HYI panel on HK www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI33...

Hong Kong’s Warning Signs for America
A graphic novel plays out a nightmarish scenario of authoritarianism in the hopes of waking us up. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/h...

Political Scientists: See petition drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2... and sign docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My student Eamon
"I’m Eamon Passey, a student at Notre Dame researching linguistic dynamics in Hong Kong, focusing on Cantonese & Mandarin. I’m seeking interviews with people from HK or with relevant experience to discuss language use & shifts. DM me or email epassey@nd.edu if interested!"

Sigh...

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

Review of Clifford’s book on jimmy lai

muse.jhu.edu/article/947895

May the last sunset of the world take away all the bad things of 2024

#China’s United Front influence and outreach operations are recruiting children and young adults in democratic Taiwan for heavily subsidized tours to the northwestern region of Xinjiang, in a bid to distract them from widespread human rights abuses in the region. www.rfa.org/english/chin...

What does oligarchy mean? Historian and author Timothy Snyder explores the meaning of oligarchy, where it came from, how it endangers us — and how it connects the United States and Russia. Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University.

youtu.be/biZVrh821RA?...

The wave of Chinese emigrants in the Xi Jinping era -- increasingly well-educated, accomplished and affluent -- are finding their voice abroad. This is a brilliant article by Liu Yi at @thewirechina.bsky.social
www.thewirechina.com/2024/12/22/f...

while being very uneasy about the rebels, I wish you were here to see today: remembering Ph.D. Student Jude Ash kroc.nd.edu/.../remember...
to get background on syria, watch Return to Homs weta.org/watch/shows/...

📍Is Israel losing its last democratic safeguard?⚠

"Israeli populist politicians have for years been undermining democratic guardrails. Now societal mobilization is under severe strain as well."

www.journalofdemocra...

What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship?
snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of this year -

cup.org/3Vo2Ph1

With papers by @moritz-graefrath.com, @janinadill.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @drjohnnygilmore.bsky.social, @victoriahui.bsky.social & more

New: European Parliament resolution calling for an end to Hong Kong's special trading status passes by a landslid

473 votes for
23 against
98 abstentions

Resolution also ask the EU to review the city's economic office in Brussels

On Tuesday, a Hong Kong court sentenced 45 prominent prodemocracy activists to years in prison in the biggest crackdown yet.

These Journal of Democracy essays detail Hong Kong’s decades-long fight for freedom, and the CCP’s unrelenting repression.

www.journalofdemocra...

📖 To celebrate the migration to Bluesky I will put everyone who reposts this before Dec 2nd into a random drawing & send the winner a free paperback copy of my 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship anywhere they happen to be in the world. 📖

NPR is hiring! For a tech reporter job based out of San Francisco but which can be remote.

I'd love to see someone with a China background get this.

job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...