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Bad Baltic @badbaltictakes.bsky.social “Bad Baltic skewers the lazy prejudices of the foreign commentariat and serves them up sizzling.” - Edward Lucas
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
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lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social 👨🏻 (he/him)
keeping the mots bon and the scallions rapt
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
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Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
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The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010. Claiming this handle as an inalienable part of China.
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁 @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social 🍁 Woke writer, editor, reviewer, consultant, municipal politician.
☑️ Shakespeare, Horace, Machiavelli, Chaucer, Cicero, Homer, Godzilla, ERB, ukuleles, democratic socialism, atheism, pets, science, bread, tequila.🚫crypto!🚫 MAGA!
www.ianchadwick.com/blog
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.
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social 🔉Amplifying workers' voices from #HK to the world 🌎
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#HKLabourRights #StandWithHK
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization hklabourrights.org
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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
Bob’s Your Uncle @bobsyouruncle.bsky.social HK/NYC/Vancouver He/Him
Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!
As of May 31, 2023 there 1,498 political prisoners in HK.
我真係好撚鍾意香港!
Never forgive, never forget.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
John dEFR0G has never had 1 million likes @defrog.bsky.social I have nothing to skeet, and I am skeeting it.
Sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, satire, rubber ducks, sensible shoes, chocopies -- if we don't got it, you don't want it.
Hong Kong Watch @hongkongwatch.bsky.social Hong Kong Watch defends human rights, freedoms and the rule of law in Hong Kong.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/hongkongwatch
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Phillip Forsyth @pforsyth.bsky.social Born in (Arbroath) Scotland, and have called Hong Kong, home, since 1987. Main business is logistics and love tramping around the hills here.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Li Yuan袁莉 @liyuan6.bsky.social NYT columnist, Bumingbai Podcast host. Views here my own. 纽时专栏作者，不明白播客主持人 li.yuan @ nytimes.com bumingbaipod @ gmail.com
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Ian Harnett @ianrharnett.bsky.social Veteran macro-strategist. Co-founder Absolute Strategy Research - all views are my own - not those of ASR. Any likes/reposts do not mean endorsement. 
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Alice Su @aliceysu.bsky.social Covering China and Taiwan & co-hosting Drum Tower pod @TheEconomist. Former Beijing bureau chief @latimes, previously in the Middle East. alicesu@economist.com
Hong Kong Accountability Archive @hkaccountability.bsky.social The Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable and secure database of videos that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. https://hkaccountability.org/
Kevin Yam 任建峰 @kevinkfyam.bsky.social @kevinkfyam on Twitter.
PhD candidate, Melbourne Law School. Senior Fellow @georgetowncal.bsky.social. Activist/ex-lawyer, #HongKong. Cricket tragic. AFL Hawks fan. Foodie. Views my own.
Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Political philosopher and inequality economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, democracy, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
BernUnitHK @bernunithk.bsky.social Freelance journalist now based in Vancouver, ex-South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and ex-CBC Vancouver
Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social Screw it, let's do it.
Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14
Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social Professor of European Studies, twice named Jean Monnet Chair (La Trobe & HKU), occasional bylines in FT, Politico, unherd. Proud father of 4
Kitsch Liao @kitschquixote.bsky.social Associate Director @ACGlobalChina | Military and Cyber Consultant @doublethinklab | Taiwan Defense & Security, PLA, Chinese Influence Operation. Views my own.
Webb-site @webb-site.com This account tracks Webb-site.com updates
Vicky Wong 黃瑋殷 @vickywong710.bsky.social Digital journalist with BBC News, previously with Reuters Fact Check and RTHK English; Views my own, reposts and likes are things that made me go hmm or bookmarked for later; obsessed with yarn when not on duty.
📍London
Shibani Mahtani @shibanim.bsky.social Washington Post international investigative correspondent, co-author of Among the Braves https://amongthebraves.com/
Jessica Leung @jessicaksleung.bsky.social Solicitor (Eng & Wales) | Columnist | 🇬🇧🇭🇰| Former Secretary General at Civic Party | Non-practising Hong Kong barrister | LSE Human Rights and Politics | Talks about #criminaljustice #civilliberties #humanrights #hongkong #china
Han Yang 杨涵 @hanyangsydney.bsky.social Tsinghua/UNSW alumni. Formerly in MFA China/architecture. “Chinese speaking bad-faith actor” according to Global Times. Calling Down Under home.
https://www.youtube.com/@DevilsAdvocate-Aus
https://hanyangsydney.substack.com/
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
慕容雪村Murong Xuecun @murongxuecun.bsky.social A Chinese independent writer living in Australia. Author of 8 books. Latest Deadly Quiet City: Stories from Wuhan was published in the US, the UK, Australia, and other countries.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social Political scientist. Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. My new book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is available here: https://shorturl.at/BlEJE
https://www.lnachman.com
Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social Reporter on the investigations team at the NYT. I always have a China-focused story in the works. Co-author of bestselling “When McKinsey Comes to Town”. Navy veteran. Send tips to Michael.forsythe@nytimes.com. DM for Signal. 
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore
Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Jessica Chen Weiss @jessicacweiss.bsky.social David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies SAIS Johns Hopkins, senior fellow Asia Society Center for China Analysis, previously Cornell, State Dept, Yale
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social Taipei-based journalist. Author of Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025).
Tao Jiang @taojiangscholar.bsky.social Prof of Classical Chinese Phil & Mahāyāna Buddhist Phil at Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, US; Books: "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China" & "Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on Subliminal Mind" amzn.to/3bzJ2qU
taojiangscholar.com
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
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
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social Senior correspondent for WSJ covering collisions of geopolitics, tech, and power. 15+ yrs in Asia, mostly China. Co-author of SURVEILLANCE STATE: https://www.josh-chin.com/books
Signal: joshchin.86. Also: josh.l.chin@protonmail.com
Frances Hui 許穎婷 @franceshui.bsky.social 📣 Policy & Advocacy Coordinator @thecfhk.bsky.social
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Founder @WeTheHongkonger
✍🏼Author "Hostile Takeover: CCP & HK's Religious Communities"
📰 Emerson College Journalism & Poli Sci '20
Tom Kellogg @tom-kellogg.bsky.social Executive Director, @GeorgetownCAL. China hand, Hong Kong law expert, and Taiwan aficinado. Amateur Dylanologist, cinephile, and biblilophile.
Julie Millsap @juliemillsap.bsky.social Activist at Heart.
"Annoying" (persistent).
Currently: No Business With Genocide. Wild Pigeon Collective.
Formerly: Uyghur Human Rights Project
CFHK Foundation @thecfhk.bsky.social The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation supports democracy & the rule of law for Hong Kong, campaigns on behalf of political prisoners and fights China/CCP interference #FreeJimmyLai #HongKong47
Media inquiries: media@thecfhk.org.
Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.
David Bandurski @dbandurski.bsky.social Executive Director of the China Media Project, a think tank promoting freedom of expression through research and journalism capacity building.
chinamediaproject.org
https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/
https://linguasinica.substack.com/
David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP.
Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
Clarissa Wei @dearclarissa.bsky.social Freelance writer. Author of MADE IN TAIWAN. www.clarissawei.com
Helen Davidson @heldavidson.bsky.social Foreign corro previously for the Guardian in Taiwan. Via Guardian Australia covering immigration and the Pacific and three wild years as the Northern Territory corro.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/helen-davidson
helendavidsonreports@gmail.com
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com 🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net.
Antony Dapiran @antd.bsky.social Writer/Lawyer/Photographer, author of “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong”. www.antonydapiran.com
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
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. "Softhanded scribe". Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
Website: http://donaldclarke.net
Twitter: @donaldcclarke
@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.
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
Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social China Digital Times | Berkeley
Alvin Y.H. Cheung is unhappily vindicated (again) @handle.invalid Dyspeptic academic. I have a long memory.
Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong.
Fuck GovHK!
Fuck the CCP!
Fuck billionaires!
Fuck MAGAs!
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质