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Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
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Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07 https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
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Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
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Independent Journalist. Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
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Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
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Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
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Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD UniofOxford, previously Sciences Po. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
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Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
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Newspaper and illustrations at Politico. Founder of TheOmnicosm.com, home of the Popculturology, Snackology and Brain Slop newsletters. Rochester, N.Y., native. Was once featured on Late Night. https://www.theomnicosm.com/signup/
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NPR correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Now DC-based. My book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" is now out: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/let-only-red-flowers-bloom-by-emily-feng/
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Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
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A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s
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CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. maxboot.net.
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Expert on international order and Asian security. Director, Taiwan Policy Initiative and Senior Political Scientist @ RAND. 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
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Personal/unofficial account of VOA's chief national correspondent. Author: ‘Behind the White House Curtain.’ Board member: National Press Club, @juristnews.bsky.social; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7VOA on ham radio. Adjunct asst. professor, Shenandoah Univ.
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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
@brianhioe.bsky.social
Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme, freelance journalist, translator, and DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
@lnachman32.bsky.social
Political scientist. Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. My new book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is available for preorder here: https://shorturl.at/BlEJE https://www.lnachman.com
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New Bloom is an online magazine covering youth culture and politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.
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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.
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Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
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Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
@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, and Singapore
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Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
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I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Currently Director of Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford.
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Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
@dmsilverman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
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Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. Come for the politics, stay for the pop culture and dog photos. She/Her. All views are my own. www.daniellelupton.com
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Asst. Prof. of poli sci at UW-Eau Claire | PhD at UC Davis, JD at GWU Law | political theory & con law | apatheist | ex-Mormon | father | 13th-level warlock
@nicolewu.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Previously @ Michigan & Princeton. Political economy of job automation/technology & globalization. http://nicolewu.com
@jamestwotree.bsky.social
Historian of Taiwan & the World. Assistant 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
@nathanattrill.bsky.social
China Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
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Polisci professor, University of Toronto & 東京大学 (prev. Stanford, Harvard). IPE, IOs, climate, Japan; website: https://www.lipscy.org Director: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj Book: http://amazon.com/dp/1316604284/
@kharist.bsky.social
Political scientist w/ Hoover Project on Taiwan in Indo-Pacific @Stanford. Formerly @UMich @UofR. Oregon-born and raised.
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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.
@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.
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Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow @Brookingsinst. Latest book: "WILDLAND: The Making of America's Fury." http://bit.ly/3DE5Fnr
@christiangoebel.bsky.social
Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
@holmeschan.bsky.social
Hong Kong correspondent for AFP. Mostly reports on politics, law and culture
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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.
@lmorgenbesser.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
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Thoughts on global politics, Asia, cross strait relations (Taiwan), tech, the economy, & international trade. Occasional brittle bon mot. Georgetown MSFS, Ex-Alibaba, Ex-Flickr. On the hunt for data.