Very interesting interview with Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent of the Telegraph) on Friday's #Ukraine:TheLatest podcast (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMI8...) about China's role in supplying Russia with dual-use technologies and materials.

A v late repost of a story I did 😬🤭

Obulqasim Isma’il, a #Uyghur, was given a new passport w the wrong name & DOB. The #Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan, where he lives with his family, refused to correct it www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

'Consultants' charging #migrants $$$ to help fake their way into #Europe w fraudulent paperwork – fake CVs, fake job references, fake bank statements A scam of such breadth & depth to obtain real, approved visas My latest @telegraphnews.bsky.social investigation www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

‘Obliterated,’ declares #Trump, ‘Nothing significant,’ says #Khamenei. Was the uranium spirited away first? Many questions... So how badly damaged is #Iran's #nuclear program? Insights @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social @ddolzikova.bsky.social Farzan Sabet www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Very interesting analysis @mixedmigration.org on potential #migration impact from #Israel-#Iran war if ceasefire doesn't hold & conflict continues Take the scenario of #Syria. At peak of civil war, 1/4 of its 23m pop fled abroad; another 1/4 internally displaced (+thread)

🚨SPECIAL🎙️EPISODE: In this NüVoices Special episode, host and board member @sophiayan.bsky.social talks to Amanda Hsiao, director in Eurasia Group’s China practice, to look back on the first five months of Trump 2.0, and what we can learn from US-China relations: nuvoices.com/2025/06/25/n...

ICYMI View from #Beirut where many feel avenged by #Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel, which has invaded #Lebanon 3x + attacked countless times (Am filing faster than I can post so please follow @telegraphnews.bsky.social for more) www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

#Hezbollah supporters believe the militant group is ready to join the #war against #Israel once #Iran gives the order Even w less firepower + men, Hezbollah can still distract/tire out Israeli military Dispatch from Dahieh, a Hezb stronghold www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Why #Xi + #Putin - #Iran’s strongest strategic partners - are panicking right now 🤯🤬🤢 Analysis @telegraphnews.bsky.social Insights 🙏 @geringtuvia.bsky.social @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Gone are the sprawling #refugee tent camps. Frontex touted a 78% drop in irregular #border crossings for 2024 on the Western Balkan route But human #smuggling is still in force — it’s just moved underground & therefore not reflected in the data www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... #migration

#Chinese technology pioneered in East Turkistan (aka #Xinjiang) against the #Uyghurs… rolls out to #Turkey

2/ Nearly 2,000 mostly young people were detained during the March protests against the arrest of #Istanbul's mayor, #Imamoglu. 819 are facing charges in 20 investigations - many arrested in dawn raids, held for weeks without trial. Often, their “crime” was just being present.

4/ A Chinese-made Hikvision camera was spotted at a major Istanbul rally. It matches a model listed in a Turkish interior ministry document - capable of detecting 120 faces simultaneously.

5/ In late 2024, Turkey's police bought 3,500 facial recognition cameras and 278 servers. In 2025, more contracts and tenders followed - including one for 13,000 new cameras, published just a day before the mayor’s arrest.

Interesting

Police watchdog blasts UK authorities for being too laser-focused on small boat crossings, leading to "missed opportunities" to respond to other routes that migrants are using as guided by #smugglers - ie via trucks, visa fraud www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Thank you to @sophiayan.bsky.social for featuring our newly released Criminalisation report for 2024 in this piece for @telegraphnews.bsky.social Read Sophia's report here: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... bsky.app/profile/bord...

We went undercover & filmed covertly @telegraphnews.bsky.social to unveil how human #smugglers exploit legitimate networks to move illicit proceeds around the world - incl through the UK 💸🌎 My latest on a long-term investigation that spans Kabul to Birmingham www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Enjoyed reading the same essay:

#Chinese firms openly selling “inflatable boats for #refugees” online & advertising them to smugglers. Over 3 mos @telegraphnews.bsky.social tracked English-language ads posted online by seven suppliers hawking “refugee boats." None taken down during that period www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

🆕 New UHRP research on dramatic 📈 increase in int'l hotels chains in the Uyghur region—by @peterirwin.bsky.social, @henrykszad.bsky.social, and Ben Carrdus. Major 🏨 chains all operating amidst atrocities. 📊 uhrp.org/report/it-does-matter-where-you-stay-international-hotel-chains-in-east-turkistan

British chain IHG, which owns #InterContinental, Holiday Inn & other brands, is accused of violating sanctions by building hotels in #China’s Xinjiang where MPs hv said genocide is occurring against Muslim groups, incl #Uyghurs. cc @uyghurproject.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Hello, #Friday! A thread on this week's stories from yours truly.... Meet the #Syrians who remain determined to seek refuge in the #UK, in #Europe, even though #asylum claims have been frozen after the #Assad regime fell in December www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

'#Death boat' to #Europe... Only 11 migrants survived out of 80 after smugglers beat & killed them w hammers over an inter-gang payment dispute Exclusive feature w esteemed colleague Mohammad Zubair Khan in Islamabad for @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Latest with @sophiayan.bsky.social: 48 Uyghurs detained in Thailand for nearly 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to China, where they face imprisonment or execution. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/10900fe...

Explosive report from @sophiayan.bsky.social on China using shell companies to send $1B in drones to Libya, skirting a UN arms embargo for discounted oil. Makes you wonder what other providers of sanctioned crude, like Iran and Russia, receive in kind from China.

#China planned to send armed #drones worth $1 billion to #Libyan warlord using a UK-based shell company to skirt an international #weapons ban — under the guise of sending #coronavirus aid @telegraphnews.bsky.social can reveal One last scoop for 2024… Read on: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Smuggler in #France’s #Calais offering ‘special #Xmas deals’ to get migrants across English channel “God willing, you will be in #England before the new year” says #smuggler who calls himself Salar to @telegraphnews.bsky.social reporter posing as #migrant www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

What impact has @UN involvement + attention had on the #Uyghur #humanrights issue? We explore this in the latest issue of the Int’l Bar Assn’s Global Insight magazine #china #asia www.ibanet.org/Xinjiang-und...

~6,500 #Syrian asylum seekers stranded in #UK after govt froze apps after Assad fall. Delays cost govt $$ to accom people etc. Experts warning #Syria poss not safe even 1yr from now &many apps ultimately approved anyway More @eirnolsoe.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

#Russia appears to be reinforcing its bases in #Libya as it faces uncertain future in #Syria, its other foothold in Mediterranean At least 3 RUS military cargo IL-76s flew #Belarus-Libya since Dec 8 when RUS-allied #Assad regime in Syria toppled by rebels - FlightRadar24 data

Interesting pt below about #Syrian army that also poss applies to #Chinese army. #China's military is world's largest at 2m strong but will troops charge that hill when push comes to shove? Experts hv said before perhaps even #Xi doesn't know the answer to that www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

#Uyghur fighters in #Syria vow to come for #China, to 'liberate their homeland of #EastTurkistan from Chinese occupiers' #Turkistan Islamic Party was part of the rebel coalition that took down Assad A look at the small militant group giving Beijing nightmares www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Your weekend listen open.spotify.com/episode/2hp1...

To millions he was the 'Butcher of #Aleppo' To the #Alawites he was a protector – of the #Shia minority sect to which the #Assad clan belongs How they're treated now is a litmus test on whether the new regime will mean more bloodshed www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Latest #Syria updates from yours truly here 🎧🎧🎧 monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Very poignant @telegraphnews.bsky.social essay from Abdulrahman Bdiwi, a #Syrian who fled to the UK 10 yrs ago www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Read the full story here ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/iran-war-themselves/

🇮🇷 A furious blame game is unfolding among Iran’s armed forces over the fall of Bashar al-Assad, The Telegraph has learned. "The atmosphere is like something between almost punching each other, punching the walls, yelling at each other and kicking rubbish bins. No one is taking responsibility."

‎⁦‪#Syrian‬⁩ migrants queuing early this morning at the ⁦‪#Turkey‬⁩-⁦‪#Syria‬⁩ border, hoping to return ⁦‪#home‬⁩ for the first time in years. Syrian kids born in exile in Turkey may finally see their homeland. This is the Cilvegözü crossing point‬⁩

🇸🇾 Syrians in the Druze neighbourhood of Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus have been filmed tearing down a giant bust of former Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, who is the father of current leader Bashar al-Assad.

🗣 "We can’t believe it. We can all go back now." Syrian refugees and activists have gathered in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s tyrannical regime

🔴 Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Damascus, fled to Moscow and was granted asylum on “humanitarian grounds” after rebels took control of the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive

Battlelines: James Rothwell the Swedish gang war fought with child assassins: @sophiayan.bsky.social uncovers Russia's shiny new runways in the Libyan desert. ; www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

Iran basically just offering Assad thoughts and prayers here. The regime would need a lot more help than missiles and drones, and unclear how Iran even plans to get those to Damascus while it's losing land routes into Syria english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...

#Russia quickly expanding its footprint in #Libya, the core for wider #Africa ops @telegraphnews.bsky.social sat image analysis of 3 Libyan bases found Russian military planes IL-76s, upgraded runways, bolstered perimeter defences – changes from just this yr www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Khorgos, flagship #China-#Kazakhstan Belt & Rd project, has allowed China to reach across the border, kidnapping & chasing after Kazakhs, throwing them in prison. Chinese Kazakhs working in Khorgos also thrown in 're-education' camps #humanrights 👀our doc www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhN...

The Telegraph is hiring for a senior reporter in DC! Come work on my team! We're a band of misfits (like the rest of industry) but promise we'll make you laugh 😊 https://careers.telegraph.co.uk/jobs/job-details/Senior-US-Reporter-Washington

China cannot be trusted to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine when it is threatening to invade Taiwan, Taipei’s foreign minister Joseph Wu has warned in an intv w the Telegraph “This kind of double standard committed by the Chinese will make China unreliable as a peace negotiator…in Ukraine.”