RIP!! A legend ❤️ www.wsj.com/world/china/...

”Europe’s most wanted man, it is highly likely, is now a Russian combatant in Europe’s largest land war since World War II.” Incredible investigation using Russia’s own surveillance cameras and records into Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek and a terrible hair transplant surgery: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

The uplift I needed today How a grandmother helped her granddaughter to find her voice www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Kirk was killed Wednesday while speaking at a campus event in Utah. There is no suspect in custody.

“Japan is stable. It has rational politics. It has no Chinese nationalists…Everyone has a third term for Trump or a fourth term for Xi in their mind, and they don’t like it.” on.ft.com/3JO8WYW

During Beijing’s, China WWII parade, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on a hot mic discussing longevity. Putin said organ transplants may lead to immortality, while Xi mused, "Some predict humans may live to 150 this century." Kim Jong Un smiled nearby. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Its webs, meanwhile, are woven by machines that are owned by corporations.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“The Taliban forcibly took over our joint venture oil fields and unreasonably drove our Chinese personnel out of the oil field at gunpoint.” www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

"We allowed our No. 1 ally, on our watch, to violate every single principle and pillar of humanitarian assistance and civilian protection that we created for the world," the official said. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

Don't miss the latest installment of Far-flung postcards by the one and only @emilyzfeng.bsky.social who had the fortune of visiting this Christian archaeological site in the Negev www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...

With local public media stations on the brink of collapse followingTrump’s successful push to strip federal funding, the Public Media Bridge Fund hopes to raise $100 million over the next two years to keep local newsrooms alive.

"NPR spoke to six reservists and soldiers, including Finer, who had refused service this year. Some expressed moral qualms; others questioned the strategic value of continuing to fight in Gaza." www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...

"...it was so clear for me. They don't want this war to end anytime before they conquer the whole Gaza Strip. Another day we suspend it is another day Israeli soldiers could die." www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...

Incredible sound from one of the deadliest sites where Palestinians have been trying to get food, in north Gaza. www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

Awdah Al Hathaleen was shot during a clash with an Israeli settler. His West Bank village hoped No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about settler violence that he worked on, might help protect them.

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.

Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

Wow thank you!!

Palestinian activist who helped make Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land' killed in the West Bank - audio from the mourning tent for Awdeh Hathaleen one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5489...

Israel says it’s letting in more food to Gaza. People in Gaza say they’re not getting it - and they’re still being killed by Israeli gunfire when trying to get food. What’s happening? www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

A few days ago I had the privilege of reporting in the misty Golan Heights to report on the dynamics between the majority Druze there, the Druze in Syria, and the new government in Syria as deadly sectarian violence exploded in July. www.npr.org/2025/07/31/g...

“The state used to want flowers of many colours to bloom, but now they want to let only one red flower bloom.” On “Drum Tower”, Emily Feng and Jiehao Chen explore what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping’s China

Very powerful. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I talk about my book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, reporting on China, and Chinese politics on the latest episode the great @economist.com podcast, Drum Tower. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

The story behind the pictures that have haunted the entire world - how chronic hunger in Gaza is destroying tiny bodies, including that of 18 month old Mohammad. Listen/read. www.npr.org/2025/07/27/g...

“…The layoffs were announced while Rubio was traveling home from that trip. "After he used us, he fired us," one fired foreign affairs officer who focused on the South China Sea said. "It's mind-boggling." www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...

The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated. @propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador. Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Incredible eyewitness tape from @npr.org Anas Baba from Gaza on how Palestinians died after the Israeli military said it fired “warning shots” at them over the weekend one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5474...

New: A dive into how China developed such a chokehold on rare earths. I found that, perhaps counterintuitively, it was a industry dominated by smuggling and fractionalized, private interests for decades. But Beijing recognized early on the power of consolidating. www.npr.org/2025/07/17/1...

"China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?" www.npr.org/2025/07/15/n... @emilyzfeng.bsky.social

How is climate changing affecting the world’s most prized tea terroirs? @npr.org visited the idyllic hills of Fujian recently, replete with chirping crickets, to find out www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Honored to be in this great Chinese-language newsletter featuring the first Chinese language podcast I’ve done on my book tianjiancmp.substack.com/p/20250708?u...

In the Netherlands!

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement. By @emilyzfeng.bsky.social

"In practice, online censorship in China functions more like a massive water management system: an amalgamation of canals and locks that regulates what flows, through which particular channels, and at what times." locknet.chinafile.com/the-locknet/...

The CBS Eye blinked. Disney's Mouse didn't roar. The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have pulled their editorial punches. My analysis for NPR: CBS is the latest news giant to bend to Trump's power www.npr.org/2025/07/02/n...

When the spiritual business of reincarnation becomes a long-running political dispute in the material world www.npr.org/2025/07/02/n...

Missing Taiwan today www.npr.org/2025/07/02/g...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani discusses his vision for the city and his surprise win in last week's Democratic primary on @npr.org's Morning Edition.

Former rust belt cities in China see a different kind of rote work as the future: data processing for artificial intelligence training. Our look into these data centers- www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

I've been hearing about & seen still photos of the recently rediscovered Chinese typewriter created by Lin Yutang, so cool to see this video report by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social featuring @tsmullaney.bsky.social (who, literally, wrote the book on the Chinese Typewriter) www.youtube.com/shorts/oaIlb...

. @npr.org's Aowen Cao went to a "data processing" center in China's rust belt...data which is feeding the artificial intelligence boom, and over which companies and countries are competing and hoarding. www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

"In most other cases where “trans” was flagged, the term generally referred to other words with the trans- prefix, such as disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies or signal transduction." www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Yes, it’s another “just like in China moment.” But what does that mean? This piece from @mauracunningham.bsky.social on the closing off of China’s archives 10 years ago gives us a roadmap to where things could go from here