Experts' /popular online debates within China - joint project MERICS @merics.bsky.social & @unitrier.bsky.social - supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
https://merics.org/de/china-spektrum
DE: https://www.threads.net/@sinologie.trier
Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
www.netaskari.online, cyber operations from China, the world and other stuff
A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
Working on PRC digital authoritarianism in Article 19.
Former NPP & Doublethink Lab, based in Taipei.
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
Middle East scholar, focus on the Gulf states, Political Islam, Shi’ism | Geopolitical Analyst | PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University | Fellow at INSS & Dayan Center
Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Public Service Fellow at Lawfare • Ex Pentagon & State Department • Recovering academic • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat (Oxford University Press) & co-author of Triple Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China (Bloomsbury)
Senior Resident China Fellow at AtlanticCouncil's DFRLab. Georgetown PhD. Examining issues at the nexus of PRC data governance and geopolitical AI competition. Methodologically promiscuous. 🏳️🌈
Freelance journalist in Taipei | has been called a "professional Jew"
Research Lead at @doublethinklab.bsky.social.
Tainan, Taiwan.
Senior Policy Fellow at LSE's Grantham Research Institute. I work on the political economy of financing a green transition in China and other global South countries
I track state-backed info ops at @isdglobal.bsky.social. Cited by the Economist, AP, CNN, Washington Post, and others. Opinions mine and open to change
Principal analyst at Google's Threat Intelligence Group. Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Views my own.
https://markparkeryoung.net
Politics of the China, Taiwan, and US triangle. Tea leaf reader and bubble tea drinker. @ANU, @AtlanticCouncil.
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/people/wen-ti-sung
Senior Analyst at @epc-official.bsky.social. China, NATO, Indo-Pacific, ASEAN, security and defence at large. Usual caveats apply.
For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Personal account
Head of Threat Analysis @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
French journo, ex-correspondent in China, expelled for reporting repression in Xinjiang. Keeps writing about Uyghur, Tibetan and Chinese victims of the CCP.
Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Taiwan, China, and the occasional Star Trek reference. Thoughts are my own.
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council. Auther "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World."
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of “Under the Nuclear Shadow” (Princeton, 2025). China, nukes, cyber, space, international security. She/her. Personal website: www.fionascunningham.com
Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Exposing troll farms: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 and beyond
Cited by: @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com @CNN.com @Wired.com @afpfactuel.bsky.social @LeMonde.fr @SZde.bsky.social @TheTimes.com @NBCnews.com @EFE.com
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Telegraph Senior Foreign Correspondent | Marie Colvin Award Winner | Posts: 🌍🌏🌎🎹🎶🥃🍜🧘🏻♀️| Now: IST Then: TPE PEK HKG TYO NYC DCA HNL
Deputy Head Paris office and Policy fellow @ecfr #MiddleEast geoeconomics, #Gulf, #China-MENA, #RedSea. Ex-@IISS_org
(usual caveats) camille.lons@ecfr.eu
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.
Lived in BeiJing Mar 2019 - Mar 2020. Now writing a book as I’m the only foreigner who really gets “China.”
Global affairs academic/ TV Host 📚📺🖋️ Podcaster “Deep Dive” 🎙️ Columnist @inquirerdotnet; Senior Lecturer @UPAsianCenter; Munich Security Conference YL; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Heydarian
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).
Asia-focused nonprofit with 16 locations around the world, building bridges through policy, culture, arts, and more.
Research fellow @ODIGlobal London, former @SAIScari @BUGDP. China's global development finance, African infrastructure, embroidery, mushrooms
The Economist’s Chief China Correspondent & Drum Tower podcast co-host. Previously, the Wall Street Journal’s chief political & diplomatic reporter in Beijing 2010-21. Also posted in Moscow & Delhi. 12 int'l journalism awards. www.linkedin.com/in/jnbpage
Economic security and China
Research Leader China and Economic Security at Rand Europe; Non-resident Fellow at Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies @CSIS; host of the podcast Geoeconomic Competition. Former MERICS, IAI
Following mostly economic security issues in East Asia and Europe, from Taipei and Paris. An eye for all things maritime. Director of International Studies at Institut Montaigne.
Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
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
Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 for Rhodium Group in Berlin. You can sign up for my newsletter here (noahbarkin.substack.com)
🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault
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
Shaping the global future together.
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Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
Former U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer currently studying ancient Chinese military & strategic texts and arguing for the need to study and debate them more broadly within our own military PME and academic institutions.
Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Australian in DC. Views are my own.
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/
China curious
filmmaker and writer
for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/
Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Assistant Professor at Georgetown (lizhiliu.com); Political Economy, Tech & China; Author of From Click to Boom (https://t.co/UL6RIfmdTm)
宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
Foreign Affairs (Asia Pacific) reporter, ABC. Canberra-based. Personal account. Pron: JED-jets
Lead Analyst at MERICS. China foreign and security policies. RT ≠ endorsement and other usual disclaimers.
Book on UK-China shadow international relations: http://tinyurl.com/3ny5c5ee
Senior Analyst at GI-TOC: developing concept of geocriminality.
PhD on shadow international relations. Previously academia. Views my own. Erstwhile 北漂儿
Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Ex China state media commentary writer. Interests: disinfo, comms, and cronuts.
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
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/
Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU Shanghai via Princeton Politics
International Organization & International Political Economy
https://jingqian.org
OSINT analyst. Interested in anything and everything related to the PLA. Views my own.
IR & China l Senior Analyst @MERICS l Prev.: Managing Editor @9DASHLINE, Postdoc @FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pre-order my book “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s Vision of International Relations”: https://shorturl.at/VEUlf.
Professor @POLSIS University of Queensland. Political economist. Asia & Pacific security & development; the 'Second Cold War'; good hummus; bad puns. Unusual disclaimers apply. https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/13942
A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
Research Fellow at The Australian National University; 🇨🇳 investment advisory; author Beijing to Canberra and Back. Focus: 🇦🇺-🇨🇳 & 🇦🇺-🇹🇼 relations. Ex Department of Defence. Usual caveats.
Lecturer in Politics at University of Glasgow focusing on China; Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Law and Government; sleep deprived mum
RAND China Research Center. Former Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS Economics Program, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Political Scientist professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
izading.substack.com
Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
China Fellow - European Commission - DG IDEA
Research Scholar & Fellow @YaleLawSch - Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)
China Analyst, Lawyer, Dr. iur.
(Private account)
Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Executive Director, Mercator Institute for China Studies MERICS | RTs ≠ endorsements | All opinions = my own
She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Foreign affairs reporter @DIE ZEIT, previously in Beijing
doing journalism 📝 for table.briefings about china 🇨🇳 interested in eu-china relations, mass communication, online trends, tv & film
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer. Chinese Politics. Political Economy. Policy-Making. EU-China relations. Sport Diplomacy
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.
Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
I teach & research public policy, health, environment, and crisis management in China. http://annemiekevandendool.com.
Expert on international order and Asian security. Director, Taiwan Policy Initiative and Senior Political Scientist @ RAND. 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
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
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
Writer and investigator on China and beyond
Administrative law/Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host, China Studies podcast.
https://global.upenn.edu/global-initiatives/person/neysun-mahboubi
Covering Asia for NBC News.
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Research Fellow @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social
China + Emerging Tech
Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @ColumbiaUP.bsky.social; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
Views my own
China & climate reporter @bloomberg.com
PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Interested in authoritarianism, media control, & nationalism. Former journalist with a stint as a 互联网打工人
https://linettelim.com/
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
Philosophy. Political Theory. Comparative Politics. Law. https://philpeople.org/profiles/yao-lin-1/publications
