Emile Dirks @emiledirks.bsky.social Senior research associate @citizenlab.ca, board member @pencanada.bsky.social. Researching biometric surveillance, authoritarianism, and Chinese politics.
Patrick Carver Fox @pcfox.bsky.social Realism and Restraint - formerly JQAS & Security Dilemma
@martinwwitte.bsky.social @martinwwitte.bsky.social Formerly did China human rights work, local journalism, and language teaching, now at UC Berkeley
Jana Václavíková @janavacl.bsky.social Journo. Taiwan, China, climate, etc.
Professor Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social Lau Chair of Chinese international relations at King’s College London.
Jon Hillman @hillmanje.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Former advisor to Secretaries of Commerce, State, and USTR. Author, THE DIGITAL SILK ROAD: http://bit.ly/ChinaDSR
Jim Murphy @jimmurphy.bsky.social Deputy Director, digital team at Human Rights Watch. 
Giorgi Gogia @ggogia.bsky.social Associate Europe and Central Asia Director at Human Rights Watch
César Muñoz @cesarmunoz.bsky.social Diretor da Human Rights Watch no Brasil
Brazil director at Human Rights Watch
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social We fight for human rights in the digital age.
www.digitalrightswatch.org.au 
Eva Cossé @evacosse.bsky.social Europe senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. Focusing on #Greece and #France.
Nadia Hardman @nadiahardman.bsky.social Refugee and Migrant Rights Senior Advisor at Human Rights Watch. Here for the calm.
Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social Director, Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, Human Rights Watch- S Stephen Northfield @snorthfield.bsky.social Deputy Chief Communications Officer at Human Rights Watch, recovering journalist
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Mary Wareham @marywareham.bsky.social Arms Director, Human Rights Watch @hrw.org
Kevin Klyman @klyman.bsky.social AI Policy @ Stanford + Harvard
Former - Digital Forensic Research Lab, Digital Impact Alliance, UN Global Pulse, Human Rights Watch
Researching - acceptable use of digital tech, evaluations of dual-use capabilities, transparency of LLMs (or lack thereof)
Ben Ward @bpward.bsky.social I work on Europe for Human Rights Watch (he/him)
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/benjamin-ward
Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Alaskan in Cape Town. Queen of typos.
Human Rights Watch auf Deutsch @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social Wir informieren hier aus dem Berliner Büro von Human Rights Watch über Menschenrechte weltweit.
https://www.hrw.org/de
Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social Associate Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Director at Human Rights Watch
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
Etienne Soula @etiennesoula.bsky.social China-focused researcher at GMF, foreign authoritarian interference, information manipulation, economic coercion, and more. It’s a brave new world out there.
Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social Deputy digital editor, ABC Melbourne. PhD from Melbourne Law School. Bad opinions are my own
Andréa Worden @andreaworden.bsky.social Human rights activist/lawyer, #joyfulwarrior focused on China /Asia. Former CECC general counsel, Intl Campaign for Tibet, Asia Catalyst; ex-adjunct at AU WCL and JHU Krieger School. Writer. Translator. Still asking: #WhereIsPengShuai
Mara Hvistendahl @hvistendahl.bsky.social Investigative reporter with The New York Times. I do books too (UNNATURAL SELECTION, THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY). Send tips to mara.hvistendahl@nytimes.com or DM for Signal.
The Asia Cable @theasiacable.bsky.social Your source for Asian Politics, Economics and Security
Connect with us at: linktr.ee/theasiacable
Nippo-sino关系 @nipp2sinoguanxi.bsky.social I’m utterly boring.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
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.
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.
IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) – a renowned research institute and influential think tank for global sustainable development.
| Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
Emma Rafaelof 江小莲 @erafaelof.bsky.social China and East Asia specialist with focus on tech and trade policy. Former USCC and DHS. 🕎 🍉 🌈
Bartapest @bartapest.bsky.social Asia's rise, int'l development, sustainability, US-Canada relations, trade & trends/futures. @mcgillu @AsiaPacificFdn. Fútbol.
Tim Niven @timniven.bsky.social Research Lead at @doublethinklab.bsky.social.
Tainan, Taiwan.
Phyo Susan @psusan.bsky.social Researcher & Reporter on Political Ecology, Multispecies Resilience & Sustainability, Indigenous Ecosystem Communities, and Social Equality
Kai von Carnap @kavocabo.bsky.social Politics | Sinology | Internet Governance
Thinking about "China + Cybersovereignty" atm; PhD Candidate @University of Trier, Associate Fellow @DGAP; BLOCS Fellow @ Aletheia Research Institution
#EU-China #DSA #GeoEconomics #DigitalSilkRoad #GlobalOrder
Yukun Zeng @humayun.bsky.social Postdoc, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Anthropologist Studying China
Education, Religion, Gender, Language
Knowledge Production and Grassroots Movement
Tying Knots
Urgent Ethnography
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
Sage @sagepub.com Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
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
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de Area studies and comparative area studies on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Global Affairs from Hamburg, Germany.
Website: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en
Technisette @technisette.bsky.social OSINT maniac * technisette.com * Trainer @ MyOsintTraining * The OSINTcurious Project
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
RNS @rns.org Covering the world of religion. https://rns.org
@theresaafallon.bsky.social @theresaafallon.bsky.social 
Karl Hui 許家耀 @karlvh.bsky.social #StandwithHongKong 's democrats, Uyghurs, Tibetans, victims of #709Crackdown & Taiwan.
Fight the #CCP, Putin & Trump.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦
Jessica Sier @jessicasier.bsky.social North Asia Correspondent - The Australian Financial Review
Based in Tokyo.
Thomas Hollow @tommyhollow.bsky.social Aspiring political violence researcher. Sociology, critical theory, foreign fighters. 
Léo Ruesche Neggia ⏚ @lruescheneggia.bsky.social Researcher & Policy Analyst • Human Rights & Climate Justice Activist • Dual Master candidate @ ScPo x PKU • 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🌱🌳
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
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
Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
@keirinjoyce.bsky.social @keirinjoyce.bsky.social 
Afeeya Akhand আফিয়া আখন্দ @afeeyaakhand.bsky.social @nscanu.bsky.social Emerging Associate | 🇦🇺🇧🇩🇰🇷, Indo-Pacific security, climate, intersectionality | 🇵🇸 will be free 🍉🤲🏽
Check out my website: https://www.afeeyaakhand.com.au/
Melissa Conley Tyler @mconleytyler.bsky.social Executive Director, Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue (AP4D) at ACFID | Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne | AIIA Fellow | mconleytyler@asiapacific4D.com | She | 孔美莉
Linjie Dai @linjiedai.bsky.social PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social Co-ED, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) @chrdnet.bsky.social. Visiting Scholar at Stanford CDDRL 2024, HRW China director 2006-2023. Still think music makes everything better (see https://youtu.be/k9avKq94DGY?si=I7xvXwRcgovRnF1v).
Patrick McLaren @patrickmclaren.bsky.social International Relations and Security studies @HarvardExt.
Previously in management and tech @Privy, acquired '21 by @attentivemobile.
https://patrickmclaren.com
Adrian Zenz @adrianzenz.bsky.social Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Member, European Commission Expert Group on Forced Labor. Research: Xinjiang, Tibet, ILO, state-imposed forced labor, OSINT. https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-zenz-phd
Ming Xia 夏明 @mingxiany.bsky.social Prof. of PoliSci (International Political Economy, Monsoon Asia @CUNY/GC), Bibliophile, Amateur Photographer, Global Traveller, Friend of LGBTQIA+, homepage: https://www.dr-ming-xia.org/
Sinologo Incazzato @sinologo.bsky.social Sono 太 TMD incazzatissimo!
Vicky Xu @vickyxu2024.bsky.social Writer, investigative researcher. Geopolitical risk by trade, MMA on weekends. Ex @nytimes, @ASPI_org
Tying Knots结绳志 @tyingknots.bsky.social an independent group committed to introducing anthropological perspectives, studies, and engagements to the Chinese-speaking public
https://tyingknots.net/
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
Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
http://vaspanagiotopoulos.com
Cora Jungbluth @corajungbluth.bsky.social China, Indo-Pacific & Europe | Hybrid: Sinologist&Economist | Feminist | Karate Black Belt | Personal Views
Sam Baron @samuelgbaron.bsky.social Asia policy wonk and wearer of many 🎩. past: 🇺🇳 @BizHRAsia_UNDP & @TheAsiaGroup. Personal account. RT ≠ Endorsement. (www.samuelgbaron.com)
Julien Nocetti @jnocetti.bsky.social Associate Fellow IFRI & GEODE
PSIA Sciences Po
Global cyber, Internet, AI politics + Russia
@johnfitz888.bsky.social @johnfitz888.bsky.social 
邓自闲 @dengzixian.bsky.social Data scientist, media analyst
Jason Li @jasonjli.bsky.social Data scientist, AI researcher, musician, member of ABC Advisory Council 2019-2022. All tweets are my own views, retweet do not equal endorsement.
Sebestyén Hompot @hompotchinastudies.bsky.social PhD | Strategic Risk Analyst | China-CEE Supply Chain Specialist |
Own views/RT≠endorsement
Yufei Zhou @yufeizhou.bsky.social 周雨霏 Faye བདེ་སྐྱིད་འཚོ། Anthropology, animals, environment, ethics, ethnicity, consumption, pastoralism, affect, gender, cognition, Tibet, China. PhD student @ LSE.
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Tom Wells @tomwells.bsky.social Work for UK govt chief science adviser on tech and foresight. Former green chemist, science & media advisor, and science diplomat. All views personal.
Nick Ayrton @nickayrton.bsky.social Co-Founder - The Asia Cable
https://www.theasiacable.com/
Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
Tobiáš Lipold @tobylle.bsky.social Researcher at Sinopsis, currently based in Taipei.
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
Chu Yang @chuy.bsky.social China Analyst @ AMO | Contributor @ China Media Project | former Futures Fellow, MERICS & financial reporter, Caixin
Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social Dad, lecturer, cyclist, karateka - sometimes simultaneously. I work on EU/rope-US-China relations. IR + FPA. Usual disclaimers.
PhD - Glasgow
Postdoc - Nunn School @ GA Tech
Now - Dundee
Joshua Rosenzweig @siweiluozi.xyz Researcher, analyst, and advocate focused on Chinese human rights, supply chains, criminal justice, and foreign policy. Still dreaming about HK.
Ministry of State Insecurity @statesecurity.bsky.social Chinese Intelligence Analyst, DC-based
Graduate of both countries
能拼善赢吗？
deep state spook 🇺🇸
Stephan @stephan6174.bsky.social Professional Wes Anderson fan | Backyard data scientist @ASPI-org | Aspiring loiterer
The China Week @thechinaweek.com The China Week is the essential weekly summary of China news you need to know.
TheChinaWeek.com
Sam Bresnick @sambresnick.bsky.social Research Fellow @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social
China + Emerging Tech
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
不能忘记张展 @lefteardiamond.bsky.social 爱是救赎
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
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
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social Geopolitical and security analyst, Views are my own.
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.