罪“敌对势力”做空股市?" BBC Chinese, July 22, 2015.

Q&A with Peter Larson, "3 Questions with Jessica Weiss," China Focus, July 19, 2015.

Quoted in Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, "Riding the Tiger of Anti-U.S. Sentiment in the South China Sea," Foreign Policy, June 1, 2015.

Quoted in Lucy Hornby, “China’s Comfort Women,” Financial Times, March 20, 2015.

Review of Powerful Patriots, Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015 issue.

Quoted in Ben Dooley, "China brings sex slave issue into spotlight," Japan Times, January 9, 2015.

Interview with Radio France International concerning "One Country, Two Systems," December 21, 2014.

Quoted in Eric Fish, "A glimpse into Chinese nationalism," The Diplomat, November 7, 2014.

Review of Powerful Patriots, Richard McGregor, "The party and politics of popular protest," Financial Times, November 2, 2014.

Interview with Natalie Ornell, China Digital Times bookshelf, October 27, 2014.

Quoted in "解析'中国梦'的民族主义元素," Voice of America, October 23, 2014.

Interview with MSNBC, "Hong Kong protests not backing down as police remove barricades," October 13, 2014.

Q&A with David Wertime, "A New Era for Hong Kong," Foreign Policy, October 10, 2014.

Quoted in David Lynch, "China's Long Game With Taiwan Just Got Longer," Bloomberg, October 8, 2014.

Q&A with David Wertime, "Are Hong Kong's Protesters Getting Bamboozled?" Foreign Policy, October 3, 2014.

Quoted in Zack Beauchamp, "An expert explains how Hong Kong's protesters could actually win," Vox, October 2, 2014.

Interview with MSNBC, "China Blaming Western Influences for Hong Kong Protests," October 2, 2014.

Quoted in Jessie Lau, "Dozens of US universities stage rallies in support of Hong Kong's protesting students," South China Morning Post, October 2, 2014.

Quoted in Andrew Sullivan, "Neither Cracking Down Nor Backing Down," The Dish, October 1, 2014.

Podcast interview with the National Committee on US-China Relations, September 23, 2014.

Video interview with the Asia Society's ChinaFile, September 11, 2014.

Written interview with Wei Xing, "白洁曦谈中国民族主义," Oriental Daily (东方早报), September 3, 2014.

Mentioned in Edward Wong, "Q&A: Edmund Malesky on Vietnam and China," New York Times, June 30, 2014.

Mentioned in Alicia Wittmeyer, "The Delicate Art of Managing an Authoritarian Protest," Foreign Policy, May 13, 2014.

Interview with BBC World concerning Chinese protests over disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, March 25, 2014.

Mentioned in James Fearon, "Conflict in the East China Sea: Home Board Game Edition," Washington Post Monkey Cage, December 16, 2013.

Quoted in Rachel Lu, "Patriot Flacked: Why a nationalist screed warning of Western encroachment has just gone viral in China," Foreign Policy, December 5, 2013.

Quoted in Julie Makinen, "Anti-Japan protests in China spread to more cities," Los Angeles Times, September 16, 2012.