Reporter at @Reuters, covering markets and finance breaking news. Board member at @TaiwanFCC. Past work in @guardian @WSJ @business. Views my own etc.
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Today in “you can’t make this stuff up,” Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy
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After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home.
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I’ll be out of office for a while on maternity leave. Wherever I land, catch you on the other side
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After a long absence, How To Journalist is back!
I've changed the focus to look more at technology, as well as privacy and security issues for media.
Here's the first new posts, which focuses on why journalists should learn to use the command line.
howtojournalist.beehiiv.com/…
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The biggest glut of copper in four years has built up in Chinese warehouses, with one analyst saying the excess metal 'simply cannot be consumed'. Manufacturers are pulling back on buying after a price spike and tepid consumer demand on.ft.com/4cvtJtv
ALT Line chart of China copper price relative to global price ($ per tonne) showing copper in China has fallen to a discount due to tepid demand
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American shoppers at Amazon, Walmart, Etsy and grocery delivery apps Instacart and Uber Eats may have unwittingly bought canned tomatoes and pastes produced by Uyghur forced laborers in China’s Xinjiang region forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/…
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My 25 years at The Wall Street Journal ended yesterday, and it was a privilege to have served the last eight in the Washington bureau. I learned so much about how to do good journalism. My passion for news isn't dissipated, and I'm excited to get back to work.
NEW: Major layoffs at the Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau yesterday left the newsroom reeling. “This is like dropping a neutron bomb on the newsroom,” said one of the reporters affected. I got the names of most of the journalists who were laid off: politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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BREAKING: Taiwan opposition presidential candidates @houyuih and @KP_Taiwan have agreed to join forces to form a joint ticket in the Jan. 13 election.
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Some very sad news from The China Project. For me, this was more than a job: it was a calling. But don't worry. I still hear the calling. thechinaproject.com/2023/11/…
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A thread on the possible implications of the death of Li Keqiang.
The passing of a senior Chinese political figure can be a complicated and challenging moment for the leadership. Protests after the deaths of popular former deputies like Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang show why.
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Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China central committees and former premier, passed away on Friday in Shanghai xhtxs.cn/Nvu
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What can an unfree society teach you about freedom?
In 6+ years living in China as a journalist, I was informed on, spied on, tailed when traveling.
This is nothing compared to what Chinese go through if targeted.
Here are 14 lessons—and warnings—that many need to hear:
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Taiwan’s opposition KMT’s presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih outlines his China policy in a @ForeignAffairs piece today.
He identifies the need for “#3D”s in dealing with China:
- Defense,
- Dialogue, and
- De-escalation
Link: foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/ta…
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Beijing is unlikely to resume group tours to Taiwan until after the presidential election in January, an official said, referencing its combative response to a tentative reopening plan for Chinese tours announced last month
taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/…
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Wow. The Tory parliamentary researcher arrested on suspicion of spying for China is Chris Cash, the director the China Research Group co-founded by the security minister, Tom Tugendhat.
Full Times scoop 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/d6106…
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Last Friday, Ko Wen-Je lost his third defamation case against Ethan Gutmann, whose 2014 book, The Slaughter, told of Ko’s visits to China to teach transplant techniques that allegedly facilitated live organ harvesting from Uyghurs and Falun Gong adherents.
taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/…
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TFCC also hopes to sit down with president Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, with whom we had two fruitful briefings during her first term. We have yet to meet during her second term, which ends next May.
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TFCC thanks Taiwan vice president Lai Ching-te @ChingteLai for speaking with us this afternoon.
We look forward to meeting with other presidential candidates in the run-up to January's election. @TaiwanFCC
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Yevgeny Prigozhin's death has serious repercussions for Wagner's Africa network
Here is what might unfold /1
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Dmitry Utkin was believed to have been on the jet with Prigozhin
Utkin's death, if confirmed, is a seismic event
Some more details on Utkin /1
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The below-mentioned transfer of covert operations from Wagner to #Redut possesses relevance in the case of #Libya.
Redut — recently designated by the U.S. — is linked to the GRU as well as the broader Russian Ministry of Defense.
In that regard, Deputy MoD Yunus-bek Yevkurov’s 08/22 Benghazi visit ought to be seen as a major new impulse, a new beginning.
Russia’s footprint in eastern, central, & southern Libya isn’t about to shrink.
