Niharika Mandhana

@NASA I promised my 5 year old I’d get his letter to you.

Fast Chips, Big Money, 3:30 a.m. Calls: Taiwan’s Urgent Quest to Win Over Trump—The stakes couldn’t get any higher for Taipei as America’s leader takes a softer tack on China @NiharikaSM @joshchin @joyuwang wsj.com/world/asia/tai… wsj.com/world/asia/tai…

Across the Tibetan plateau, an ambitious Chinese military buildup is unfolding, with new, expanded airfields designed to extend Beijing’s reach across its harsh western frontier .. over the Himalayas wsj.com/world/china/ch…

America’s New Pacific Army Commander Lays Out His China Strategy—Gen. Ronald Clark says ‘extraordinary times’ demand agile ground forces, new missile systems and a different way of thinking @NiharikaSM @timothywmartin wsj.com/world/asia/ame… wsj.com/world/asia/ame…

China Is Waging a ‘Gray Zone’ Campaign to Cement Power. Here’s How It Looks. Years of ship-tracking data, flight paths and satellite images show a clear intensification of Beijing’s tactics across a swath of Asia @NiharikaSM wsj.com/world/china/ch… wsj.com/world/china/ch…

New display at the @WSJ newsroom

The Philippines is key to enacting U.S. operational concepts in a Taiwan contingency--even without assured access. I talked @NiharikaSM @WSJ about the importance of range in a warfight with China and what the Marines could do from the Philippines. wsj.com/world/asia/ame…

Four years ago the U.S. and its oldest ally in Asia were close to a breakup. Today, the U.S.-Philippines alliance is at its strongest in decades—credit a new leader in Manila and a China showdown in the South China Sea. @NiharikaSM wsj.com/world/asia/the… wsj.com/world/asia/the…

For a full year, our colleague Evan Gershkovich has been locked in a Russian prison for doing his job. A full year stolen from him. #FreeEvanGershkovich

“The scale [of China’s shipbuilding] is just almost hard to fathom,” said Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at [⁦@CNASdc⁩] whose research focuses on maritime competition.” wsj.com/world/china/ch…

👀A must-read by @NiharikaSM (@WSJ) to understand how 🇨🇳#China carries out its blockade of the 🇵🇭#Philippines' outpost at 2nd Thomas Shoal. A very helpful infographic description of the 21 Oct mission (which included 2 collisions).👇👇👇

A dispute between China and the Philippines, a U.S. ally, is rapidly escalating over an unusual military outpost: a World War-II era ship that is leaky, riddled with holes, covered in rust and sitting atop a reef in the South China Sea. @NiharikaSM wsj.com/world/asia/chi…

29 WEEKS. There's a lot going on in the world right now, but please remember that our @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained in a Russian prison since March. We need to get him home. #JournalismIsNotACrime #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan

It's been 27 weeks - 189 long days - of our brilliant @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich being locked up in a notorious Russian prison, simply for doing his job. Here in the London office, we are standing with him today and everyday. #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime

A senior executive at American risk advisory firm Kroll has been barred from leaving mainland China, the latest example of Chinese authorities imposing exit bans on the employees of foreign firms. A scoop from @RebeccaYFeng @ByChunHan wsj.com/world/china/ch…

It's so hard to fathom that it has now been 20 long weeks, a shocking 140 days since Evan was detained in Russia simply for doing his job. My colleague Evan Gershkovich is a brilliant journalist and journalism is not a crime. He should be released immediately. #IStandWithEvan

Evan is curious, exceptional, empathic, brave, dedicated, lovely, courageous, a superstar, gregarious, inspiring, talented, reliable, generous, funny, driven, passionate, crucial. Evan Gershkovich is an American journalist. It's time to bring him home. #IStandWithEvan

In Washington, London and here in Singapore, Evan Gershkovich’s colleagues and friends took turns reading his journalism out loud for 24 hours straight. Even one day is a long time. Evan’s been unjustly detained in Russia for 112 days. He should be released. #IStandWithEvan

This is leadership: Paul Beckett, WSJ Bureau Chief is back to read in the early morning shift in hour 22 of the Evan Gershkovich Readathon @PressClubDC