John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social Founder of Sifted, the FT-backed startup covering European tech. Tech columnist Financial Times and host of Tech Tonic podcast
https://www.ft.com/john-thornhill
Xiaoxue Martin @xiaoxuemartin.bsky.social China Research Fellow at Clingendael Institute, think tank in the Netherlands. @clingendael.bsky.social
Find my work here: https://www.clingendael.org/person/xiaoxue-martin
Posts are personal.
Frans-Paul van der Putten @franspaulvdputten.bsky.social China as a great power - international order - economic security - business and geopolitics
Clingendael Institute @clingendael.bsky.social Independent think tank and academy on international affairs to contribute to a secure, sustainable and just world. 40+ years of top knowledge & training.
Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social Eye on Digital China 🇨🇳💬📱 Chinese social trends, online media & digital culture. See @manyapan on X for my most recent updates 🙏
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social
@florisharm.bsky.social @florisharm.bsky.social
Scott Kennedy @kennedychina.bsky.social Senior Adviser & Trustee Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies | CSIS
Marc Julienne @marcjulienne.bsky.social Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
Associate Lecturer at Inalco
Ph.D. from Inalco
@ifri-asie.bsky.social
@ifri.bsky.social
Views are my own
Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social Welcome to the madness. Be prepared for politics, dad jokes, puns, and analytical shenanigans. You’ve been warned.
Buckle up.
Neil Thomas 牛犇 @neilthomas123.bsky.social Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Australian in DC. Views are my own.
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
China Trade Monitor @chinatrademonitor.bsky.social News and analysis of China's economic relations with the world. https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social Professor & Pictet Chair @GVAGrad, VP @cepr_org & Director ICMB. Before @UNCTAD @the_IDB @AUB_Lebanon @unito 2 daughters. FVCG ⛷🏍 Twitter handle @upanizza
www.upanizza.com
Ling Chen @lingchenscholar.bsky.social William Clayton Chair and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Political economy; state-business relations; economic, industrial and tax policies; authoritarian capitalism. https://www.lingchen-scholar.com/
@carlminzner.bsky.social @carlminzner.bsky.social
Lauren Johnston @drlaj.bsky.social #Econ #Development, #Demography & #Donkeys; 北大博士; ODI in Sierra Leone & Guyana; 8yrs 在Beijing; @USydney, lauren.johnston@sydney.edu.au (usual disclaimers).
Elizabeth Pisani @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org Public health, Indonesia, things of beauty.
Sara Van Hoeymissen @sara-van-hoey.bsky.social Lecturer in World Politics, Royal Military Academy (🇧🇪)
PhD in Chinese Studies
Guest Lecturer, KULeuven
Curious by nature and by profession
🇪🇺 🌏 🌍
Amai maTwins
Caixin Global @caixinglobal.bsky.social Award-winning journalism from China's most respected newsroom. App: http://caixinglobal.com/app/
Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social Global Editor, Reuters Breakingviews. Usual disclaimers apply. My free weekly newsletter: https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/the-week-in-breakingviews/
Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com Geoeconomics & tech @ecfr.eu • Prof. @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft, geopolitics of AI
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Drew Thompson 唐安竹 @tanganzhu.bsky.social Former DoD official responsible for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. Currently based in Singapore. Senior Fellow at RSIS.
@HopkinsNanjing alum.
Harry Anthony Patrinos @hpatrinos.bsky.social Head of Department of Education Reform | Chair in Education Policy | University of Arkansas | IZA | GLO | Former World Bank
https://harryapatrinos.substack.com/
Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs.bsky.social Southeast Asia bureau chief at The Washington Post
Snaps from bikes and boats instagram.com/rebtanwp
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
@davidbulman.bsky.social @davidbulman.bsky.social
Neysun Mahboubi @neysunm.bsky.social Administrative law/Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host, China Studies podcast.
https://global.upenn.edu/global-initiatives/person/neysun-mahboubi
Duncan Clark @duncanljclark.bsky.social Investor and advisor in tech, Asia and beyond. www.duncanclark.com
Fred Gao @fredgao.bsky.social CGTN reporter based in Beijing, my view doesn't represent CGTN's standpoint
Substack channel Inside China: www.Fredgao.com
2020 graduate of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
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Bob Davis @bobdavis187.bsky.social Author of "Broken Engagement," interviews with top officials on U.S. China policy, and "Superpower Showdown" with
@Lingling_Wei, the definitive account of
Trump's trade war. http://bobdavisreports.com
Lili Pike @lilipike.bsky.social China & climate reporter @bloomberg.com
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Herald van der Linde @heraldlinde.bsky.social Indonesiaphile. Majapahit. Jakarta. Bad cook. Asian equities.
Charlie Vest @cvest.bsky.social Rhodium Group | UCSD | brooklyn curler | #LFGSD💛🤎
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Wendy Zhou @wwwendyz502.bsky.social East Asia Postdoc@U of Virginia. China, Global Comm, Diaspora Media, and Political discourse. Open to jobs. https://eastasiacenter.as.virginia.edu/wendy-weile-zhou
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures.
https://www.markhertling.com
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Glenn Luk @gluk.bsky.social Co-founder/BoD Healthcare.com | Previously Catalyte | VC/PE Investcorp Technology Partners
Tech | Econ Dev | Investing | China/APAC
https://www.readwriteinvest.com/
Ludovica Meacci @ludovicameacci.bsky.social US-EU-China and technology | PhDing at @csds.bsky.social | Associate Fellow at @rusi.bsky.social | usual caveats apply
Amni Rusli @amnirusli.bsky.social Quant, Economist. I write about the US monetary policy at eightateeight.substack.com and about trade at https://eighttradeeight.substack.com/
Leiden Asia Centre @leidenasiacentre.nl The Netherlands’ expertise centre for socially relevant and applicable knowledge on modern Asia
Marina Zucker Marques @marinazucker.bsky.social Economist • Sr. Researcher at @GDP_Center • Former @UNCTAD, @SOAS • PhD @FU_Berlin • sovereign debt, China, international monetary system. Views are my own.
https://www.marinazuckermarques.com
Friso Dubbelboer @frisodubbelboer.bsky.social Political science | freelance | #Aegean Sea | #EastMed | #ASEAN | #IndoPacific | #SouthChinaSea | #Taiwan Strait | #UNCLOS | research fellow LeidenAsiaCentre | NL & ENG
Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com 🎙️ Producing/founded, Ghost Island Media podcast network based in Taiwan. 16 shows in English, Mandarin, French: https://ghostisland.media
📺 Producer/host of "Cover to Cover" and "Game Changers" on TaiwanPlus.
Twitter @ emilyywu
Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 @joshuaeisenman.bsky.social Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @cup.columbia.edu; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
Views my own
Jane Duckett @j-duckett.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Chinese politics, local government, social and health policy.
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
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.
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social Senior North East Asia Analyst at @crisisgroup.org
Foreign correspondent covering East Asia in my previous life.
Email: wyang@crisisgroup.org
Happy Being 🌿 @happybeing.bsky.social Your daily dose of mental peace ✨ | Tips, affirmations & tools for anxiety, stress & self-care 🧠💛 | 10K+ minds healing together | all you need is below 👇
https://whop.com/happybeing
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
📨 Tips & anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/fergus-ryan
🧧 Read my newsletter: http://redpacket.substack.com
📱 Signal: fergus.99
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social President, PIIE. Globalist. Former central banker. Political economy with a policy purpose. Writes on macroeconomic policy, G7/China relations, globalization, and economies of US, UK, Germany, Japan, and PRC.
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通(非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home.
James M Zimmerman @jmzbeijing.bsky.social Beijing-based author, lawyer, and political commentator; and former four term chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
http://ThePekingExpress.com- M Michael Szonyi @michaelszonyi.bsky.social 宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown (lizhiliu.com); Political Economy, Tech & China; Author of From Click to Boom (https://t.co/UL6RIfmdTm)
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Dandan Chen陈丹丹 @dandanchen.bsky.social SUNY Prof; Founder, Global Studies Forum; Founder, Intl Association for Law & Interdisciplinary Studies; Editor, Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in Global Historical Perspective; Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard; global/Asian/Chinese history/culture
Haidi Lun Stroud-Watts @haidilun.bsky.social Anchor @BloombergTV The Asia Trade. China, markets, geopol, pandas. Usual caveats.
Chun Han Wong @chunhanwong.bsky.social China-focused reporter for The Wall Street Journal. 《華爾街日報》記者。我東寫西讀。 Author of "Party of One," an account of Xi Jinping's rise to power and how he changed China: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Party-of-One/Chun-Han-Wong/9781982185749
John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @fairbankcenter.bsky.social A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Laura Luehrmann @lauraluehrmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Chair, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University (Dayton, OH). Modern Chinese politics and foreign policy, social movements, political ideologies.
Ph.D., Ohio State University
#FirstGen
Roger Pielke Jr. @thehonestbroker.bsky.social undisciplined scholar and recovering academic @AEI @DNVA1 @CUBoulder @UCL | Subscribe to The Honest Broker ➡️ http://rogerpielkejr.substack.com
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent.
Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics at University of Glasgow focusing on China; Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Law and Government; sleep deprived mum
Anika Patel @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org China Section Editor at Carbon Brief
@zarguato80.bsky.social @zarguato80.bsky.social