Timothy McLaughlin

Coming this fall, and available now for pre-order, a project that has been in the works since 2019. Among the Braves, with @ShibaniMahtani, the story of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the lives and city it has shaped. hachettebooks.com/titles/shibani…

Breaking News: The Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets violated the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled, in a victory for The New York Times. nyti.ms/4smNxY1

@ChrisCroy nytimes.com/2026/02/15/bus… amp.scmp.com/week-asia/peop…

@TMclaughlin3 @DKThomp can you recommend any pieces about Trump's unqualified ambassadors? I'm sure they're causing problems but I haven't seen anyone talking about it.

America’s foreign policy toward Southeast Asia under Trump has been: 1. Slap them with the some of the highest tariff rates in the world 2. Launch Section 301 investigations of their trade practices 3. Create a global energy and commodities crisis that singles them out for special pain bc of the region’s reliance on Strait of Hormuz The scenario below is dark, dark, dark … but we have basically waged slow-motion economic warfare against our allies in one of the most important regions in the world. (via @alexbhturnbull)

@PatrickHeizer Same exact thoughts just the other side of the world. Watching COVID ramping up and being told by people in the US it would "stay in Asia" like SARs. Today, watching fuel lines getting longer and longer and more drastic measures coming.

It's surreal how little the Iran War has seemed to matter to people in my real life. There could be a sudden ceasefire, of course, but I feel like I did in Feb 2020, when I was the one tracking case numbers and telling people to stockpile. Things don't always work out.

Stunning bit of engineering. PH, meanwhile, has held Thitu, an actual island, for decades and yet it remains covered with crumbling buildings and half finished projects.

A full decade and countless deaths after he was supposed to. Here is the 2016 WSJ scoop that he wasn’t going anywhere despite hitting the mandatory retirement age: wsj.com/articles/myanm…

Amos Yee charged in Singapore court over 2016 NS enlistment offences bit.ly/47MhpF5

The ironies of war

Arms for Peace: 506 PDF members enter legal fold and hand over weapons myanmaritv.com/news/arms-peac…

🇭🇰 | 19-Mar-2026 Whistleblower Jason Poon is among six arrested by HKPolice yesterday, on suspicion of fraud & deception over an application for a HK$6m loan under a GovHK SME covid assistance scheme in relation to his #Lockill covid face mask business. hk01.com/sns/article/60…

Victory for Afroman over the sheriff's deputies who sued him for defamation and invasion of privacy through false light. "In all circumstances, the jury finds in favor of the defendant. No plaintiff verdict prevailed. So the matter will be concluded with defense verdicts."

Article notes that ammonium sulfate is for now, unaffected. China exports vast amounts of fertilizer to Myanmar, some for agriculture but it is also a key ingredient in the leaching agent needed to extract rare earth elements from mines in the country.

Trump's SE Asia policy in one clip. Deportation and a globally destabilising war.

I recently wrote for @TheEconomist about Ken Paneboun, a refugee from Thailand who was deported to Laos by the Trump admin last year. He is living in Vientiane and documenting the search for gas in the capital as shortages hit because of the war in Iran. youtube.com/shorts/XM5bFjN…

MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

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the lines for gas are insane rn in Lao PDR some of my friends have been waiting in line for hours to fill up their motorbikes and haven’t been able to fill up

"By targeting an independent journalist and an award-winning investigative organisation, the Chinese regime is demonstrating its determination to silence reporting that exposes Beijing’s disinformation efforts in the Philippines." Salamat, @RSF_inter! rsf.org/en/after-exami…

The Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women condemned authorities for allowing Andrew Tate and his brother to enter Hong Kong as they should have been categorized as “undesirable for entry” scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

shocking story by @MrOlmos in @CalMatters identifies & names five Border Patrol agents using aggressive force across the US: tear gassing crowds, tackling teens, choking protesters, arresting citizens as Greg Bovino moved across the country, so did they calmatters.org/investigation/…