Edward Lawrence
@edwardlawrence.bsky.social
Freelance producer and camera operator-editor in news and docs. Formerly with the BBC for over 5 years in Shanghai and Beijing - with stints in Taipei too. Now London-based and covering global stories.
Six years ago, heading into locked-down Hubei province with @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social as the coronavirus became very serious.
We were then promptly kicked out...
#throwback #china #covid19
We were then promptly kicked out...
#throwback #china #covid19
January 25, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Six years ago, heading into locked-down Hubei province with @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social as the coronavirus became very serious.
We were then promptly kicked out...
#throwback #china #covid19
We were then promptly kicked out...
#throwback #china #covid19
#throwback China, January 2020. Panic and worry as a mystery respiratory virus began to spread from Wuhan…
January 19, 2026 at 11:25 AM
#throwback China, January 2020. Panic and worry as a mystery respiratory virus began to spread from Wuhan…
5 years ago on China’s northernmost border with Russia - “Your body is in the northernmost part of China but your heart is towards the Central Party Committee.”
(Behind the trees is Russia)
#china #heilongjiang #beijicun #propaganda
(Behind the trees is Russia)
#china #heilongjiang #beijicun #propaganda
January 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
5 years ago on China’s northernmost border with Russia - “Your body is in the northernmost part of China but your heart is towards the Central Party Committee.”
(Behind the trees is Russia)
#china #heilongjiang #beijicun #propaganda
(Behind the trees is Russia)
#china #heilongjiang #beijicun #propaganda
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Washington seeks improved access to strategic chip industry of island nation, over which China claims sovereignty.
Taiwan and US seal deal to lower tariffs, boost chip investment
Washington seeks improved access to strategic chip industry of island nation, over which China claims sovereignty.
www.aljazeera.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Washington seeks improved access to strategic chip industry of island nation, over which China claims sovereignty.
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The Romanesque Revival St Joseph’s Church (1904), Wangfujing, Beijing. The perspective has benefitted from some landscaping, & it’s now a sci-fi pilgramge spot after featuring in Cixin Liu's The 3 Body Problem, where the 3 vaults mirror the nature of the physics conundrum at the heart of the novel….
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The Romanesque Revival St Joseph’s Church (1904), Wangfujing, Beijing. The perspective has benefitted from some landscaping, & it’s now a sci-fi pilgramge spot after featuring in Cixin Liu's The 3 Body Problem, where the 3 vaults mirror the nature of the physics conundrum at the heart of the novel….
Spotted in London!!!!
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Spotted in London!!!!
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Always love logging into Student Finance to find my student loan debt has risen by thousands yet again despite regular payments.
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Always love logging into Student Finance to find my student loan debt has risen by thousands yet again despite regular payments.
Took 5 months for Italian rail operator Trentitalia to refund £70 for a train cancelled due their staff being on strike. It took several emails, and even a phone call to Italy. It's since taken 4 months to pay. Mad.
October 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Took 5 months for Italian rail operator Trentitalia to refund £70 for a train cancelled due their staff being on strike. It took several emails, and even a phone call to Italy. It's since taken 4 months to pay. Mad.
Extraordinary
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Extraordinary
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In National Day address, Xi Jinping warns against Taiwan independence and ‘external interference’ – SCMP: ‘While he used similar language about Taiwan in his National Day speech last year, Xi did not single out external forces then.’
Xi renews warning against Taiwan independence in National Day address
Xi Jinping pledges to ‘practice true multilateralism’ and urges protection of national sovereignty.
www.scmp.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In National Day address, Xi Jinping warns against Taiwan independence and ‘external interference’ – SCMP: ‘While he used similar language about Taiwan in his National Day speech last year, Xi did not single out external forces then.’
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One man opened a series of cinemas in abandoned London buildings (from Catford to Ealing, from Sidcup to Sutton) as part of a plan to revive the capital’s high streets. Politicians love the idea and provided millions to help. So why do they keep going bust? www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...
The man who can't stop opening disastrous London cinemas
Preston Benson received millions of pounds in public funds to help revive London's high streets with a chain of cinemas stretching from Ealing to Catford, and Sidcup to Sutton. What keeps going wrong?
www.londoncentric.media
September 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
One man opened a series of cinemas in abandoned London buildings (from Catford to Ealing, from Sidcup to Sutton) as part of a plan to revive the capital’s high streets. Politicians love the idea and provided millions to help. So why do they keep going bust? www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...
We witnessed Israeli police aggressively break up a small and peaceful protest against the war in Gaza with one man being dragged out of his car, strangled and arrested for simply beeping his horn in support. From 1.37 @channel4news.bsky.social #Israel #Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1p...
'Go to Gaza!' - harsh Israeli crack down on anti-war protest
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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September 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We witnessed Israeli police aggressively break up a small and peaceful protest against the war in Gaza with one man being dragged out of his car, strangled and arrested for simply beeping his horn in support. From 1.37 @channel4news.bsky.social #Israel #Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1p...
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Peaceful demonstration in Arab town northern Israel broken up violently by police, who even drag a man out of a car for honking support and assault him.
'As soon as you start saying anything, the police come in very hard.' Secunder Kermani who is himself subject to aggression #c4news
'As soon as you start saying anything, the police come in very hard.' Secunder Kermani who is himself subject to aggression #c4news
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Peaceful demonstration in Arab town northern Israel broken up violently by police, who even drag a man out of a car for honking support and assault him.
'As soon as you start saying anything, the police come in very hard.' Secunder Kermani who is himself subject to aggression #c4news
'As soon as you start saying anything, the police come in very hard.' Secunder Kermani who is himself subject to aggression #c4news
As the UK and other nations recognise a Palestinian state, we’ve again travelled across the occupied West Bank to explore what recognition might mean to the Palestinians living there as settlements expand at an unprecedented rate. #Israel #Palestine
From 8mins 30.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjt1...
From 8mins 30.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjt1...
Israel ramps up Gaza offensive - as France set to recognise Palestinian state
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As the UK and other nations recognise a Palestinian state, we’ve again travelled across the occupied West Bank to explore what recognition might mean to the Palestinians living there as settlements expand at an unprecedented rate. #Israel #Palestine
From 8mins 30.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjt1...
From 8mins 30.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjt1...
Just finished a very intense three week stint in Israel and the occupied West Bank with the brilliant Channel 4 News team. Now back to London… #c4news
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just finished a very intense three week stint in Israel and the occupied West Bank with the brilliant Channel 4 News team. Now back to London… #c4news
Our @channel4news.bsky.social piece tonight on the killing of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and filmmaker who was shot dead by an extremist Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C7... #Israel #WestBank
Israeli settlers encroach on West Bank village again one month after killing
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our @channel4news.bsky.social piece tonight on the killing of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and filmmaker who was shot dead by an extremist Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C7... #Israel #WestBank
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I was hoping that the Greenland madness had abated. A key unanswered question in this piece is who is behind these operations. Are they seld-initiated? Did Trump recruit amateurs to do this a la FDR? Is this a CIA endeavor?
Denmark summons US envoy over report on covert American ‘influence operations’ in Greenland | CNN
The US envoy to Denmark was summoned by the Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday, after the country’s public broadcaster reported that a number of American men have attempted to conduct “influence ope...
www.cnn.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I was hoping that the Greenland madness had abated. A key unanswered question in this piece is who is behind these operations. Are they seld-initiated? Did Trump recruit amateurs to do this a la FDR? Is this a CIA endeavor?
Annnd more of our work from last week on the day that Israel announced the approval of a controversial new settlement that would cut right through the middle of the West Bank. Activists and far-right ministers have both said it will mean the end of a Palestinian state… #israel #westbank
Explained: How Israel is enacting a decades-long plan that would ‘bury’ the idea of a Palestinian state.
We went to the West Bank to see it for ourselves.
www.channel4.com/news/israeli...
We went to the West Bank to see it for ourselves.
www.channel4.com/news/israeli...
Israeli plan that could end the two state solution explained
Israel's government also gave approval to a major settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the Palestinian territory in two.
www.channel4.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Also few seconds before @c4ciaran.bsky.social was due to begin presenting, an air-raid alarm and an alarm of an incoming strike from Houthis in Yemen, according to the IDF. Iron dome launch and thuds in the background handled brilliantly by Ciaran.
Fair play @c4ciaran.bsky.social, Iron Dome in action behind you and you’re sticking to the schedule!
#c4news
#c4news
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Also few seconds before @c4ciaran.bsky.social was due to begin presenting, an air-raid alarm and an alarm of an incoming strike from Houthis in Yemen, according to the IDF. Iron dome launch and thuds in the background handled brilliantly by Ciaran.
From us last week.
Been a bit busy so a bit late to post…
Been a bit busy so a bit late to post…
"If they stay in an area that is in an intense war zone, of course they're endangering themselves."
@c4ciaran.bsky.social asks retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi what Israel will do if Gazans refuse to move.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/picture...
@c4ciaran.bsky.social asks retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi what Israel will do if Gazans refuse to move.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/picture...
Pictures of starving Gaza children are ‘fake’, claims former Israeli general
We spoke to retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi.
www.channel4.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
From us last week.
Been a bit busy so a bit late to post…
Been a bit busy so a bit late to post…
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Thousands protest across Israel demanding ceasefire and hostage deal
www.channel4.com/news/thousan...
www.channel4.com/news/thousan...
Thousands protest across Israel demanding ceasefire and hostage deal
Thousands of protestors have taken to the streets in Israel - blocking highways and marching on the Prime Minister's Office to demand a ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of all the remaining host...
www.channel4.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thousands protest across Israel demanding ceasefire and hostage deal
www.channel4.com/news/thousan...
www.channel4.com/news/thousan...
Presenting channel 4 news from Tel Aviv last night.
August 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Presenting channel 4 news from Tel Aviv last night.