Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca
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Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social The Japanese Journal of Political Science by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/jjps
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Stella Wong @stellastw.bsky.social workers' rights. human rights. environmental justice. mostly news sharing.
I write casual newsletters on workers x climate change (irregularly): https://labourclimatejustice.substack.com/
Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic.bsky.social Foreign Affairs (Asia Pacific) reporter, ABC. Canberra-based. Personal account. Pron: JED-jets
offside.hk - Football in Hong Kong @offside.hk offside.hk is Hong Kong’s prime English platform for local football; also bringing to you the occasional HK Football Podcast. #hkfootball, #HKPL
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
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.
ANU National Security College @nscanu.bsky.social A joint initiative of the Australian Government and ANU. Post-grad studies | Executive & professional development | Public policy. CRICOS provider 00120C.
Victor Ferguson @victoraferguson.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Hitotsubashi
https://www.victoraferguson.com
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social 
Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
julietlu.com
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
Annika Bolten @abolten.bsky.social 🇩🇪 diplomat, currently Berlin-based. Policy planner. Trained as political economist. Nordic by nature - but raised in Lombardy. Anglophile. Views are my own.
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
Become a member: kyivindependent.com/membership
Brian Spivey @bspivey.bsky.social Historian of modern China, postdoc at CIW @ Australian National University. Writing a book about Maoist environmentalism during the Cultural Revolution. Also ئۇيغۇر and Xinjiang.
UC Irvine History PhD, editor at large at LAReviewofBooks.
ZLarchives.com
The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social Bringing you China from beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Louisa Lim and Graeme Smith with support from the Australian Centre on China in the World at the ANU.
Alex @alexmoodie.bsky.social Co-founder
@PVamplify
Researching Myanmar 
Maximillian Morch @maxmorch.bsky.social Humanitarian aid along the Thai/Myanmar border.
Author of "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal's Tarai".
Joel Chan @kjoules.org 👨🏻💻 Data, charts & graphs, news
📍香港 Hong Kong, also 🇹🇼🇨🇦
☢️ @hksushireport.bsky.social
🖊️ The Numberwang: www.kjoules.org
I have Hong Kong-related Starter Packs, Feeds, and Lists for those getting started
New Bloom @newbloommag.net New Bloom is an online magazine covering youth culture and politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.
https://newbloommag.net
https://linktr.ee/admin/links
Kris Cheng @krislc.bsky.social Hong Kong journalist covering politics and diplomacy from London
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent. 
@armyofshadows.bsky.social @armyofshadows.bsky.social BKK🇹🇭 HK🇭🇰 LDN🇬🇧
Aaron Connelly @connellyal.bsky.social Asia diplomatic editor and Singapore Bureau chief at The Economist. Former think tanker. Native of St. Petersburg, Fla. and sometime resident of Washington, DC, Sydney, Australia and Singapore.
Iris @stolaine.bsky.social Based in Hong Kong🇭🇰. I lurk, mostly. Interested in disability advocacy, animals, history, technology, puns and American and Chinese politics. Reading on Bluesky is my way of understanding human foibles. I don’t bite. 
Siu Heng @siuheng.bsky.social 
John Liu @johnliunn.bsky.social CNN business reporter covering China & beyond
DM for signal
HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social 🔉Amplifying workers' voices from #HK to the world 🌎
📩 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/3BYsP7Y
#HKLabourRights #StandWithHK
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization hklabourrights.org
http://hklabourrights.org
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.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
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/
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Venturing Koko @venturingkoko.bsky.social Let's protect Taiwan together! 大家一齊保護台灣！
草棉谷RONG @rong-art.bsky.social ✿ 我是RONG，畫插畫的人
✿ #Taiwan || #Art || #Illustration
✿ 在地小本經營佛系插畫家，感謝地方支持，沒PO文時都在其他地方安穩耕耘😌
✿ 插畫合作歡迎來信👉 rongart85@gmail.com
Jorrit Gosens @jorritgosens.bsky.social Fellow on Energy Transitions at the Crawford School, Australian National University
Athena Tong @athenaktong.bsky.social Hongkonger in Tokyo with cats 🗼🇯🇵🐱🐱
UTokyo | CSRI | Researcher
Fighting for freedoms 🌏
Researching info ops, geopolitics & economic security
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Jonathan Head @pakhead.bsky.social BBC South East Asia Correspondent in Bangkok
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
Victor Cha @victordcha.bsky.social Georgetown Professor, author, former USG, CSIS Geopolitics President, long-suffering Giants and hopeful Knicks aficionado.
Galileo Cheng @galileocheng.bsky.social Axed Award-winning photojournalist, UBC Journalism but focus on Hong Kong Studies. Works here and there
Ford Prefect @bartyslaartfarst.bsky.social Tech dude, Irish, foodie, father, petrolhead and former motorsports photographer, soon to be a retired gentleman B&W film photographer. Living in Penang, #HongKong #SlavaUkraini #FreePalestine
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
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
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
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
mayawang.bsky.social @mayawang.bsky.social Deputy Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email me: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
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.
Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy
Natalie Lau @natalielau.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Politics @ The University of Edinburgh | Political Communication, Authoritarianism, Nationalism, Territorial Politics, Public Opinion, East Asian Politics | She/ They🏳️🌈
Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social PhD @york.ac.uk on the influence of Hong Kong people upon the handover • Studentship from WRoCAH • Alumnus of @ox.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk
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
Jean Hong 洪知延 홍지연 @jeanhong.bsky.social keep calm and post academic stuff. working @umich. formerly @HKUST. study authoritarian politics and legacy. East Asia. https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/jeanhong
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.
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
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
bb @taiwanbb.bsky.social 台派寶寶
Renaud @rhaccart.bsky.social 12 years in Hong Kong, relocated two years ago in Geneva. Father, occasional runner, aging metal head and all around curious person.
Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social Mixed diaspora lad, officially living wherever a fast VPN is.
Partly forged by the #MilkTeaAlliance, still believes in building solidarity between people, movements & struggles.
Creates some feeds... Red Pandas, Protests & more.
My feeds >> Me
William Nee @williamnee.bsky.social Senior Program Manager at the National Endowment for Democracy. Interests: IR, foreign policy, human rights, Catholicism, religious dialogue, business and human rights, trail running. Former Amnesty, CHRD, CLB; HKU & CU Buffs
The Diplomat @thediplomat.com The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social China in the World Director @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social | External Relations Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @fairbankcenter.bsky.social A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator Research Scholar | ISOC Trustee | ICTTM Board | Tech for Good Asia | DSET Taiwan consultant | Ex Hong Kong IT Legislator, HKNet | Purdue ECE Grad & Advisory Board | https://charlesmok.substack.com/
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 
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
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
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.
Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project.
Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo
More at https://andreaghiselli.com/
无巧不成书
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.
Andreas Fulda @amfchina.bsky.social Associate Professor | Author of the Spiegel bestseller "Wenn China angreift" (C.H.Beck, 2026) and "Germany and China" (2024) | Views my own | RTs ≠ endorsements
RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social Photographer, Fixer, Translator & Independent Journalist.
Donation link in pinned post.
Samuel Bickett @samuelbickett.bsky.social Lawyer & Hong Kong human rights advocate | Hong Kong Law & Policy Substack | Former Hong Kong political prisoner, now continuing the fight in Washington, DC | https://linktr.ee/samuelbickett
Mary Hui @maryhui.bsky.social Weather reporter, Bloomberg News. Formerly, Quartz. Wrote http://theasymmetric.substack.com (now on hiatus). ✉️ mhui52@bloomberg.net
📍Hong Kong
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
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
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
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.
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
CW怪叔叔 @cw-f-ccp.bsky.social 🇭🇰香港人💪🏻手足同路人互科🙋🏻♂️粗口爛舌CLS怪叔叔一名🦹🏽♂️擁護中國共產黨人士勿近🙅🏻♂️
Dave Coulson @cheesindave.bsky.social Internationally published photographer and Hong Konger who now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland
www.davecoulson.co.uk
Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン pp@hrmi.ngo ppoon@asianlawyers.net @ppoon.bsky.social @tsukikagecoffee.bsky.social｜ex- @amnesty.org researcher｜may continue my PhD at @univrennes2.bsky.social｜Board @asianlawyersn.bsky.social｜East Asia Lead @rightstracker.bsky.social｜ sometimes write @fleursbleues.bsky.social｜
📍Tokyo
Matthew Brooker @mbrooker.bsky.social Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion in London. CFA holder, from Slough, 25 years in Hong Kong, 5 in Shanghai. Opinions are my own.
Befria Hongkong @liberatehk.se We advocate for #democracy and #humanrights, primarily focusing on #HongKong, but also on #Tibet, #Taiwan, #EastTurkestan, #China, #EastAsia and globally when appropriate.
Website: www.befriahongkong.se
IG: @befriahk
FB: @LiberateBefriaHK
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.
Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine @lithuaniamfa.bsky.social Official account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
Desmond Sham @desmondsham.bsky.social ✤Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
Greg Raymond @gregoryvraymond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. Mainly SE Asia, mostly Mekong, a lot on Thailand. AMSEAS President. IR editor Asian Studies Review.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/greg-raymo
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
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Tom Kellogg @tom-kellogg.bsky.social Executive Director, @GeorgetownCAL. China hand, Hong Kong law expert, and Taiwan aficinado. Amateur Dylanologist, cinephile, and biblilophile.
Eric Lai 黎恩灝 @ericyhlai.bsky.social Senior Fellow @GeorgetownCAL | PhD (@SOAS) | Law, Politics, Human Rights & Non-profit | HK&PRC| RTs=/endorsem’t
William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social Senior North East Asia Analyst at @crisisgroup.org
Foreign correspondent covering East Asia in my previous life.
Email: wyang@crisisgroup.org
Sanho Chung 鍾燊豪 @sanhochung.bsky.social Asst Prof of Polisci at NCKU (TW) | Polisci PhD. at UArizona | clientelism, local govt, E Asia (TW, HK) | Hongkonger
More about me: sanhochung.me
Selina Cheng @selinacheng.bsky.social Hong Kong Journalists Association chair.
Tom Grundy @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com Director, Founder, Firefighter at @hongkongfp.com - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial #HongKong news since 2015. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn https://tomgrundy.org/
Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social 🇭🇰 I climb rocks, my favorite game is abt a bird who went for a hike, and I make meetings fun.
#HumanRights, #LabourMovement, #MilkTeaAlliance. International Urgent Appeal Coordinator@Clean Clothes Campaign
Ian Holliday @ianholliday.bsky.social