Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Markus Reuter @markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org Journalist at netzpolitik.org | Digital & Tech | Surveillance | Censorship | Human Rights | Social Movements | https://netzpolitik.org/author/markusr | Mastodon: https://23.social/@markusreuter
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Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social Associate Prof/SL in Intelligence Studies @warstudies @kcl.ac.uk www.KCSI.uk
Interests: #ColdWar #intelligence #covertops, #terrorism, USSR/Russia, CEE, #MiddleEast
Author of 📙 #WatchingTheJackals
👉 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watching-the-Jackals
Johann Wadephul @aussenminister.diplo.de Außenminister der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
@nyrolaelima.bsky.social @nyrolaelima.bsky.social https://nyrola.se
Antiokhos in the West @antiokhos.bsky.social History, archaeology, beer. Delighting in Amazonic excess. Greece, Rome, China, Latin America, Britannic tribes. Hunting down Saxon churches. Twitter: @AntiokhosE
GTMO Watch @gtmowatch.bsky.social Aircraft landing at and leaving the US navy base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Data from public ADS-B signals that military planes don't always send. Most flights are routine cargo/troop transport. False positives possible. By @bellingcat.com
Boris Schumatsky @schumatsky.bsky.social literature | politics | http://schumatsky.de
@kriegsforscher.bsky.social @kriegsforscher.bsky.social Private entrepreneur before the full-scale invasion. Ukrainian Marine Corps. UAV company. PP for support: osint4ua@gmail.com
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.
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Hans Koberstein @hanskoberstein.bsky.social Redakteur ZDF frontal - kein ZDF Account.
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
mastodon.world/@auonsson , x.com/auonsson backup 🇸🇪
David Bandurski @dbandurski.bsky.social Executive Director of the China Media Project, a think tank promoting freedom of expression through research and journalism capacity building.
chinamediaproject.org
https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/
https://linguasinica.substack.com/
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer.
Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
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.
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
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
Cam MacMurchy @cammacmurchy.com Former journalist, radio / TV host, and scribbler on 9to5Mac. Now handling communications for a global tech company. Media, travel, tech, Canucks. @ Hong Kong | Bangkok.
Hermann Aubié 寒濤 @hermannaubie.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Global China, Taiwan, Human Rights, Climate Emergency.
Sam Vortherms @svortherms.bsky.social Poli Sci Asst. Prof UCI | Comparative Politics | China | Migration | Development
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
New China Books 📚 @newchinabooks.bsky.social All the books you could ever read about China.
Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
Peter Lorentzen @lorentzen.bsky.social Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
izading.substack.com
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
Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波 @xiaobolu.bsky.social Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley. Very infrequent social media user.
David on Formosa @davidonformosa.bsky.social Interested in Taiwan, democracy and human rights.
https://davidonformosa.wordpress.com/
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).
Ketian Vivian Zhang @vivianchang36.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Security @GMU Schar School. Faculty director of IRTF. Coercion, security & IPE, Chinese foreign policy & domestic politics.
Christian Straube @cstraube.bsky.social Director (interim) Europe in the World @stiftungmercator.bsky.social | Alumnus Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, Tsinghua University & @daadworldwide.bsky.social | AFS #Malaysia '01 | #fieldwork in #Zambia '15-16
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
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social stately, plump Buck Mulligan
Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social Un Français à Taipei.
Mon blog sur les livres de/sur Taiwan: www.lettresdetaiwan.com
Doublethink Lab @doublethinklab.bsky.social A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
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
Taiwan Trails and Tales @taiwantrailsandtales.com I’m a British woman living and working in Taiwan, my partner’s homeland, and I’m here to spam your feed with all things mountains, trails, #hiking and #Taiwan.
www.taiwantrailsandtales.com
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
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.
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol WSJ caption 🏆 | Space | Clean Energy | US-China | USC | RT/Like ≠ endorsement | Formerly @raykwong.bsky.social | Bad posts still written by my intern. #ENDALZ #NASASocial #resist #nodrama 💙 https://x.com/raykwong
Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | HNL. 🏳️🌈
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social Environmental journalism that lifts up local voices & fosters constructive global conversations.
Find us at: https://dialogue.earth
Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
Craig Kafura @ckafura.bsky.social Director, foreign policy and public opinion @Chicago Council; Fellow @Truman National Security Project; old Young Leader @Pacific Forum. Dad, husband, and hockey player. Via Columbia, Yale, and Appalachia.
Kharis Templeman @kharist.bsky.social Political scientist w/ Hoover Project on Taiwan in Indo-Pacific @Stanford. Formerly @UMich @UofR. Oregon-born and raised.
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
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
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u
Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social & editorial board @cpcs.bsky.social
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
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
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social Hong Kong. Camping in the hills because the Murray Barracks were full
Clarissa Wei @dearclarissa.bsky.social Freelance writer. Author of MADE IN TAIWAN. www.clarissawei.com
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
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
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social Award-winning author 🇨🇳🇬🇧 :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault
Gabor Halasz @gaborhalasz.bsky.social ARD-Korrespondent. Im Hauptstadtstudio. Von 2012-2016 in Südasien. Privater Account. Meine Meinung.
#MilkTeaAlliance Galleries @mtamuseum.bsky.social Museumificating fight for freedom 🐈🏴
Galleries: linktr.ee/mtamuseum
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Oliver Linow @oliverlinow.bsky.social Internet Freedom Specialist at Deutsche Welle (DW)
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Jonas Olsson @jonasolsson.bsky.social Defence Correspondent BreakingDefense.com | Nordic/Baltic security & breaking stories | Former SVT journalist (Sweden’s public broadcaster, 30+ years) 🌍 linktr.ee/jonasolsson
David Missal @davidmissal.bsky.social Stellvertretender Geschäftsführer & Pressesprecher @tibetinitiative.bsky.social
Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, here in personal capacity, views strictly my own.
David Tobin @drdavidtobin.bsky.social Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://sheffield.ac.uk/las/people/east-asian-studies-staff/david-tobin
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
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
Silvia Stöber @tavisupleba.bsky.social Senior Reporterin CORRECTIV Sicherheits-und Außenpolitik, Osteuropa und darüber hinaus. Buch: “Mord im Tiergarten. Putins Staatsterror in Europa” im Verlag Herder.
Norbert Röttgen @nroettgen.bsky.social Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages | Stellv. Vorsitzender der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion für Auswärtiges & Verteidigung | Optimismus 🚀 Europa 🇪🇺 und Espresso ☕️
Jens Tönnesmann @tojeto.bsky.social Journalist bei der ZEIT, Co-Host des Wirtschaftspodcast "Ist das eine Blase?" www.zeit.de/serie/ist-das-eine-blase ||| Profilfoto: Vera Tammen
Oleksandr Polianichev @opolianichev.bsky.social Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | URIS Fellow at @unibas.ch | Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from @eui-eu.bsky.social
Frank R. Hofmann @frankrhofmann.bsky.social Journalist and author * Europe * Security * World
👉🏽http://linkedin.com/in/frankrhofmann
posts strictly private
Dennis Pohl @dnnsphl.bsky.social Hauptstadtbüro Tagesspiegel
Tibet Initiative Deutschland @tibetinitiative.bsky.social Die Tibet Initiative Deutschland setzt sich seit 1989 für das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Tibeter und die Wahrung der Menschenrechte in Tibet ein.
https://www.tibet-initiative.de
Eugene @yevh.bsky.social 🌈🇺🇦🦄 🌱🧘♂️
Julian Hans @julianhans.eu Journalist | Ortsmarken: Freiburg, Nowosibirsk, Frankfurt (Oder), Poznań, Hamburg, München, Moskau, Sankt Petersburg, Murmansk, Wolgograd, Tbilisi, Jerewan, Machatschkala, Kyjiw, Donezk, Odessa, Lwiw, Simferopol, Kaliningrad, Bischkek, Aşgabat, Minsk
Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Brian Johnson @professorbrian.bsky.social Visiting Professor of Practice; teaching European Politics at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University