AA Bastian 卞曉菁 | باستيان

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Freelance Journalist, Professional Interpreter @ForeignPolicy, Journal of Burma Studies, Honorable Mention “Japanese Carp”-75th Writers Digest Competition, https://aabastian.com Rep'd by Amy Collins: The Dispatch: Rogue Americans in 19th C British Asia

New author headshot. Red-brown curly hair. Blue-gray glasses. White skin. Blue blazer with brown ribbed shirt.
New York Times article: 09/24/25 (with a photo of the UN General Assembly) “U.N. General Assembly Updates: China, for First Time, Vows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate conference that his country would seek to reduce emissions by at least 7 to 10 percent by 2035. Ukraine’s president appealed for more weapons to fight Russia and warned of the dangers of a new arms race.
Screenshot of the Library of Congress homepage. The photo is of me interpreting at the National Book festival in 2024. The headline reads: Authors Announced for Sep. 6 National Book Festival.
Screenshot of the Times for July 3, 2025. “A trade war escalation could cancel events for next year’s 250th Independence Day—or raise a health and safety nightmare.” With a photo of iconic buildings in Washington DC at night with fireworks.
New Haven Museum building
Washington Post Breaking News: NASA astronauts who were stuck in space for 9 months safely splash down in Gulf of Mexico The return of Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore marks the end of a saga that began when thrusters on their Boeing Starliner capsule malfunctioned during a test flight last summer to the International Space Station, prompting NASA to bring them home on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. They were joined on the return trip by NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russia’s Aleksandr Gorbunov, who spent six months on the orbiting laboratory.
French ambassador’s home with a large (but smaller than the one in NYC) lady liberty statue draped in the Ukrainian flag.
Bian is the English pronunciation of the Chinese character in my name. Here it is defined as a surname.
25 Speed Limit sign with cardboard sign with handwritten words: FOX-ING
New York Times headline: A 9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pager Attack is Mourned in Lebanon. Photo is of her casket and a red flag.