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Earlier tonight, Hong Kong performance artist Sanmu Chen appeared to sign the words "8964" in the air—referring to the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown—before being surrounded and taken away by police. Sources tell AFP News Agency that Chen has been released.

A piece on Tiananmen drawn from my book “Assignment China” cnn.com/2024/06/03/chi… edition.cnn.com/2024/06/03/chi…

#2024June4 A senior resident showing two hand-written posters listing democracy movements in mainland China, HK and Taiwan alongside with a poem to commemorate June 4 was taken away by police although he folded his papers after police warned arrest over “disorderly conducts”.

Huang Xueqin, leading #MeToo journalist in China, has been sentenced to five years in prison on subversion charges, ⁦Nectar Gan⁩ reports cnn.com/2024/06/14/chi…

"Only pirates do this" Philippines accuses China of "brutal assault" with bladed weapons in latest confrontation over disputed territory in the South China Sea By Nectar Gan & Kathleen Magramo cnn.com/2024/06/20/asi…

When Katrina Northrop asked to profile me for The Wire China, I was bewildered but agreed as I'm a fan. Read her gorgeous piece, not for its central figure, but for the history of science vis-a-vis the state in China and US, and the many wiser souls quoted: thewirechina.com/2024/06/23/phy…

CNN's Senior Global Military Affairs Writer Brad Lendon CNN fulfills a childhood Top Gun dream, gets to play "Goose" riding in the back of a South Korean Air Force F-4 Phantom cnn.com/2024/06/22/opi…

Dramatic footage of suspected debris from a Chinese rocket appears to be from Xianqiao village in Guizhou, Nectar Gan Isaac Yee and Yong Xiong report

How ready is #China’s military after the downfall of two former defense ministers? CNN’s Nectar Gan explores in a nice piece, with quotes from RSIS’s James Char and myself amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/01…

谈及被捕的过程，郭艺很意外地发现，很多亲近的朋友都不知道究竟发生了什么，也有朋友不好意思问她，但她其实很愿意讲述，讲述是疗愈的一种方式。而面对曾经的报道争议，她说，她更倾向于公开，但也理解无法自由沟通的情况下，朋友们的两难。

Taiwan is making a TV show about a Chinese invasion. And it’s hitting close to home edition.cnn.com/2024/08/04/asi… w/ Nectar Gan

"It actually strikes me as a sign of weakness, if not paranoia, that [Xi] feels he needs to constantly overturn the apple cart” -- pleased to be quoted alongside James Char & Victor Shih in another great piece on the Miao Hua purge, thanks Nectar Gan edition.cnn.com/2024/12/15/chi…

Great Nectar Gan piece on Miao Hua and Dong Jun, and grateful that my book Coalitions of the Weak is mentioned edition.cnn.com/2024/12/15/chi…

Chen Pinlin, who made a documentary to commemorate China's "White Paper" protests against Covid lockdowns, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. cnn.com/2025/01/06/chi…

A new American factory story: I spent months tracking Chinese EV battery maker Gotion: a strongman boss, a son who worships Elon Musk, an embattled white executive, a group of Michigan hunters who call this EV revolution a scam. restofworld.org/2025/gotion-ev… via Rest of World

One of Asia’s most raucous sporting spectacles is moving to a shiny new high-tech home. Can its party spirit survive? With Nectar Gan 🏟️ (Hong Kong Sevens) edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/wor…

‘Invasion’ barges and deep-sea cable cutters: why new Chinese maritime tech is spooking defense watchers — and fueling concerns about their potential role in a future invasion of Taiwan. cnn.com/2025/03/25/chi… Nectar Gan Eric Cheung Yong Xiong John Mees

China quietly rolls back retaliatory tariffs on some US-made semiconductors, import agencies tell CNN cnn.it/3EGI371

Despite the 90-day truce in its trade war with the US, China appears to be maintaining tight control over its rare earth exports – preserving a key source of leverage for future talks. Here's a must-read "trade truce" reality check by Nectar Gan.