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
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
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
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
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.
Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account
I talk about pens. 🖋️
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social Chinalawtranslate.com is a cooperative website for translations and commentary on Chinese Law.
Jeremy Daum is a Sr. Researcher at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, focussing on criminal justice and policing.
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
Support us: http://LNI.media/membership
Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social Reporter @ The Washington Sun. Formerly chief econ correspondent @ The Washington Post. Founder Ithaca Voice. Writing a biography on Bernie Sanders.
X Zhang @xunchaoz.bsky.social International Security Fellow at @StanfordCISAC . #InternationalRelations Political Science PhD @UWMadison , formerly at @UChicago.
zhangxunchao.com
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
Agatha Cantrill @aggichristiane.bsky.social Journalist covering China for AFP
🎥📝 // 🗣️🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇨🇳 she/her
Previously Berlin-based journalist for Bloomberg / Bloomberg TV
DM for WeChat/Signal
Kai_Greenpeace @zhangkai0906.bsky.social Deputy Program Director at Greenpeace East Asia. Focus on China's coal to clean transition and its overseas energy investment.
Nicole Tung @nicoletung.bsky.social Photographer | Member of @viiphoto
Based in Istanbul
Lauren Weber @laurenweberhp.bsky.social Health Accountability reporter at The Washington Post focused on HHS, health policy and its impact. You can reach me at lauren.weber@washpost.com and on Signal @LWeber.91
Doug MacMillan @douglasmac.bsky.social biz + tech investigations @washingtonpost
douglas.macmillan@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/douglas-macmillan/
Mara Hvistendahl @hvistendahl.bsky.social Investigative reporter with The New York Times. I do books too (UNNATURAL SELECTION, THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY). Send tips to mara.hvistendahl@nytimes.com or DM for Signal.
Morning Post 早报 @morningpost.bsky.social Morsels from CCP media.
Claire Chu @clairejchu.bsky.social Principal, Geoecon Threat Intel at Janes. Nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. Tracking China’s overseas activity, foreign policy, and econ-security nexus. DC via CA.
I’m new here, posts incoming!
Ursula Gauthier @ugauthier.bsky.social French journo, ex-correspondent in China, expelled for reporting repression in Xinjiang. Keeps writing about Uyghur, Tibetan and Chinese victims of the CCP.
Emmanuel Felton @efelton.bsky.social New Orleans native now living in New York and working as the race and ethnicity reporter at @washingtonpost.com, I’m also writing The Search for Black Mecca for Harper Collins. Proud alum of BuzzFeed News and @hechingerreport.org
Jenn Rosenthal @jennrosenthal.bsky.social Unusually enthusiastic. Thinking about the intersection of tech, policy & media. Chief Comms @ DeFi Education Fund. Grayscale, FGS_Global & Pearson Alum. BK/NYC.
Louisa Casson @louisacasson.bsky.social Oceans & climate campaigner. Lead Greenpeace campaign to stop deep sea mining. Global environmental politics, extractivism in the transition and the high seas. Opinions my own
Yutao Chen 陈昱陶 @yutaochen.bsky.social senior interactive news designer @washingtonpost.com • filmmaker • photographer
Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social ABC News Polling Director, former Postie, feminist, library fan, BRCA mutant. Nats! Caps! Terps! Kill them with kindness and methodological rigor. she/her signal: emgusk.04
Ben Brasch @benbrasch.bsky.social Local government reporter at City Cast DC (@citycastdc.bsky.social) but mostly other things
@joycelau.bsky.social @joycelau.bsky.social
Rachel Keith @rachelkwhqr.bsky.social Journalist and host for WHQR Public Media in Wilmington, North Carolina. WHQR.org
@alexolorenshaw.bsky.social @alexolorenshaw.bsky.social
Brian Hart @brianthart.bsky.social 贺博然 | Deputy Director and Fellow, @csis.org @chinapower.csis.org | Working at the intersection of China, security, foreign policy, and tech
https://www.csis.org/people/brian-hart
Jonathan Brown @jonathaneebrown.bsky.social Ukraine Deputy Bureau Chief @afpnews.bsky.social
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
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/
Peter Stevenson @peterwstevenson.bsky.social Photo editor at @washingtonpost.com. peter.stevenson@washpost.com
Ashifa Kassam @ashifakassam.bsky.social Correspondent covering communities and stories across Europe for The Guardian. Previously based in Spain & Canada for @TheGuardian.com. Thoughts & ideas always welcome
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
Christina Lu @christinalu.bsky.social energy and environment reporter @foreignpolicy.com // say hi at christina.lu@foreignpolicy.com
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.
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.🏳️🌈
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
Eike Klapper @eikeklapper.bsky.social EU diplomat in Washington D.C. 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Industrial policy at @EUintheUS 🏗️ Posts may contain sports 🐐⚽️🐴🏈🧙♀️🏀 Views my own. RT not endorsement 🕵️♂️
Ifang Bremer @ifangbremer.bsky.social Journalist and photographer covering human rights, spying, the escapee community and more.
Natalie Compton @nataliecompton.bsky.social Traveler & journalist at the Washington Post
https://nataliecompton.substack.com/
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
Mike Tatarski @miketatarski.bsky.social Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly: https://thevietnamweekly.substack.com/2025
Thomas Cristofoletti @tcristofoletti.bsky.social Documentary cinematographer & photojournalist based between Bangkok, Thailand & Cambodia. Co-founder of Ruom Collective - 📷 on NYTimes - SCMP - BBC - Bloomberg
James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social Statehouse and politics reporter for the Alaska Beacon. Juneauite. Formerly with the Anchorage Daily News, Juneau Empire, Kodiak Daily Mirror and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
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
Javier Triana @javiertriana.bsky.social Periodista y productor / Journalist and producer
Persona analógica en los ratos libres
Excorresponsal en 🇨🇳🇹🇷🇵🇭🇰🇪
Autor de: https://www.librosdelko.com/collections/javier-triana
Codirector y guionista de: https://unacarreradefondo.com/
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Scott Dance @byscottdance.com Writing about the ways climate change is reshaping our lives for The New York Times. Send news tips and recipes to @ssdance.22 on Signal.
@matthewsphillips.bsky.social @matthewsphillips.bsky.social
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
Elaine Godfrey @elainegodfrey.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Politics, etc. Iowan 🌽
Lucy Nicholson @lucynic.bsky.social Director of Global Photography @AP | Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist prev. @Reuters | @ColumbiaJournMA Science & Climate | @NewmarkJLeaders 2023.
Aleksandra Bielakowska 白奧蘭 @ketalaolan.bsky.social Advocacy Manager at Reporters Without Borders & President of RSF Taiwan Chapter / Human Rights, Press Freedom, Taiwan, China & Hong Kong / Formerly Correspondent for PAP / views expressed are my own @rsf.org & @rsf-chinese.bsky.social
Glenna Gordon @glennagordon.bsky.social 📷 🚑⚡️🍎
Current: Los Angeles
Previous: NYC, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, etc.
Also: teacher, emt, occasional writer.
New: SCUBA! Let's dive.
Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social Chronically tardy yet somehow…Breaking news + bummer beats, formerly @washingtonpost
Why are you booing me? I’m right.
✶ ✶ CHICAGO ✶ ✶
Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
Tanner Brown @tannerb.bsky.social Writing about China's society and economy and damn do my fingers hurt. Probably scaling a ripe wet mountain road somewhere in Taiwan. Recent writings: https://muckrack.com/tanner-brown/articles Twitter archives: https://x.com/luoshanj
Jordan Ryan @peaceful1.blue Former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Carter Center Vice President for Peace. Currently advises the UN, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Toda Peace Institute, and Hamilton Advisors. Founding member of Diplomats Without Borders.
Chris Russell @russ-chris.bsky.social Desk Editor, @asia.nikkei.com | Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024 @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez @yvonnewingett.bsky.social Staff writer, @theatlantic
Fan of mentors, Kinsey Millhone and the snooze button. DM for Signal.
Joanna Nestorides @joannanestorides.bsky.social Esq. / China-researcher at IDIS
Energy-Trade-Security | EU-US-Asia-Pacific | Poet / Writer |
I write about China, World Politics, Books, Films & Pop Culture
📌: 🇬🇷•🇨🇾•🇺🇸•🇫🇷•🇵🇱•🇧🇪
Andy Lim @andysaulim.com Deputy Director & Fellow @korea.csis.org
- China's Weaponization of Trade: https://shorturl.at/X3yPG
- Koreanists starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/U3Nm5FX
- Personal website: andysaulim.com
- Moonlighting at @citylightsofchina.bsky.social
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social Ragebait author at Zeteo
Past: Senior reporter at The Independent, senior media reporter at The Daily Beast.
Tips/hate mail: justin@zeteonews.com
You can also hit me up on Signal at justinbaragona.85
Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com I’m CTO at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (@icij.org) where I build interactive stories, data driven investigations and tools.
#PandoraPapers #UberFiles #FinCENFiles #LuandaLeaks and many more.
Anna Phillips @annamphillips.bsky.social Graduate student, former climate reporter at the Washington Post
Signal: anna_phillips.58
NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social https://nuvoices.com/ | http://patreon.com/nuvoices
Hari Raj @jarirah.bsky.social Inadequately palindromic. Seoul hub editor for The Washington Post.
Vivian Ho @vivianho.bsky.social Freelance journalist in London. Joan of Narrative Arc. Forever Californian.
@anthonyfaiola.bsky.social @anthonyfaiola.bsky.social
Alex Ma @alexandrama.bsky.social Breaking news @washingtonpost.com. New here.
Leo Sands @leo-sands.bsky.social Breaking news reporter at The Washington Post
Karishma Mehrotra @karishma-m.bsky.social Washington Post in South Asia
Jintak Han @jintakhan.com Photojournalist and picture editor in Seoul
Former photo editor, @washingtonpost.com
Member of @diversifyphoto.bsky.social
Trained linguist. 🗣🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵
@rachelpannett.bsky.social @rachelpannett.bsky.social
Michael Birnbaum @mbirnbaum.bsky.social White House correspondent @washingtonpost.com.
Bryan Pietsch 정동수 @pietsch.bsky.social Bloomberg editor covering breaking DC news. Former WaPo, NYT
Michael Coren @mjcoren.bsky.social Washington Post climate advice columnist. Bring data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/michael-coren/
Stefano Pitrelli @stefanopitrelli.bsky.social Investigative journalist, reporter in The Washington Post Rome Bureau 🇮🇹🇻🇦🇪🇺
Efraín Hernández Jr. @efrainhernandezjr.bsky.social Deputy Editor - National Justice & Courts at The Washington Post.
Once upon a time: Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant, Hispanic Link News Service in Washington, D.C.
Forever: Boricua.
Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social 🌍 World news for The Washington Post. Assyrian. joseph.snell@washpost.com
Salwan Georges @salwangeorges.bsky.social 📸 Pulitzer Prize-winning Visual Journalist
📧 SalwanGeorges@gmail.com
🔗 https://linktr.ee/salwangeorges
Paul Schemm @paulschemm.bsky.social Editing Russia/Ukraine at the Washington Post, longtime Cairo resident but definitely left stuff in Rabat and Addis Ababa. Now London.
John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social I cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post
Mary Ilyushina @ilyushina.bsky.social The Washington Post Eastern Europe Reporter, mainly covering Russia and Ukraine
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Greg Miller @gregpmiller.bsky.social International Investigations for The Washington Post. Based in London. Author of The Apprentice, Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy. greg.miller@washpost.com; signal/whatsapp: +1 202-494-1545.
Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social Muckraker, traveler, adventuress. East and Southern Africa Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Email: katharine.houreld at washpost.com
Francesca Ebel @francescaebel.bsky.social I write about Russia and Ukraine for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/francesca-ebel/
Ex North Africa correspondent.
Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social Washington Post. These days following Russia's war on Ukraine. I'm hoping I won't need to explain "Never been to Potomac" here.