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Eli Meixler
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Hoping this place is better than the last one. @financialtimes.com Asia world news editor in 🇭🇰, bagel dogmatist. Usual business, DM’s open
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The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
🚨 Scoop Demetri Sevastopulo @financialtimes.com: China’s defence minister Admiral Dong Jun is under investigation in a corruption-related scandal, according to US officials — the third consecutive serving or former defence min ensnared for alleged corruption t.co/h3JWU0t9aq
https://on.ft.com/3Z26vWC
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November 27, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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🔔 first post alert! 🔔

🎙️Latest episode of Behind the Money is out from the @financialtimes.com

🎧: link.chtbl.com/ftbehind-the...
November 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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There are now over 100 Financial Times journalists from across the newspaper on this Bluesky starter pack. It would be rude not to follow them all, imo!

bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 24, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Apparently “patriots only” ruling HK wasn’t enough. No extra points for guessing the next stage
November 25, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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The EU has joined Bluesky
November 25, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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#BREAKING: Thai Const. Court REJECTS petition against ruling Pheu Thai Party and its patriarch Thaksin Shinawatra for alleged overthrowing of the constitutional monarchy. Claims incl. preferential imprisonment conditions and influencing the appointment of his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM.
November 22, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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#HongKong Prof. Benny Tai is sentenced to 10 years in jail for organizing a primary election for the pro-democracy camp. 44 opposition figures are sentenced from around 4 yrs to 8 yrs.
They simply did something very normal in democratic society. They should be free.
November 19, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/
November 11, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics.

UK Journos New, Podcasts
go.bsky.app/VB1hZZk
UK MPs
go.bsky.app/LrPkHJJ
FT Journalists
go.bsky.app/FuqnwdD
BBC journalists
go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD
Channel 4 News Journalists
go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW
Prospect journalists
go.bsky.app/Vk8j7vP
November 15, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Interesting move here by Jane Street, the New York trading powerhouse. It quietly bankrolled a Hong Kong start-up that has turned the revenues of China's noodle shops and karaoke bars into tradable financial securities

on.ft.com/48QSKhU
Jane Street invested in start-up turning China’s noodle shop sales into securities
Micro Connect has amassed wealth of real-time data on China’s economy by financing small businesses in exchange for revenues
www.ft.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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🚨 JOURNO JOB 🚨 The Guardian's China team is hiring a news assistant / researcher to be based in Taipei. Details below! English and Mandarin fluency essential. Applications close at the end of this month.
November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Yeah, I think that’s more than enough
November 15, 2024 at 6:23 AM
He takes it back. The posting is good again
November 15, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Top reason why the correct answer to the question “if you could live in any historical time period, which would you choose?” is always “this one”
Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:

Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
November 15, 2024 at 5:59 AM
“It’s despicable.”
Zuhai residents expressed outrage as Chinese authorities moved to suppress public displays of grief after a car attack this week killed 35 — part of a campaign of social control.
“It’s really frightening.”
William Langley & Joe Leahy for @financialtimes.com
on.ft.com/3O9VWf2
Zhuhai reels after China’s biggest mass killing in a decade
[FREE TO READ] Rare comments from Xi Jinping signal Beijing’s determination to maintain social control
on.ft.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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i’ll just leave this here
November 15, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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to counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add.
go.bsky.app/wtGV1Q
November 14, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Great story from colleagues about China preparing for defence and retaliation on trade to Trump. Love the juxtaposition of quote and institution here.

www.ft.com/content/b979...
November 14, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Extraordinary long read from my colleagues about Goldman’s misadventure in China on.ft.com/3YRvETV
Inside Goldman Sachs’ years-long power struggle over its China venture
[FREE TO READ] A deal with a prominent Chinese banker gave the US group market access, but securing full control cost a lot more than it expected
on.ft.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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For those that are arriving (me too), here is a great list of active FT journalists on this platfom

bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app
November 13, 2024 at 12:31 PM
#1,087,413 — I’ll take it!
September 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
It’s been 20 years — and just one sailboat crash — of @financialtimes.com Asia! Here’s to decades more papering the most exciting region in the world pink #FTAsia20
September 21, 2023 at 6:20 AM
Alright, here we go again.

Let’s start it off with a pup dubious we really need another place to post
September 21, 2023 at 5:40 AM