Sarah Cook
sarahgcook.bsky.social
Sarah Cook
@sarahgcook.bsky.social
Independent researcher & consultant; author of UnderReported China newsletter; fmr Freedom House China research director, views my own; underreportedchina.substack.com
Many Chinese were separated from their loved ones this Mid-Autumn Festival, but there are also good news stories. Ms. Liu Pintong, a Falun Gong believer, escaped China after surviving a prison in Liaoning. She's now in the UK, reunited with her son.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Li Yanhe grew up in China but moved to Taiwan in 2009, where he started Gusa Press, publishing Chinese books and translations, incl. ones critical of the CCP. He returned home to see family. On March 26, he was sentenced to 3 yrs in prison. Details: underreportedchina.substack.com/p/how-shutti...
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This month Safeguard Defenders (SD) published a report with a staggering finding: over one million Chinese have sought asylum abroad since Xi Jinping took over the CCP in 2012.

More details on this and other new research via UnderReported China underreportedchina.substack.com/p/whats-next...
January 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As the holiday season arrives (and Lunar New Year in early 2025) there is one more Chinese journalist who will still be separated from his family - Dong Yuyu, sentenced in November to 7 years in prison for meeting with Japanese diplomats. Details here:
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December 15, 2024 at 2:27 PM
A recent report does a deep dive into Chinese Communist Party influence and interference targeting media in the Netherlands. The researchers insights on the psychological dimensions are especially interesting.

Details here: underreportedchina.substack.com/p/advice-to-...
December 10, 2024 at 3:46 PM