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Arthur Kaufman @arthurkaufman.bsky.social Currently: @madeinchinajournal.com @globalchinamap.bsky.social @chinagsproject.bsky.social || Previously: @chinadigitaltimes.net || Global China, human rights, media
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social 
Lea Frühwirth @leafruehwirth.bsky.social All things digital discourse and its impact on society and politics | Disinformation & Propaganda | Senior Researcher @ CeMAS
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
Phillip Forsyth @pforsyth.bsky.social Born in Scotland, and have called Hong Kong, home, since 1987. Main business is logistics and love tramping around the hills here.
@intdev1.bsky.social @intdev1.bsky.social 
YOUR PROSTATE IS HUGE THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO HAVE IT EXAMINED @terminal7.bsky.social Doom guy tells you to seek medical consultation.
Bananas.
@Cross_theIine @cross-theline.bsky.social The Human race has a serious Control Freak problem
@Cross_theline and YOU are going to resolve that
I support the Iranian people 🇮🇷
#EndWar #EndTyranny #Cross_theline
@alpineforests.bsky.social @alpineforests.bsky.social 
@matthewpjacobson.bsky.social @matthewpjacobson.bsky.social 
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
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
Alex Nguyen @alexnguyenus80.bsky.social Traveling 🧳
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
European Values Center for Security Policy @europeanvalues.bsky.social The European Values Center for Security Policy is a non-governmental, non-partisan institute defending freedom and sovereignty.
Anika Patel @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org China Section Editor at Carbon Brief
michael caster @mcaster.bsky.social Head of Global China Programme @article19.bsky.social. Cofounder/advisor @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social. Other stuff. He/him.
Alexa Olesen @ouleishan.bsky.social China-focused researcher & consultant. China Leaks & Panama Papers for ICIJ. Ex-AP China.
@chadpowers.bsky.social @chadpowers.bsky.social 
Emma Martin @emmamartin89.bsky.social Research Associate @ Cardiff University working on foreign disinformation.
American based in UK
Let’s talk OSINT,Chinese food and true crime!
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/
Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social https://www.taweichi.com/post/mexico-trip-2026
Phyo Susan @psusan.bsky.social Researcher & Reporter on Political Ecology, Multispecies Resilience & Sustainability, Indigenous Ecosystem Communities, and Social Equality
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/
Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social I teach & research public policy, health, environment, and crisis management in China. http://annemiekevandendool.com. 
DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social HKer, Bostonian, Kansan, always a critic of shoddy governance. A reminder of how quickly a police state can be created. Pronouns: meow, miao, 猫
San 方珊琳 @elgdbocks.bsky.social 
luzcannon @luzcannon.bsky.social Creative. Practical. Queer. Just.
Trying not to give myself hate stroke from how enraged I am with the KKKnockkkoff Nazis in the US and around the world. 
Even @evenpay.bsky.social Director at Trivium China. Covering agtech, biotech, food security, resources, and trade. South Dakotan. 20 years in Beijing, but not so much anymore.
📍 Bangkok
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
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. 
Vicky Xu @vickyxu2024.bsky.social Writer, investigative researcher. Geopolitical risk by trade, MMA on weekends. Ex @nytimes, @ASPI_org
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
Eva Liu @evaliumedia.bsky.social 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇺🇸 ABD in Mass Communication @OhioU
CUHK Gender Studies alumna
Researching Chinese feminisms, popular cultures and fandoms.
Cybintelligence @cybintelligence.bsky.social OSINT, cybercrime, darknet and a lot of other things not cyberz related
@matthewdm.bsky.social @matthewdm.bsky.social 
Dr Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
Eva Gorobets @evagorobets.bsky.social Photographer in Melbourne, Australia
Visual Culture Researcher (post-soviet Central Asia),
Art Flaneur Global co-founder,
Limited edition prints collector, PhD candidate in Fine and Applied Arts
Mayakóvskaya 迈涯 แมว माया Маяковская @mayakovskaya.bsky.social Amor Mundi Institute & Amor Mundi Lab Director, academic/scholar, eco-political theorist, speculative storyteller, eco-ethnographer, curator,
Resist the Anthroposupremocene, nurture symbiopoiesis, & re-imagine human praxis in a more-than-human world
Andy Lim @andysaulim.com Deputy Director & Fellow @korea.csis.org
- China's Weaponization of Trade: https://shorturl.at/X3yPG
- Koreanists starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/U3Nm5FX
- Personal website: andysaulim.com
- Moonlighting at @citylightsofchina.bsky.social
Tiago Nabais @tiagonabais.bsky.social Chinese contemporary literature researcher at Coimbra University and translator (Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, Can Xue 等) . Back in Lisbon after ten years in China / Beijing - Xi'an - Shijiazhuang - Shaoxing / Flamenco aficionado
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).
Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social Chinese AI researcher @ChinaMediaProject. Some words ft. @Economist, @FT, @thewirechina, @thechinaproject(RIP). Still recovering from zero-Covid.
Aurelio Insisa @insisa.bsky.social Senior Analyst, Foreign Relations @merics.bsky.social
Phelim Kine @phelimkine.bsky.social D.C.-based China correspondent @politico ; Past @hrw.org ; Dow Jones Newswires, Phnom Penh Post; China News (Taiwan).
New/old administration peeps: DMs open! Tips to pkine AT politico.com SIGNAL +1 212 810 0469
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Aleksandra Bielakowska 白奧蘭 @ketalaolan.bsky.social Advocacy Manager at Reporters Without Borders & President of RSF Taiwan Chapter / Human Rights, Press Freedom, Taiwan, China & Hong Kong / Formerly Correspondent for PAP / views expressed are my own @rsf.org & @rsf-chinese.bsky.social
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
Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault