Policy: An Early Career Guide REVISED!

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Great, you want to be a policy analyst in a topic vaguely adjacent to ChinaTalk. How to get started? The following is my attempt to put my best advice in one place, supplemented with input from people I admire. What follows is biased towards my personal experience, namely working in China-adjacent policy research outside of academia in the US and building the ChinaTalk newsletter and podcast, though much of what I say likely applies more broadly outside the US and to other policy areas. Writing online is the most surefire way to get your first job in policy. There is more supply than…

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