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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
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
markhleonard.bsky.social @markhleonard.bsky.social Director of @ecfr.eu; Presenter 'Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes' apple.co/2ACObcj; Columnist; Speaker; Author 'The Age of Unpeace', 'What Does China Think?", "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (forthcoming in April)
Paul Charon @paulcharon.bsky.social Research director for Influence and Intelligence at the French Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) | Sinologist & Narratologist | Work on China's propaganda, narratives and influence | Research associate at CARISM | Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po
Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social Vancouver bureau chief for Bloomberg News
tseal@bloomberg.net
Signal: TSeal.01
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AS5AQQizNJE/thomas-seal
Dr. Gudrun Wacker @gudrun-wacker.bsky.social Research Division Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
trying to make sense of China and the Indo-Pacific or life, the universe and everything
Sam Roggeveen @samroggeveen.bsky.social Director of the International Security Program, Lowy Institute. Author of "The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace" (Black Inc, 2023)
Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
www.gppi.net
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.
Charlie @supbrow.bsky.social Fighting Sea-blindness for over 20 years.
Relax. It's just BlueSky, and my own opinions.
Filippo Boni @filippoboni.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @oupolitics.bsky.social | Co-Convenor @psasouthasia.bsky.social | Editor @regfedst.bsky.social
Online profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/fb3868
Alan Keenan @akeenan23.bsky.social I read & write about conflict, democracy & human rights with a focus on SriLanka for @CrisisGroup.org & others. Opinions are mine alone.
Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social Senior Analyst @CrisisGroup. Posts on Philippines, Peace Processes+Deterrence and Durians. 
Margarite Clarey @margariteclarey.bsky.social Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer @crisisgroup.org in Asia. Ex humanitarian and journo. DMs open 💫 Views my own.
👻 x.com/MargariteClarey 
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.
James Kynge @jkynge.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House.
Audiobook: Global Tech Wars: China's Race to Dominate https://open.spotify.com/show/0j6iVkv3wIXkj1twQcZoq0
Elisabeth Braw @elisabethbraw.bsky.social Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe. Author of the upcoming The Undersea War (John Murray & Basic Books this October). Geopolitics & globalisation/greyzone aggression/total defence/societal resilience. Own views
Jordan Schneider @jordanschneider.bsky.social Newsletter: http://chinatalk.media join 40k readers
Podcast: http://link.chtbl.com/chinatalk
Fellow:
@cnasdc
Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com Media: @twz.com | IEJ Media: https://www.iejmedia.com | Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific Podcast: @indopacpodcast.bsky.social
Vincent Ni @nivincent.bsky.social Asia Editor, @NPR.org. Usual caveats.
Zumretay Arkin @zumretayarkin.bsky.social Vice President of the World Uyghur Congress.
Views are mine.
Nathan Law @nathanlawkc.bsky.social Youngest lawmaker of HongKong. Activist. Exiled in London. Author of Freedom.
#TIME100
Nathanlawkc.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social Swede by birth, European by choice.
Ukraine will be victorious!
https://reppa.tools/
Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social Security & geopolitics | Previously based in 🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Capital Germany 40 under 40 | ☕ http://buymeacoffee.com/jberlin | Don’t just get mad, get busy | https://berlinbridge.substack.com/subscribe
Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com A leader of the Russian opposition, reformer. Ex-political prisoner (2003–2013). Follow for insights on current events in Russia and beyond.
My book 'How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin' is available here — https://a.co/d/ai95jkW 
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social Economist & author, specializing in the economics of Eastern Europe, especially Russia & Ukraine.
@jensstoltenberg.bsky.social @jensstoltenberg.bsky.social 
Pol Morillas @polmorillas.bsky.social Director, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur 
Jotted @jotted.bsky.social Shanghai bureau chief @nytimes currently in Hong Kong. Got a tip?alexandra.stevenson@nytimes.com 
Mario Esteban @marioesteban.bsky.social Catedrático y Director del @ceao_uam - Investigador Principal (Asia-Pacífico) del @rielcano
James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com 🇨🇦 Asia correspondent, @theglobeandmail.com
📚 Author, ‘The Great Firewall of China’ and ‘Speak Not’
📍 Hong Kong
🔒 jgriffiths.852
Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social Globe and Mail reporter in Ottawa bureau
stevenchase.ca
@stevenchase on Twitter
Dui Hua Foundation @duihua.bsky.social Advancing clemency in China for religious and political prisoners through well-informed and mutually respectful dialogue. Visit our website to learn more: https://duihua.org/
CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social CHRD promotes human rights protection & empowers grassroots activism.
“人权捍卫者网络” 致力于推进人权保护、增强民间能力建设。
Visit us also at 其它社媒：Instagram/Threads: @chrdnet
LinkedIn: Chinese Human Rights Defenders
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
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
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
The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social Covering China like no one else.
Free Newsletter: http://thewirechina.com/newsletter
Subscriptions: http://thewirechina.com/subscriptions
Atlantic Council @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social Shaping the global future together.
Subscribe to our newsletters: https://engage.atlanticcouncil.org/Standard-Sign-up-Newsletters.html
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social Host of "Scam Inc", a podcast series about the global rise of online scams & Asia correspondent at The Economist. Before that, I covered China, South-East Asia and hosted "The Prince", a podcast series about China's leader Xi Jinping
Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social Professor and director, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs @gspia-esapi.bsky.social, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Associate fellow, Chatham House.
https://rolandparis.com/
Hong Zhang @hz-udhr.bsky.social Twitter @hz_udhr
BlueSky birth date: 2024-11-16
Have been convincing people mainly in vain since 2009 that the CCP and the PRC under its rule are the 21st century’s Nazi and 3rd Reich, cancer of the world
BS, MM, PhD
Jason Rezaian @rezaian.bsky.social Director of Press Freedom Initiatives at The Washington Post
Dave Brown @davebrown.bsky.social Deputy Managing Editor for Global Security at Politico
Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Mark Leon Goldberg @markleongoldberg.bsky.social Veteran international affairs journalist. Editor, UN Dispatch. Host and founder, Global Dispatches. https://www.globaldispatches.org/ 
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social I don’t post often, so I try to make every one count. I’ve worked for 45 years in government, think tanks, Georgetown U. and philanthropy. I write, lecture and do media interviews. On Substack at: joecirincione.substack.com
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
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
Jerker Hellström @jerkerhellstrom.bsky.social China Fellow, I.D.E.A.
Niklas Swanstrom @niklasswanstrom.bsky.social Executive Director for ISDP (www.isdp.eu)
Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social House Committee responsible for foreign policy legislation and oversight | Ranking Member (RM) Gregory W. Meeks 
Josh Smith @joshjonsmith.bsky.social Reuters Senior Correspondent covering North and South Korea
𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 @npcobserver.com Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee | “[I]nvaluable,” per 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵: http://bit.ly/4csmiTK | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/npcobserver
Adam Taylor @mradamtaylor.bsky.social Washington Post reporter covering Trump administration foreign policy with a focus on the State Department. Adam.taylor@washpost.com or Mradamtaylor.01 on signal
Alexander Cooley @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Global authoritarianism, Kleptocracy, Eurasia, International Order, and Geopolitics & the Academy.
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
AliVaez.bsky.social @alivaez.bsky.social Director of #Iran Project & Senior Advisor @CrisisGroup; Adjunct Prof @Georgetown; Fellow @FPI_SAIS; Ex @UNDPPA @FAScientists @Harvard
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
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.
Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通（非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home. 
Comfort Ero @comfortero.crisisgroup.org President & CEO @crisisgroup
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Greg Torode @gregtorode.bsky.social HK-based Reuters Special Correspondent covering regional security. Posts/re-posts for interest, not endorsement. Views my own.
Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social German journalist, Beijing Bureau Chief of dpa German Press Agency for 30 years, Asia-Pacific Head until 2023, Liberty Award 2011, former correspondent in U.S.
Dave Kang @daveckang.bsky.social Going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm!
(Also: USSF "National B" license, when "A" was as high as it went.)
https://www.daveckang.net/
Chun Han Wong @chunhanwong.bsky.social China-focused reporter for The Wall Street Journal. 《華爾街日報》記者。我東寫西讀。 Author of "Party of One," an account of Xi Jinping's rise to power and how he changed China: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Party-of-One/Chun-Han-Wong/9781982185749
Frank Aum @frankaum.bsky.social Senior Expert on Northeast Asia, U.S. Institute of Peace; former senior advisor on Korea, Defense Department 2011-2017
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
Bates Gill @batesgill.bsky.social Career-long observer of Indo-Pacific politics, foreign policy + security, with a focus on China; Senior Fellow, National Bureau of Asian Research; Senior Fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; author of "Daring to Struggle"
Moritz Rudolf @moritzrudolf.bsky.social China Fellow - European Commission - DG IDEA
Research Scholar & Fellow @YaleLawSch - Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)
China Analyst, Lawyer, Dr. iur.
(Private account)
Karim Lebhour @kalebhour.bsky.social Comms Director @TheElders | Recovering journo in MidEast, Africa & U.S. Graphic novel author. 
Will Ripley @willripleycnn.bsky.social CNN Senior International Correspondent. Cat Dad. Based in Taiwan.
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
Laurel Chor @laurelchor.bsky.social Journalist, photographer & documentary filmmaker from Hong Kong. National Geographic Explorer. she/her
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester. 
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent. 
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
Jomart Ormonbekov @ormonti.bsky.social Conflicts. Diplomacy. Food, TV, books and movies.
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @realsexycyborg.bsky.social China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber
Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec
1/18th synthetic
'It's all about merit until merit has tits'
Shenzhen, China
youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg
Stephen Pomper @stevepomper.bsky.social Chief of Policy @CrisisGroup.org. Formerly NSC senior director for human rights + UN affairs and State Department assistant legal adviser for pol-mil issues. 
The Intel Crab @intelcrab.bsky.social Open source investigator. An actual human. Not a real crab, believe it or not. 
David Y. Lee @davidylee.bsky.social Senior Program Officer, Storytelling at National Geographic Society
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.
Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social Study China maritime strategy & int’l security policy
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Book: China’s Law of the Sea yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/
Hannah Beech @hkbeech.bsky.social Asia reporter at The New York Times. Noodles, pickles, spice. 
Shea Cotton @sheacotton.bsky.social 
Alexander Gabuev 陈寒士 @alexgabuev.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Senior Advisor at DGA Group.
Tanvi Madan @tanvimadan.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookingsinst.bsky.social. Work on Indian foreign policy, the Indo-Pacific, minilaterals like the Quad
Author, "Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Rels During the Cold War." Host, Global India podcast
brookings.edu/experts/madant
Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social 🎓 Assistant Professor, Leiden University. 👨🔧Techno-optimist.
🏠 https://scdenney.net/
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/