José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies @ceias-eu.bsky.social #CEIAS is an #IR and #AsianStudies #ThinkTank dedicated to spreading knowledge about #Asia. Branches in Bratislava, Prague, and Vienna.
Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
Kristie Lu Stout ✌🏽 @klustout.bsky.social Anchor/correspondent CNN CNNi covering Hong Kong, China & Asia 🎥📝🌏| AAJA | Stanford | Name my momma gave me: 魯可蒂 (and I’m a momma to Ara & Bobo)
Ian Wilson @iwilson69.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies, Principal Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch Uni. ISEAS Fellow. Research urban social movements in SEA, Indonesian democracy/authoritarianism, intersections of crime, violence & politics
Jacqui Baker @indobaker.bsky.social Political Economy 🌹 I Indonesian politics 🇮🇩 I SEA development I democracy I policing I climate I IPRC principal fellow @ MurdochUni🇦🇺
Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com Geoeconomics & tech @ecfr.eu • Prof. @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft, geopolitics of AI
💌 agathe.demarais@ecfr.eu | 🖥️ agathedemarais.com
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
James Crabtree @jamescrabtree.bsky.social Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. ecfr fellow. foreign policy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard.
Bartapest @bartapest.bsky.social Asia's rise, int'l development, sustainability, US-Canada relations, trade & trends/futures. @mcgillu @AsiaPacificFdn. Fútbol.
Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Eugenio Benincasa @euben.bsky.social Cyber Defense Researcher @ethz.ch. Former Italian govt, Pacific Forum and NYPD. LUISS & Columbia University Alum.
Shahriman Lockman @slockman.bsky.social Director (Special Projects), Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia • Malaysian foreign relations, Asian security, South China Sea • Views expressed are my own.
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.
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs.bsky.social Southeast Asia bureau chief at The Washington Post
Snaps from bikes and boats instagram.com/rebtanwp
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
Wen-Ti Sung @wentisung.bsky.social Politics of the China, Taiwan, and US triangle. Tea leaf reader and bubble tea drinker. @AtlanticCouncil, @ANU, @TaiwanPlus
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/people/wen-ti-sung
Andrew Small @ajwsmall.bsky.social Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Ted Plafker @tpbeijing.bsky.social Correspondent in the Beijing Bureau of The Economist. Living in Beijing and covering China since 1989.
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
@mikechinoy.bsky.social @mikechinoy.bsky.social
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/
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.
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
Dan Knorr @dknorr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
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.
Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social Writing and speaking on China
Former China Bureau Chief at Bloomberg Businessweek
Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Check out my newsletter Trade War: https://dexter.substack.com/
Marti Mätas 🇪🇪 @martimatas.bsky.social Estonian diplomat, Deputy Head of Mission @ Estonian Embassy Beijing 🇨🇳, accredited to 🇲🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳; formerly 🇰🇷🇪🇺.
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
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).
Darius Longarino 龙大瑞 @dariuslongarino.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School / Chinese law and civil society. he/him
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).
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
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
Rhodium Group @rhg.com Rhodium Group is an independent research provider, combining policy expertise and data-driven analysis to help decision-makers navigate global challenges.
Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 @joshuaeisenman.bsky.social Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @cup.columbia.edu; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
Views my own
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/
Pallabi Munsi @pallabimunsi.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, CNN. Previously: Asia Reporter, CNN As Equals. DEL-CCU girl at heart; in London.
Email: pallabi.munsi@cnn.com
DM for Signal.
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
Beijing Boyce ~ Jim Boyce in China @beijingboyce.bsky.social Beijing-based alcohol industry observer. Founder of World Baijiu Day and wine site Grape Wall of China.
Fan of Chinese wine, street food, happy hour and gin cocktails. Butter tart aficionado.
Bhavan Jaipragas @jbhavan.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, The Straits Times. Previously Asia Editor of South China Morning Post in HK. Only sleuthing, no posts here. https://hk.linkedin.com/in/jbhavan
Yaling Jiang @yaling.bsky.social Covering Chinese consumers on Following the Yuan & research-focused consultancy ApertureChina; ex-journalist & translator, Cantonese learner
📍London/Shanghai
https://www.chineseconsumers.news
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
Christian Petersen-Clausen @memostothefuture.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker, based in China.
25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch.
坚持就是胜利。
Mike Gow 高英智 @mikeygow.bsky.social #Everton STH Upper South Block 212
Recovering China Studies Academic. Assoc Prof.
Likes: football, politics, conversation.
Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
My Triptych newsletter:
https://triptych.oxus.net/
Tuvia Gering 陶文亚 @geringtuvia.bsky.social Planet Nine Digital Intelligence Team | Discourse Power on Substack | Non-resident Fellow at the INSS and the Atlantic Council Global China Hub | China-Israel; China-Middle East/West Asia | Tikvah's Krauthammer Alum
Kristoffer Rønneberg @ronneberg.bsky.social Journalist at Aftenposten, author, podcaster, procrastinator. Just published a book about Taiwan.
Antony Dapiran @antd.bsky.social Writer/Lawyer/Photographer, author of “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong”. www.antonydapiran.com
Joyu Wang @joyuwang.bsky.social Reporter @wsj.com, covering Taiwan and beyond
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/joyu-wang
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
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Rebecca Bailey @beijia-b.bsky.social Shanghai Bureau Chief for AFP. Asia Matters Podcast founding producer. Reposts are not endorsements.
Zoe Low @zoelow.bsky.social Social media editor at CNN. Hong Kong. Penang native and food lover at heart. she/her. views my own.
Eliot Chen @eliotchen.bsky.social covering Chinese business and politics @thewirechina.bsky.social
| 🇭🇰 | say hi: eliot@thewire.media
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue Executive Editor, Hong Kong Free Press | Former Managing Editor of the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, TIME, dpa
📍 Hong Kong
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com
Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social White House correspondent, @reuters.com. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Signal: jacobbogage.87. The newsletter: jacobbogage.com.
Clement Tan 陳永強 @clemtan.bsky.social Assistant Foreign Editor, The Straits Times
All things political economy. Now in Singapore, via Beijing, Hong Kong, DC and NYC. Former Reuters, Bloomberg reporter. Always trying to write a book.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemtan
Alexa Olesen @ouleishan.bsky.social China-focused researcher & consultant. China Leaks & Panama Papers for ICIJ. Ex-AP China.
Kevin Schoenmakers @kevinschoenmakers.bsky.social Reporter at ANP in the Netherlands // via Shanghai and New York // kevin.schoenmakers@anp.nl // 宋楷文
Nick Ayrton @nickayrton.bsky.social Co-Founder - The Asia Cable
https://www.theasiacable.com/
Scott Edwards @scottedwards.bsky.social Maritime Security and ASEAN scholar. Lecturer, University of Reading and free and open Indo-Pacific Research Fellow, YCAPS
Bridget Welsh @dririshsea.bsky.social Independent Scholar & Political Analyst focused on Southeast Asia / Consultant Geopolitics/Governance / Podcaster - Straight Talk Southeast Asia / Columnist Malaysiakini/Benar News/ Love Food, Nature and Animals / w/beloved dog Surya / Global Citizen 🇮🇪🇲🇾🇺🇲🍉
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.
Jacob Stokes @jacobstokes.bsky.social Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Previously White House & U.S. Congress. China, East Asian security, US foreign policy. Views mine.
Ambassador Kirk Wagar (ret.) @ambwagar.bsky.social Former US Ambassador to Singapore, proud immigrant, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative. Massive Canes and Lions fan!
Eli Meixler @elimeixler.ft.com Hoping this place is better than the last one. @financialtimes.com Asia world news editor in 🇭🇰, bagel dogmatist. Usual business, DM’s open
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
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
Yong Xiong @yong.bsky.social Journalist, covering China and more.
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
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.
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
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social Hong Kong. Camping in the hills because the Murray Barracks were full
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.
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
www.williamdjames.com
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
Adam Wu @adamwt.bsky.social PhDing in Political Science at UCSD. Once journalist. Authoritarianism | China | bureaucracy | diplomacy | text analysis | mixed methods
A feed for Chinese politics & policy: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:doce3n3wwji3qtenc7ktcu5r/feed/aaacdrgczzosm
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
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Sarah Godek @sarahgodek.bsky.social Research Associate for the Stimson Center’s China program
Chinese foreign policy and trade
China-Afghanistan relations
Patiently waiting for this app to be the destination
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
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Laura Luehrmann @lauraluehrmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Chair, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University (Dayton, OH). Modern Chinese politics and foreign policy, social movements, political ideologies.
Ph.D., Ohio State University
#FirstGen
Joel Atkinson @joelatkinson.bsky.social Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.- D Dali L. Yang @daliyang.bsky.social Univ of Chicago Professor and the author of Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control (Oxford Univ Press, 2024).