Katrin Bennhold @kbennhold.bsky.social Host of The World, the global newsletter of The New York Times. Former Berlin bureau chief, London and Paris correspondent. Nieman Fellow '13. Podcasts: Day X and The Battle for Europe
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Gregory Poling @gregpoling.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Opinion my own, etc etc
Carlos Conde @carlosconde.bsky.social Independent journalist/researcher in the Philippines focusing mainly on human rights. 🇵🇭. Ex-HRW, ex-NYT. | carlosconde.substack.com
Terence Lee, Ph.D. @terenceleepols.bsky.social SEAsian politics, civ-mil relations, int'l security. Moving away from @terenceleepols
Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social Historian of Modern China at Trinity University. Author of Dialect and Nationalism in China; Current 📕 project: Grassroots Feminism: Women Activists and the Fight for Hong Kong's Future, 1967-1997. Former NCUSCR PIPVII, Wilson China Fellow. 4th-gen 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social Leading the way in Myanmar news. Sign up for our membership programme at https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/membership/
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
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
Mark S. Cogan @markscogan.bsky.social - Associate Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
- Senior Associated Research Fellow at @isdp-sweden.bsky.social
- Former #UN in SE Asia, Africa, Middle East
- #Lakers 🏀, #Yankees ⚾️, #ManchesterCity ⚽️
www.markscogan.com
Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social Prof Int Law & AssocDean (Research) UWA. Visiting Scholar @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Aust Red Cross volunteer. Int crim law; genocide studies; IHL; human rights. All posts my opinion.
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3571
Zoya Phan @zoyaphan.bsky.social A Karen activist. Programme Director at Burma Campaign UK. Author of Little Daughter and Undaunted. Director at Phan Foundation. TED Fellow 2009/ YGL 2010
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
Dr Emiline Smith @dremilinesmith.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at SCCJR @ Uni of Glasgow. https://tinyurl.com/EmilineSmith
Research: cultural & natural resources • crime & harms • justice • oceans.
♡ Vegan ♡ tea ♡ scuba diving.
www.stolenstatues.com
www.oceanculturelife.com
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
Alexa Olesen @ouleishan.bsky.social China-focused researcher & consultant. China Leaks & Panama Papers for ICIJ. Ex-AP China.
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
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Stanford APARC @aparc.stanford.edu The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is @stanford.edu's hub for research and education on contemporary Asia. We're part of @fsi.stanford.edu. Reposts ≠ endorsements. Visit us at aparc.stanford.edu
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
Noan Sereiboth 🦋 @noansereiboth.bsky.social Freelance Researcher | Specializing in desk-based research | Email me for work: noan.sereiboth@gmail.com | Signal: +855 89 867 556
Buy me a coffee ☕: https://tinyurl.com/2ywmp682
📍Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Jorge Guajardo @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social Interests: Mexico, China, trade, tech, cyber, books. Co-chair of Aspen Digital’s Global Cybersecurity Group.
Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social 中文名：姜大翼｜AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者｜你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social 
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
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
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
Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social Author, Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, journalism, religious freedom and belief, freedom of expression, West Papua https://www.andreasharsono.net/
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
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Kelly Macnamara @kellymacnamara.bsky.social Climate and environment correspondent @AFP
Previously ➡️ Hong Kong ➡️ Yangon ➡️ Bangkok
Co-founder @kitetalesMM non-profit Myanmar storytelling project
Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social 🇦🇺 🇮🇩 Flat White, Kopi Susu https://flatkopi.substack.com/
Southeast Asia newsletter 🤓 https://darimulut.substack.com
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
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
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.
Panarat A @panarat.bsky.social Lecturer at Thammasat University, Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Economic history, gender equality, dogs (she/her)
Ken Lohatepanont @kenlmathis.bsky.social Political Science Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan. Thailand/Southeast Asia analyst. Studying parties in emerging democracies and the politics of development. kenlmathis.com
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Rohingya Refugee News (RRN) @rohingyarefugee.news Independent reporting on Rohingya displacement, camps, and power structures. Published by Shafiur Rahman. Newsletter: https://www.rohingyarefugee.news
Susannah Patton @susannahpatton.bsky.social Director of the Southeast Asia Program and Project Lead, Asia Power Index at the Lowy Institute
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
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.
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
John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com Explainers editor at the Financial Times. Usual caveats apply.
Bio: https://www.ft.com/john-reed
My videos: https://www.ft.com/ft-explains
Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu.bsky.social https://www.thantmyintu.com/peacemaker
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe
inbox: oliver@status.news
James Crabtree @jamescrabtree.bsky.social Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. ecfr fellow. foreign policy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard. 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Rishi Iyengar @iyengarish.bsky.social Staff Writer at Foreign Policy magazine covering (mostly) technology, via CNN, TIME, SFO-DEL-HKG-NYC-PNQ. Alliteration aficionado. Em dash enthusiast. New(ish) here.
Damien Cave @damiencave.bsky.social NY Times reporter based Vietnam. Dad. Philosophy: “We must cultivate our garden.”
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
Trey Menefee (🇭🇰 🇹🇭 🇺🇸) @comparativist.bsky.social Founder of Synthetic Intelligence Group
🏝️ Escaped Florida Man | South China (20 yrs)
🇭🇰 Hong Konger | 🇹🇭 In Thailand |
riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་ @riwoche.bsky.social all things Tibetan, OSINT, disinformation, human rights, media + technology
རྐང་འཁྱར་ཏེ་བོད་ཡུལ་དུ་ཕེབ་👣
mastodon.green/@riwoche
Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail enthusiast. Creator of the Saltzsteini. Ruthless cosmopolitan.
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Matthew Bell @matthewjbell.bsky.social International desk editor, Christian Science Monitor (CSMonitor.com).
Irrational Boston Celtics fan. And yes to funk, soul, R&B, jazz and other American roots music, esp rhythm guitar.
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.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
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
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
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
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
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
Professor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ @anne-mariebrady.bsky.social Watching and researching the politics of China, NZ domestic and foreign policy, Arctic, Antarctic, and Pacific politics
Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
evanlaksmana.com
michael caster @mcaster.bsky.social Head of Global China Programme @article19.bsky.social. Cofounder/advisor @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social. Other stuff. He/him.
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
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!
John Delury @johndelury.bsky.social Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Jeremiah Jenne @jeremiahjenne.com China-based PhD historian and global storyteller. 20+ years making history come alive through teaching, tours, & writing. Co-host: Barbarians at the Gate & By Their Own Compass.
Short Bio: Birth. School. Work. More School. China.
Jon Fasman @jonfasman.bsky.social Senior culture correspondent, The Economist. Podcaster: "The Intelligence", "Checks and Balance". Ex-DC, Singapore, Atlanta, London, Moscow, Providence. Author: "The Geographer's Library," "The Unpossessed City," "We See It All".
Omar Waraich @omarwaraich.bsky.social Director, Open Society Foundations. Previously, Amnesty International and TIME. Views, entirely mine.
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/
Peter S. Goodman @petersgoodman.bsky.social Global Economic Correspondent, NY Times. Former Shanghai buro chief, WashPost. Author of HOW THE WORLD RAN OUT OF EVERYTHING: Inside the Global Supply Chain and DAVOS MAN: How the Billionaires Devoured the World- T Tania Branigan @taniabranigan.bsky.social Foreign editorials writer at the Guardian. Author: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, winner of the Cundill History Prize. UK paperback: 1 February https://linktr.ee/redmemory and US: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324051961
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).
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social Independent journalist focusing on Myanmar. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow 2025
@markfarmaner.bsky.social @markfarmaner.bsky.social Director, Burma Campaign UK. Working for human rights and democracy in Burma/Myanmar. 
Renaud Egreteau @regreteau.bsky.social Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at City University of Hong Kong. Exploring all things political in Burma, or #Myanmar. 
Aung Naing Soe @aungnaingsoeans.bsky.social A journalist from Myanmar