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Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
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Byford Tsang @byfordt.bsky.social EU-China relations, China's climate and energy policies, climate diplomacy. Think tanker at @ecfr.bsky.social
Eva Seiwert @evaseiwert.bsky.social IR & China l Senior Analyst @MERICS l Prev.: Managing Editor @9DASHLINE, Postdoc @FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pre-order my book “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s Vision of International Relations”: https://shorturl.at/VEUlf.
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Tanvi Madan @tanvimadan.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookingsinst.bsky.social. Work on Indian foreign policy, the Indo-Pacific, minilaterals like the Quad
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Andrew Small @ajwsmall.bsky.social Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
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Mathieu Duchâtel @mtdtl.bsky.social Following mostly economic security issues in East Asia and Europe, from Taipei and Paris. An eye for all things maritime. Director of International Studies at Institut Montaigne.
Tobias Scholz @tobischolz.bsky.social South Asia researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin | @swp-asia.bsky.social & @swp-berlin.org
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Kristin Shi-Kupfer @gusiting.bsky.social China: society-digital-media / Christianity & Poetry & Piano / Professor for Contemporary China Studies at Trier University
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Marc Julienne @marcjulienne.bsky.social Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
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Elli Pohlkamp @ellipohlkamp.bsky.social Geopolitical Japan Analyst, Japan-EU, Indo Pacific strategic issues/ Director of Agora Strategy Institute (ASI)/ Visiting Fellow Asia Programme at ECFRAsia / WIIS_de
Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzegorzstec.bsky.social Head of Brussels Office at Mercator Institute for China Studies #MERICS #EU #China
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
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Francesca Ghiretti @fraghi.bsky.social Economic security and China
Research Leader China and Economic Security at Rand Europe; Non-resident Fellow at Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies @CSIS; host of the podcast Geoeconomic Competition. Former MERICS, IAI
Tara Varma @taravarma.bsky.social Managing director at the @gmfus.bsky.social | Interested in geopolitics: Asian and European security, and women’s rights. Views my own.
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only.
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Etienne Soula @etiennesoula.bsky.social China-focused researcher at GMF, foreign authoritarian interference, information manipulation, economic coercion, and more. It’s a brave new world out there.
Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
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Thomas Eder @thomaseder.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) | China's foreign and security policy | Major power relations | Global governance | Ex-MERICS, University of Vienna, Austrian Foreign Ministry, University of Hong Kong
John Curtis @johncurtis.bsky.social Senior Researcher/Clerk at the House of Commons Library, researching Asia, Americas and the NI Protocol. War Studies alumnus. Follow for tepid takes on uncontroversial subjects.