Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
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.
Jerker Hellström @jerkerhellstrom.bsky.social China Fellow, I.D.E.A.
Malin Oud @malinoud.bsky.social Co-founder and Managing Director, The Decoding China Project
Affiliated scholar, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Vice chair, Expert Group for Aid Studies
Advisory board, MERICS
The Decoding China Project @decodingchina.bsky.social Decoding China Dictionary:
A guide to understanding the official Chinese meaning of key terms in international relations and development cooperation.
www.decodingchina.eu
ChinaObservers @chinaobservers.eu CHOICE is an independent platform for monitoring & evaluating the influence of China in the CEE region.
Designed and run by the Association for International Affairs (AMO).
#ChinaObservers
Alicja Bachulska @abachulska.bsky.social Policy Fellow European Council on Foreign Relations #ECFR #China #Europe
Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Co-founder and lead analyst, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air; senior fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute: tracking & accelerating progress from polluting energy to clean air, with research and evidence.
Pleco Software @pleco.com Makers of the world's best Chinese dictionary apps since 2001.
@stellahongzhang.bsky.social @stellahongzhang.bsky.social 
Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org We're a self-funded nonprofit publication with a mission to inform and inspire leaders of social change.
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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.
Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social Researcher @giga-hamburg.de
Editor @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
Alumni @syracuseu.bsky.social @maxwellsu.bsky.social
Bio: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/chu-sinan
China, intellectuals, ethnic politics, IR
Nicolas Zippelius @zippelius.bsky.social Direkt gewählter Bundestagsbgeordneter für Karlsruhe-Land ❤️ | #vonhierfüreuch | CDU | Auswärtiges, Digitales und Kommunales | Kreisrat
@lauramiti.bsky.social @lauramiti.bsky.social 
Trevor M Simumba @trevorsim.bsky.social Africa Ready for Economic and Social Transformation!
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Elizabeth Plantan @eplantan.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Stetson University, views own. Research interests: civil society and social movements, authoritarianism, environmental politics, China, Russia. elizabethplantan.com
Michael Meyer-Resende @meyer-resende.bsky.social Writer and Executive Director, Democracy Reporting International. Lisbon & Berlin.
Consensus is gemütlich. Debate is inspiring.
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Thomas Kampen @ziyoudaxue.bsky.social https://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/heibibprofil.cgi?gnd=1020891386&sprache=ENG&all=1
https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/ThomasKampen
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/suchergebnisse.html?cx=012470595696271899362%3Ayxzzifukyqq&c
Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social ‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com
MERICS @merics.bsky.social The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) is a European research and analysis institute established in 2013.
Belt and Road Podcast @beltandroadpod.bsky.social Covering the latest news, research and analysis of China's growing presence in the developing world. https://beltandroadpod.buzzsprout.com/
#beltandroad #China #OBOR
Ding Fei @feiding418.bsky.social development/economic geographer, China-Africa researcher, infrastructure, urban planning, migration, & labor
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova @unaaleksandra.bsky.social China scholar. Running RSU China Studies Centre and LIIA Asia programme, King’s College London and MERICS affiliate, plus all things FIMI @DE-CONSPIRATOR
Africa Confidential @africa-confidential.com In-depth analysis of political, economic and security developments across the African continent since 1960.
See more: http://africa-conf.com/m/Africa-Conf
Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social environmental historian of mining & oil (www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/) University of Groningen
Philea - Philanthropy Europe Associaton @philea.bsky.social We are the voice of European philanthropy. Our purpose is to harness its immense multidimensional potential.
philea.eu
Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social 1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social Fresh voices from today's China — news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube.
Website: www.sixthtone.com
Tom Wang @tomwxj.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director of Manila-based climate advocacy group People of Asia for Climate Solutions.
www.greenpacs.org.cn 
Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives.
Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
Professor Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social Lau Chair of Chinese international relations at King’s College London.
Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social Politikwissenschaftlerin usw
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de Focusing on current development and emerging topics in Greater China
Publisher: SAGE @sagepub.com
Editors-in-Chief:
Kerry Brown and Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CCA
Stiftung Mercator @stiftungmercator.bsky.social 🤝🏼#WirstärkenDemokratie
📌Digitalisierte Gesellschaft, Europa in der Welt, Klimaschutz, Teilhabe und Zusammenhalt
📍 Essen & Berlin
Bert Hofman @berthofmanecon.bsky.social Non-resident senior fellow at the East Asian Institute, senior fellow at MERICS and Asia Society Policy Institute. Focus on China, Indonesia, development finance. Life in the Big Durian.
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.
Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social UW-Madison | Chair, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Liverpool School of Law + Social Justice | Chair, Myriad/Give2Asia | China Medical Board | Latitude Global | https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/mark.sidel
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
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
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester. 
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
mayawang.bsky.social @mayawang.bsky.social Deputy Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email me: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.
Paul Kohlenberg @pkohlenberg.bsky.social All views here in personal capacity.
Now: Asia/China @Heinrich-Böll-Foundation 🇩🇪 Berlin.
Previously: Director @hbs/hbf China Office 🇨🇳; Researcher German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Alum: FU Berlin, Warwick, IUP/Berkeley, Oxford.
Arthur Tarnowski @arthurtar.bsky.social Chief Rep. Heinrich Boell Foundation, Beijing Representative Office
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/
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
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social China Anthropologist | @snsf.ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital, global
https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social Peasant Anthropologist @ LSE | China, Wa, Argentina | co-editor Social Analysis
Regional Group China(s) of the DGSKA/GASCA @rg-china.bsky.social Regional Group within the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA/GASCA)
webpage: https://ethnologiechinas.org/about-us/
China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Jannes Tessmann @jannes-t.bsky.social Head of Istanbul Office, Stiftung Mercator | Alumnus of Istanbul Policy Center, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, University of Cologne, Sabancı University
Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzegorzstec.bsky.social Head of Brussels Office at Mercator Institute for China Studies #MERICS #EU #China
Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social Historian, Teacher, and Traveler; Author of "World History and National Identity in China" (CambridgeUP, 2021) & "Global history in China" (Palgrave 2024).
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/
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
Charlotte Scott @charlottesc0tt.bsky.social Sustainable livelihoods for remote communities in marginal environments.
All things Zambia 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
ECFR Asia @ecfrasia.bsky.social ECFR ideas and analysis of #EU #foreignpolicy towards #Asia with a focus on #China #India #Japan and the #IndoPacific
https://ecfr.eu/privacy/#social-media-profiles
Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social Ian Johnson is a fellow at the @wiko-berlin.bsky.social He lived and worked in China for 20 years as a correspondent, teacher, and writer. He currently lives in Berlin. More at www.ian-johnson.com
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.
Christoph Rehage @christoph.bsky.social 👣 did a thing #TheLongestWay 🖥️ agonizing over a video I'm making 📘 books available 🀄️ 中文账号 老雷 ☕️ just ordered an expresso 👊🏼 #fuckputin
Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology. Researching social vaccines and cures for the colonial and ethno-national virus in the midst of the pandemic. Daily swimmer. Cook. Cabinetmaker. Grandfather.
Jakub Jakóbowski @jjakobowski.bsky.social Deputy Director, Head of China Dept. at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
China, Europe, the post-Soviet space. Eurasian connectivity.
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.
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
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.
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.
Byford Tsang @byfordt.bsky.social EU-China relations, China's climate and energy policies, climate diplomacy. Think tanker at @ecfr.bsky.social
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
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?
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
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
Nadège Rolland @rollandnadege.bsky.social Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research
| China’s grand strategy |
Current research project: https://strategicspace.nbr.org 
Manuel Liu 刘昌明 @liumanuel.bsky.social doing journalism 📝 for table.briefings about china 🇨🇳 interested in eu-china relations, mass communication, online trends, tv & film
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
Internationale Politik @internationalepolitik.de Deutschlands führende Zeitschrift für Außenpolitik, herausgegeben von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (@dgap.org) http://on.dgap.org/3enHJcQ
Podcast "Pod und die Welt" https://internationalepolitik.de/de/mediathek/pod-und-die-welt
Ivan Franceschini @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social Founder and chief editor of the Made in China Journal, The People's Map of Global China, and Global China Pulse. Researching ethnic Chinese transnational crime, especially in the online scam industry.
Gabriel Corsetti @gabrielcorsetti.bsky.social China, politics, climate change. Views my own. Reposts are indeed endorsements. Why would I repost if I disagree? https://gabriel965.substack.com/ 
The People's Map of Global China @globalchinamap.bsky.social The People's Map of Global China is an open platform for discussions about the social, environmental, and political implications of Global China from a grounded perspective. We also publish the Global China Pulse journal.
https://thepeoplesmap.net
Miriam Driessen @driessenmiriam.bsky.social Anthropologist and writer
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
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.
Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social Anthropology for Radical Optimism https://allegralaboratory.net/
Etienne Höra @etiennehoera.d-64.social EU trade and geoeconomics @ Bertelsmann Stiftung | Grassroots thinktanking and young perspectives on foreign policy @ Polis180 e. V.
Views are my own.
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, China, geo-politics, climate; Founder of ChinaDialogue; contributing editor Prospect Magazine. Chair of Centre for Investigative Journalism; NED E3G; visiting professor Lau Institute, KCL, co-chair Bureau of Investigative Journalism