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Rory Medcalf @rorymedcalf.bsky.social Professor Rory Medcalf AM | Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, Canberra | Indo-Pacific strategy | An independent Australian worldview 
Nicholas Fenton @nicholasfenton.bsky.social Associate Director and Associate Fellow at the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Views my own. Follows and reposts do not equal endorsements.
Gregory Poling @gregpoling.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Opinion my own, etc etc
Scott Kennedy @kennedychina.bsky.social Senior Adviser & Trustee Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies | CSIS
Patrick Cronin @patrickmcronin.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute &
Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department @geopolitics.csis.org The Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department brings together CSIS’s leading regional experts and research programs to offer cross-cutting analysis of the most challenging issues ahead. https://www.csis.org/geopolitics-foreign-policy
Kate Logan @katelogan.bsky.social Climate, energy & environment @ Asia Society Policy Institute @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org + ASPI’s China Climate Hub. Usual caveats.
@carlminzner.bsky.social @carlminzner.bsky.social 
Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
evanlaksmana.com
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap
Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s 
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters
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The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
@msnegovaya.bsky.social @msnegovaya.bsky.social 
The Wilson Center @wilsoncenter.org Foreign policy think tank providing counsel and insights on global affairs.
Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.
🌐 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/
Doreen Horschig @doreenhorschig.bsky.social Nukes, norms, and (counter-) proliferation ☢︎ | Fellow at Project on Nuclear Issues & @csis.org | Affiliate & PhD @ucf.bsky.social | formerly MIT, NYU, DAAD | 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
Emma Dodd @emmadodd.bsky.social Food, water, and ag policy researcher at CSIS. MS GEOINT student at UMD.
Views are my own.
Gracelin Baskaran @gracebaskaran.bsky.social Mining economist. Director of the Critical Minerals Security Program @csis. PhD from Cambridge.
Whipling @seanhaines.bsky.social Ex China state media commentary writer. Interests: disinfo, comms, and cronuts.
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
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/
James Gethyn Evans @jagevans.bsky.social China's foreign policy, Global Maoism, radicalism, (Post-)Cold War history, PhDing @ Harvard, visiting instructor @ GWU 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 jagevans.com
Paul Heer @pauljcheer.bsky.social Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia. Diplomatic historian.
T. Greer @scholarsstage.bsky.social • Director https://www.strategictranslation.org/
• Essayist http://scholars-stage.org
• Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, ancient history
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)
South China Morning Post @scmpnews.bsky.social 
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Michael Cerny @cerny.bsky.social PhD Student, Department of Government, Harvard
michaelbcerny.net- 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
New China Books 📚 @newchinabooks.bsky.social All the books you could ever read about China.
Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social Independent, non-partisan coverage of China in Africa & the Global South: www.chinaglobalsouth.com
FR: https://projetafriquechine.com/
ES: https://chinalasamericas.com/
Marcin Jerzewski 葉皓勤 @yehaoqin.bsky.social #taiwan | #foreignpolicy | #hybridthreats | #democracy | #humanrights
Head of Taiwan Office, @europeanvalues.bsky.social
Marcin Król Fellow, @visegradinsight.bsky.social
Young Leader, Pacific Forum
Views my own
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Simon Lester @simonlester.com Founded WorldTradeLaw.net & ChinaTradeMonitor.com Non-Resident Fellow @bakerinstitute.bsky.social
Trade Policy feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqzu2eazvxb5fohoc4nap33y/feed/aaab5ctu4u4fc
Jeremy Page 裴杰 @jnbpage.bsky.social The Economist’s Chief China Correspondent & Drum Tower podcast co-host. Previously, the Wall Street Journal’s chief political & diplomatic reporter in Beijing 2010-21. Also posted in Moscow & Delhi. 12 int'l journalism awards. www.linkedin.com/in/jnbpage
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent. 
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Andrew MacDonald @profandrewm.bsky.social Asst Prof at @DukeKunshan
Previously a PhD student @UniofOxford
Completely amateur runner and Trader Joe's aficionado
Jason Jianzhi Zhao @jasonjianzhizhao.bsky.social China, Global Policy, and International Political Economy. University of Exeter. www.jianzhizhao.org. All views are my own.
Sabine Mokry @drmokry.bsky.social IR & China | Researcher at IFSH, previously Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program | PhD from Leiden University | passionate about teaching IR and foreign policy | academic mom of 2
Ilaria Carrozza 李文雅 @ilariacarrozza.bsky.social Senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). SOAS and LSE alumna. Working on China, digi tech & AI, democracy-autocracy, security, international order, geopolitics, China-Africa & more.
Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy
at the U.S. Army War College. Indo-Pacific & Eurasian Security, Strategy, and Development Politics.
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.
Benjamin Herscovitch 郝杰明 @bherscovitch.bsky.social 🇦🇺-🇨🇳 ties & 🇨🇳 FP. Ex 🇦🇺 gov.
Returning in 2027:
http://beijing2canberra.substack.com/
Writing now: https://benjaminherscovitch.substack.com/
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
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
Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
izading.substack.com
Andrew Small @ajwsmall.bsky.social Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱
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.
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. 
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @historianzhang.bsky.social Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
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
Moritz Rudolf @moritzrudolf.bsky.social China Fellow - European Commission - DG IDEA
Research Scholar & Fellow @YaleLawSch - Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)
China Analyst, Lawyer, Dr. iur.
(Private account)
Peter Dombrowski @peterdombrowski.bsky.social Strategy, grand and otherwise, cyber and military innovation. Snark, but less than on Twitter. Cranky. And, yes, angry. Retweets ≠ endorsements. Personal views only. He/him/his.
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social #China #Asia #International Relations, Political Science, (Geo)Politics of Technology, Infrastructure, CASSIS, University of Bonn
#CovidIsNotOver #wehrhafteDemokratie
Hier privat
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
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.
Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social I teach & research public policy, health, environment, and crisis management in China. http://annemiekevandendool.com. 
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social Professor of International and Development Politics, Editor of RIO. #china, #aid, www.axel-dreher.de. 
Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social 金玉米, 君子不器, like nothing else in Tennessee.
rhymingchaos.com
thechinaweek.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
CSIS Critical Minerals Security Program @minerals.csis.org Developing policy solutions to build resilient critical minerals supply chains needed for national and energy security and economic competitiveness.
ChinaPower @chinapower.csis.org Unpacking the complexity of China’s rise through objective analysis and data visualization. Follows and reposts ≠ endorsements. https://chinapower.csis.org/
Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com Journalist-engineer at Polygraph/The Pudding. Formerly Axios and CSIS. Builder of websites, data visualizations, and pixel cats. She/her.
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics @chinaecon.csis.org 
Greg Sanders @gregorysanders.bsky.social International relations Fellow CSIS ISP and DIIG Deputy Director. Separately Vice President of PurpleLineNow. Opinions are strictly my own.
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Tanner Brown @tannerb.bsky.social Writing about China's society and economy and damn do my fingers hurt. Probably scaling a ripe wet mountain road somewhere in Taiwan. Recent writings: https://muckrack.com/tanner-brown/articles Twitter archives: https://x.com/luoshanj
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 @npcobserver.com Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee | “[I]nvaluable,” per 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵: http://bit.ly/4csmiTK | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/npcobserver
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, co-author of Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Website: https://fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project/
Sam Bresnick @sambresnick.bsky.social Research Fellow @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social
China + Emerging Tech