John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Gene Tracy @genetracy.bsky.social Physicist, sci-fi fan, news junkie. Scribblings have appeared at Aeon, Lapham’s Q, and American Scientist. he/him. Author of The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World. https://gene-tracy.com/
Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social The Centre for European Reform (CER) is an award winning think-tank, devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the EU.
London, Brussels, Berlin
Website: www.cer.eu
Podcast: soundcloud.com/cer_london/ Spotify: https://buff.ly/7aKvyUs
Angie Clemmons-Roberts @angie-clemroberts1.bsky.social Billings > Raleigh > New York > Denver > Chapel Hill. But really just a wandering Montanan.
Missing newsrooms at a cellular level.
“Somehow I Manage” a team of copy editors.
Love quirky radio; print magazines; garden coveralls.
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies @melbournechinacntr.bsky.social 
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social Historian and postdoc at UCD. I have worked on (sub)urban history, violence and spaces of belonging. Currently contributing to an environmental history of the Russian empire.
https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta/about
Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
Eric Fish @ericfish85.bsky.social 
Isaac Scher @isaacscher.bsky.social reporting in The Guardian, The Intercept, Jewish Currents, etc. // master's student in history, CUNY // researcher at NYT Opinion
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Eric @erictmiller.bsky.social ED @ https://dreamwrights.org/ China. Anthropology. Aging. Hospice. Anabaptism/Pietism. Cats.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Smart Cookies podcast @smartcookies.bsky.social Deep-dive conversations with the world's leading minds. European host Zaza looks beyond the mainstream to explore history, technology, philosophy, psychology, and science.👇🏻
https://linktr.ee/euro_trash
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Robert Rust @rrucs.bsky.social China Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program.
US-China relations, especially on nukes, arms control and the like. Views my own, likes/RTs ≠ endorsements. I'm not here representing Hardbodies.
Rick Green @bcbrews.bsky.social Writer with an interest in 🍺☕🍴🧳🤘🏻📰 culture, history, politics • #WW2TV SLK • #NAFO 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 
Nectar Gan @nectargan.bsky.social Senior China reporter, CNN
@karpuzbaby.bsky.social @karpuzbaby.bsky.social 
Mike Shaw @zax2000.bsky.social A yokel Bostonian bumbling around Seattle. Stints in 北京 and Bali along the way. I used to edit journalists' spam. Geopolitics is my jam. My wife says that I make a mean tofu scramble.
Gregory Kulacki @gkucs.bsky.social Director, East Asia, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Non-Resident Fellow, Research Center for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at Nagasaki University. Cross-cultural sojourner.
Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social Relentless (fast) charging addict on a quest to find #MOREPLUGS
⚡️
(At better prices)
🌞💨
My newsletter is on the verge of coming back to life at electricfelix.com/linkinbio
Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social Independent Senator for British Columbia, Parliament of Canada
Sénateur indépendant de la Colombie-Britannique, Parlement du Canada
Marianne von Blomberg @mariannevblomberg.bsky.social Researcher. Heart in Hangzhou and mind with Chinese law, regulatory evolution, social credit, assessment-driven regulation.
Based at HongKongU.
https://linktr.ee/mariannevonblomberg
Stephen Gow @steviegow.bsky.social Leverhulme Research Fellow - Student use of AI at Edinburgh Napier University. Academic Integrity, Assessment, AI. Music loving, nature loving mountain biker.
Tencent Global @tencent.bsky.social 
James Park @jyjamespark.bsky.social Research Associate for East Asia Program @quincyinst.bsky.social.
Follows, Reposts, Likes ≠ Endorsement. All views are mine.
Andrew Stokols @astoks.bsky.social Digital urban futures, politics of infrastructure China/SE Asia. Phd, postdoc at @MITDusp fmr @FulbrightPrgrm @cal+ @HarvardGSD lived in PEK, ICN, XIY, SIN, BOS, BKK. 实事求是
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
Michael Cherney 秋麦 @michaelcherney.bsky.social Either at home with Dong and Autumn in Beijing or off on some mountaintop. Info on art and exhibitions can be found at qiumai.net.
Paul Delahunty @pauldel.bsky.social It ain’t the meat, it’s the motivation
furcafe @furcafe.bsky.social Photographing people and stuff using available light since 2000. Dispensing legal advice since 1991. https://www.instagram.com/furcafe
Kent Fung @wkfung108.bsky.social 
Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social Historian of Modern China, Italian, food obsessed.
Tom Kellogg @tom-kellogg.bsky.social Executive Director, @GeorgetownCAL. China hand, Hong Kong law expert, and Taiwan aficinado. Amateur Dylanologist, cinephile, and biblilophile.
Jonna Nyman @jknyman.bsky.social Teach and research international relations at the University of Sheffield. Working on security politics, China, & energy/climate issues. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
https://jknyman.com/
David Moser @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social aka 莫大伟 Sinologist, linguist, jazz pianist. Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language," Penguin Books. https://amzn.to/38rGZ2q
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Deb Seligsohn @debseligsohn.bsky.social Focus on China - especially the environment and public health, but care about the US too. Opinions are my own.
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
@bjunitedfamily.bsky.social @bjunitedfamily.bsky.social 
Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social Associate Prof of English, UC Irvine. Director @uciglobalasias.bsky.social. ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 (Columbia UP, 2024), TECHNO-ORIENTALISM 2.0 (Rutgers UP, 2025). Hyphen magazine co-founder. 🇹🇼 American. https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/chrisfan
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.
Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social China’s story in pictures (1850–2010).
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
@lucasniew.bsky.social @lucasniew.bsky.social 
Kevin Bell @penda-91.bsky.social 
Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social Systems dynamics, military strategy, measuring conflict prevention, human security.
Leave the world a fairer place.
- Fellow @RSA
- Assoc Snr Researcher @CCIP
Alumni: @NATO @RMI @DCAF @RCDS
Reservist.
Jeremy Garlick @jeremy-garlick.bsky.social Director, Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University of Economics and Business. China's international relations, Belt & Road Initiative, IR theory. Participant in EuroHub4Sino - Horizon Europe project researching China.
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
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。
Joseph W. Ho @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social Historian of East Asia, visual culture | Associate Professor, Albion College | Photographer | Author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell, 2022) bit.ly/DevelopingMission
josephweiho.com
Emmanuel RIBOULET-DEYRIS - 何雷 @eribouletdeyris.bsky.social Twitter Survivor. Plan to survive the next 4 years. Senior Professor of Mathematics. Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
APACE Asia-Pacific Editorial @alexapace.bsky.social Follow to stay apace of news from the Asia-Pacific region, covering AI, Business, Tech, Entrepreneurship, EVs, Clean Energy, Gaming, Culture & Travel
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Panthea Lee 李佩珊 @panthealee.bsky.social writer, cultural worker, trandisciplinary facilitator in service of life and liberation 🤲🏽🌿🌒💗 weaving from 台北 / Taipei
struggling with this era of social media. currently more at: panthealee.substack.com and instagram.com/panthealee_.
Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University School of International Service. Senior Fellow @cfr.org. Studies Chinese and Russian politics and foreign policy. 唐志学
Arvin Chen 陳駿霖 @arvinchen78.bsky.social Sometimes I make movies lately I make TV
rmangi @rmangi.bsky.social Brooklyn/Catskills
Staff Engineer @Datadog
Homesteading, cooking, reading, playing guitar, D&D and saving the world from nationalist dictators.
@DrJenHo @drjenho.bsky.social Director, Center for Humanities & the Arts
Professor, Ethnic Studies
Faculty at CU Boulder
Scholar of Asian American Studies & Critical Race Theory
Corgi Mom & Anti-Racism Educator
Love: Stevie Wonder, YoYoMa, Irises, Soft Serve Ice Cream
Hate: Haters
Tao Wang @taomanchester.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University
Arun Sudhaman @arunsudhaman.bsky.social Journalist & PR industry analyst
LWSTD.FM founding DJ & Underbelly MC
underbellymusic.bandcamp.com
https://www.mixcloud.com/waxxmatic/
South 🇮🇳 , born 🇳🇬, raised 🇭🇰
Ex PRovoke Media, Haymarket, Guardian, SCMP
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Bill Adams @billadamsecon.bsky.social Plano, TX
Tao Jiang @taojiangscholar.bsky.social Prof of Classical Chinese Phil & Mahāyāna Buddhist Phil at Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, US; Books: "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China" & "Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on Subliminal Mind" amzn.to/3bzJ2qU
taojiangscholar.com
Clyde Yicheng Wang @clydewang.bsky.social Political scientist, but more political than scientific. China, ideology, propaganda. Assistant professor at Washington and Lee University.
https://sites.google.com/view/clyde-yicheng-wang
Jeffrey Ding @jeffreyding.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Washington University | technology and int'l politics | newsletter on China's AI landscape: http://chinai.substack.com
Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her
@jeffking84.bsky.social @jeffking84.bsky.social 
Adam Brookes @eadbrookes.bsky.social Recovering journalist, dilatory author. 'FRAGILE CARGO: The World War Two Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City'. Also some spy novels. Opinions valid.
Kate Logan @katelogan.bsky.social Climate, energy & environment @ Asia Society Policy Institute @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org + ASPI’s China Climate Hub. Usual caveats.
thesageofportugal (ironic) @sagebrennan.bsky.social Expatriate American Dad in Sintra. Devoted husband and liberal humanist. UNC alum x2. Fan of global-scale kindness and community.
Creativity is what happens while other people are following instructions.
Marco Lazzarotti 李克 @marcolazzarotti.bsky.social Padre, Marito, Antropologo. Come quando ero piccolo,continuo ad innamorarmi di tutto.
Anthropology of China, Taiwan, Greater China, Chinese Religions.
仁者人也
Visit my webpage: https://marcolazzarotti.altervista.org/
Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University/ Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council/Scholarly research, writing, teaching, & policy analysis at the intersection of national security & international political economy/ CFIUS&Tech Controls
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Savio Wong 黃永乾 @savio84.bsky.social My two passions in life: books and travel.
Happily retired since 2017.
www.saviowong.com
Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack. 
@grlau.bsky.social @grlau.bsky.social 
Graham Linn @glinn07.bsky.social Building Performance Engineer, WNBA, NBA
Michael W @michaelwood8.bsky.social Medical journalist, Sydney, via Leeds.
I post stuff about my travels in China and random 1980s music and telly. Blog at josephrock.net
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Ed Sander @edsander.bsky.social China Digital Retail Analyst for chinadigitalretailreport.substack.com
Speaker for ChinaTalk.nl | edsander.com
Study tour leader for ChinaRetailTrip.com
Gilbert Meyns @gmeyns.bsky.social Academic Libraries | Research Support | Languages & Cultures | Law, Business & Economics | Digital Literacy | Open Access | Reefs & Rainforests | Armidale, NSW, Australia
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
Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social Chicago's 32nd Ward Committeeman. Host of Endless Urgency. Exposing MAGA and defending democracy. Entrepreneur, husband, dad, semi-happy Cubs fan.
@jruwitch.bsky.social @jruwitch.bsky.social 煎饼 connoisseur. NPR international correspondent covering China.
"Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin' to be so quiet?"
Kevin Wei Luo @kevinweiluo.bsky.social assistant professor of political science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. China / Taiwan / Asia, politics of state building. usual caveats. 中英俱劣. https://www.kevinweiluo.com/
Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social Former Mui Wo Pirate & Water Buffalo Wrangler. Music Head. History Buff. Bookworm. Wino. Wannabe Stoic. 香港人加油. COYS!
Sorting the sheep from the swans.
Matthew 25:31–46
Michael Hirson @hotpotwhynot.bsky.social China-watcher and considerate Citibiker.
Frank Shyong @frankshyong.bsky.social Journalist, most recently as a columnist for the LA Times. I write about food, culture, neighborhoods and Los Angeles at a newsletter called Lunch Box on Substack. Bento.me/frankbear
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Luke Patey @lukepatey.bsky.social Senior researcher and author, 'How China Loses' & 'The New Kings of Crude' 
Clemente Rodriguez @fcru311.bsky.social International Relations professor. UPC & PUCP. Lima, Perú. Like, following or sharing ≠ endorsement.
Yan Qin @yanqin.bsky.social Carbon analyst at ClearBlue Markets, Research Associate at OIES, China energy analyst living in Oslo 🇳🇴, 🇨🇦🇳🇱 |EnergyTransition•SustainableFuels•SupplyChain #carbonsky #energysky
Kyle Shen @kyleshen.bsky.social Writing about international law and comparative constitutionalism. Teaching Constitutional Law. Foodie and gardening enthusiast. Recovering baker. All views my own
Dave Blewett @planet-daveb.bsky.social Planetary scientist - mainly Moon, Mercury, asteroids. Opinions are my own and do not represent my employer or funding agencies. Namesake of asteroid 8997.
Leonhard Xu @leonhard-xu.bsky.social MPhil in IR @ox.ac.uk | When Geopolitics meets Economics & International Development | EU-China relationship