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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Nov 15

Reposting for the newbies here. (Paywalled but also you all should subscribe to @mekongreview.bsky.social)

Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m delighted that the first freelance article I’ve written in a little while was published by @mekongreview.bsky.social, a magazine I’ve long read and admired. mekongreview.com/memory-as-re... Thanks to @kixes.bsky.social!

Memory as resistance - Mekong Review

The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe and Under the Mulberry Tree: A Contemporary Uyghur Anthology are testament to the power of memory as resistance against crackdown and erasure.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 7d

"Here’s where Coates’ clarity comes in handy. You treat people humanely—everyone.

People can come in the tent without agreeing on every policy. But you have to make the demand that all people will be treated humanely. That belief guides what you yourself will do."

kottke.org @kottke.org · 8d

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

You don’t have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 12d

Strolling along Dongsi 8 Tiao hutong 东四八条 in Beijing this pm I saw this gate, with a little Buddha statue inside. Then I read the plaque. *Everything* happened in this house. (Manchus to Martial arts to Mara Hari).

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The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social · 13d

The Wire China is currently seeking applications for a staff writer.

Follow the link below to learn more about the position and how to apply.

Open Postions - The Wire China

The Wire China is Seeking Applications for a Staff Writer.

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 15d

As a proud East Bay resident I especially appreciate the punchline of this story about John Fairbank youtu.be/n5dNVEl2Wfw?...

Law, Life and Asia: Conversations with Jerome Alan Cohen (Part 1)

YouTube video by NYU School of Law

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 15d

Worth a watch to get a sense of the breadth and depth of his knowledge and experience - a rare, clear-eyed voice on China who has seen it all www.jeromecohen.net/video-memoirs

Video Memoirs — Jerome A. Cohen | 孔傑榮（柯恩）

In 1960, Jerome A. Cohen, a young law teacher at Berkeley who had clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices, accepted an offer to study a subject that was virtually unknown — the legal system of the...

www.jeromecohen.net

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 15d

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Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95

An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 15d

Not now, Hayward Fault.

Earthquake Live Alert @earthquake.skybot.party · 15d

New earthquake reported: M 3.0 - 3 km SE of Berkeley, CA - 2025-09-23T01:30:53.763Z

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Kristin Shi-Kupfer @gusiting.bsky.social · 16d

First #UNESCO International Institute for STEM #Education (IISTEM) established in Shanghai...hmm....#China's ambition for setting agendas, getting talents and recognition. No competing initiatives due to lack of money or low prioritization?
www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen...

联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所在上海成立_部门动态_中国政府网

教育部部长怀进鹏代表中国政府与联合国教科文组织总干事阿祖莱签署国际STEM教育研究所《所址协定》和《运行协定》。

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 21d

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got outta hand." youtu.be/vETxuL7Ij3Q?...

Follow the Money - All the President's Men (4/9) Movie CLIP (1976) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 22d

Read more about colonial boarding schools in my interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/08/inte...

Interview with Dr. Gyal Lo: Tibetan Children Are Becoming "Strangers in Their Own Homes"

In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chines...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 22d

"Pema Tashi, a Tibetan military instructor stationed at Kindergarten No. 5, said that the soldiers’ emphasis on ‘red’ education was 'taking root in young minds…like seeds sown quietly.'”

Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 23d

#China has launched a pilot program deploying #PLA soldiers in state-run boarding schools in Nagchu, #Tibet. The programme targets children as young as 4, with 13 veterans across 7 schools teaching military training + political education - our report: tibetwatch.org/china-deploy...

China Deploys Military Veterans at Schools in Tibet

China has launched a new pilot programme deploying Chinese military veterans in state-run boarding schools to indoctrinate Tibetan children as young as four with military training and political educat...

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 22d

This is where we are as a society I guess.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 27d

I spoke with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @chinafile.bsky.social's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.

China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 27d

Interview: Jessica Batke and Laura Edelson on China’s “Locknet”

"Just because there are gaps, that doesn't mean the system as a whole is not effective. The human psychological component to this is that for most people, most of the time, as long as it's inconvenient, that's enough."

Interview: Jessica Batke and Laura Edelson on China’s “Locknet”

In June, ChinaFile published a new report, "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters"—the product of 18 months’ work by Jessica Batke, ChinaFile’s senior editor for investigatio...

chinadigitaltimes.net

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 25d

This guy who was found abandoned on the side of the highway at 7 weeks old weighing 4 pounds has now outgrown one chair and needs to sleep on two.

Large brown and gray cat sleeps sprawled across two kitchen chairs

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Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social · 27d

University of Montreal seeks China specialist in political science. No French language skill is needed to be eligible, although you will need to learn with what a colleague who's there calls "their amazing support" once on the job.
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Carrières

Devenez professeure ou professeur au rang d’adjoint ou agrégé en politique ou en relations internationales de la Chine dans le monde contemporain

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 27d

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World
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BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
TRANSLATED BY CLARE CAVANAGH

Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 28d

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need."

Nancy Mace: *screams*

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 29d

This covers well the damage of what’s happening, and I’ll add: people outside this ecosystem underestimate how much information it produces that others rely on for their knowledge of world affairs

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 29d

"On August 29, the State Department leadership notified staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements...designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas..."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 29d

Where others overlook, we listen.
Where others erase, we translate.
Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29d

coverage from Nepal on @globalvoices.org

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James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com · 29d

As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...

Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology

Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 29d

And don’t climb on the roof or you may have a farfalle.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 29d

Just don’t lock yourself out because you’d have gnocchi

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Chinese for Affirmative Action @caasanfrancisco.bsky.social · Feb 12

What happens if ICE stops you on the streets? 如果美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 在街上接近您，您怎么做？

Help us share out our bilingual Chinese-English Know-Your-Rights infographics! Knowing your rights can make the difference between safety and deportation.

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By Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA): If ICE approaches you on the street, what do you do? 如果美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 在街上接近您，您怎么做？*The information provided is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. *所提供的信息仅供参考，不应被视为法律建议。

By Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA): If ICE approaches you on the street... 1. You have the right to refuse to give them your ID and name. 2. You can refuse to answer their questions. If they detain you, you can ask for an attorney. 3. You can ask “Am I arrested?” If the answer is no, you should ask him or her if you can leave. You do not need to give them any information regarding your legal status in the U.S. You are not required to provide any documents to them. *The information provided is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice.

By Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA): 如果美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 在街上接近您... 1. 您有权拒绝向他们提供您的身份证件和姓名。 2. 您可以拒绝回答他们的问题。如果他们拘留您，您可以要求律师。 3. 你可以问“我被捕了吗？”如果答案是否定的，您应该询问对方自己是否可以离开。您不需要向他们提供有关您在美国身份合法性的任何信息。您不需要向他们提供任何文件。*所提供的信息仅供参考，不应被视为法律建议。

Bay Area Immigration: 24 Hour Hotlines / 湾区移民紧急热线 (24 小时.) San Francisco 三藩市: 415-200-1548, Contra Costa County (康特拉科斯塔县) 925-900-5151, Alameda County 阿拉米达县: 510-241-4011, Santa Clara County, 圣克拉拉县: 408-290-1144, San Mateo County 圣马特奥县: 203-666-4472, Marin County 马林县: 415-991-4545, Santa Cruz County 圣克鲁斯县: 831-239-4289, Sonoma County 索诺玛县: 707-800-4544, Napa County 纳帕县: 707-800-4544

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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