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An ultra-detailed, hallmark Mike Forsythe 傅才德 🧵expanding on the stellar investigation he did with the amazing Katrina Northrop Eliot Chen, published by The New York Times and The Wire China . Is it also a debut of the WireScreen tool David Barboza created?

Great great news: JF Books, a famous bookstore shut in Shanghai in 2017, is going to open soon in Washington DC’s DuPont Circle, selling Chinese language books.📚

摆在这里的不是鲜花，而是对民族主义说不

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季风书店被关闭的前几天，上海的思想警察再次找于淼谈话。当于淼问他们，为什么要关闭这样一家书店时，其中一个看起来颇有“水平”的警察回答：你可以把这一切想象成是小说《1984》中的一个场景。 wainao.me/wainao-reads/j…

The Panda Factory: How Chinese authorities and American zoos have put a rosy sheen on a problematic panda conservation program. Can only imagine how dedicated Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong were to this great investigation. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

China’s Once-Unwanted Daughters Have Grown Up—and Now They Shun Motherhood. Cast aside in favor of sons, some women say trauma of one-child policy shattered their sense of family. Powerful and insightful piece by Shen Lu wsj.com/world/china/ch… wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Another person with one of the longest jail terms wasn’t a main organizer of the thing they’re being charged for. Gwyneth Ho is the journalist who recorded state-aligned armed mobs beating up civilians in Yuen Long for an hour after shaking hands with the police who stood by.

What the opposition viewed as a political maneuver authorized by Hong Kong’s constitution, China’s Communist Party leadership saw as a criminal scheme to subvert the government. Austin Ramzy

Former journalist Gwyneth Ho's statement included an impassioned plea to Hong Kongers: "Restore faith in democratic values through action". Ho also called it "comical" for authorities to cast their informal poll as subversion. sg.news.yahoo.com/despondency-de…

China court sentences journalist Dong Yuyu to 7 years on spy charges, family says reut.rs/49bkrCd

董郁玉被判7年！

#编程随想 #阮晓寰 二审。 今天下午14:00，上海高院开庭宣判。审判长周欣，审判员：凌莉、须梅华。宣读了几段话，14:07左右就结束了，维持原判。 上海司法的一个浓臭脏印。 我们会继续申诉。 任何时代、任何情况，都不能让自己失去希望！ 出庭时阮晓寰精神状况很好。二审后家属就可以会见了……

在中国，“新闻已死”，最专业的媒体被称为“谣媒”，记者经常被骂“吃人血馒头”；在美国，川普说主流媒体是“Fake News”，社交媒体上各种不实消息大肆传播。在这个后真相的时代，为什么还需要新闻媒体？资深记者李思磐与范文欣分享了他们的看法：youtu.be/vGmIyfpOaKs Li Yuan袁莉

Must-read feature that would have shined in any news magazine, by Viola Zhou who braved the Michigan snowstorm to bring us a documentary movie-style story of a Chinese EV business in America! restofworld.org/2025/gotion-ev…

++++ Exclusive: Not only are Trump‘s top security advisors discussing attack plans on Yemen on Signal - their mobile numbers, E-Mail and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publickly available leaks. Our ⁦DER SPIEGEL⁩ Investigation (1/ spiegel.de/international/…

Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing (months after I first tried to contact her for another story). npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s…

Great piece on Fu Guoyong's legacy, which lies in the other China not defined by trade war, autocracy or tech innovation; and is anything but utopian.