HYI panel on HK www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI33...

Hong Kong’s Warning Signs for America A graphic novel plays out a nightmarish scenario of authoritarianism in the hopes of waking us up. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/h...

Political Scientists: See petition drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2... and sign docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My student Eamon "I’m Eamon Passey, a student at Notre Dame researching linguistic dynamics in Hong Kong, focusing on Cantonese & Mandarin. I’m seeking interviews with people from HK or with relevant experience to discuss language use & shifts. DM me or email [email protected] if interested!"

Sigh...

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

Review of Clifford’s book on jimmy lai muse.jhu.edu/article/947895

May the last sunset of the world take away all the bad things of 2024

#China’s United Front influence and outreach operations are recruiting children and young adults in democratic Taiwan for heavily subsidized tours to the northwestern region of Xinjiang, in a bid to distract them from widespread human rights abuses in the region. www.rfa.org/english/chin...

What does oligarchy mean? Historian and author Timothy Snyder explores the meaning of oligarchy, where it came from, how it endangers us — and how it connects the United States and Russia. Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University. youtu.be/biZVrh821RA?...

The wave of Chinese emigrants in the Xi Jinping era -- increasingly well-educated, accomplished and affluent -- are finding their voice abroad. This is a brilliant article by Liu Yi at @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2024/12/22/f...

while being very uneasy about the rebels, I wish you were here to see today: remembering Ph.D. Student Jude Ash kroc.nd.edu/.../remember... to get background on syria, watch Return to Homs weta.org/watch/shows/...

📍Is Israel losing its last democratic safeguard?⚠ "Israeli populist politicians have for years been undermining democratic guardrails. Now societal mobilization is under severe strain as well." www.journalofdemocra...

What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship? snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of this year - cup.org/3Vo2Ph1 With papers by @moritz-graefrath.com, @janinadill.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @drjohnnygilmore.bsky.social, @victoriahui.bsky.social & more

New: European Parliament resolution calling for an end to Hong Kong's special trading status passes by a landslid 473 votes for 23 against 98 abstentions Resolution also ask the EU to review the city's economic office in Brussels

On Tuesday, a Hong Kong court sentenced 45 prominent prodemocracy activists to years in prison in the biggest crackdown yet. These Journal of Democracy essays detail Hong Kong’s decades-long fight for freedom, and the CCP’s unrelenting repression. www.journalofdemocra...

📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖

NPR is hiring! For a tech reporter job based out of San Francisco but which can be remote. I'd love to see someone with a China background get this. job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...