When Trump 2.0 met Xi 3.0 … Assessing the Summit - The Wire China thewirechina.com/2026/05/24/ass…
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Tom Mitchell
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Tom Mitchell
@TMitchHK
Wandering journalist. Stops along the way Boston, Tehran, Durham NC, Nanjing, Guangzhou, London, Beijing, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong … [email protected]
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Now outside @thewirechina ‘s paywall: international brinkmanship without “death to your civilization” threats - the 2001 Hainan spy plane crisis, an oral history Part 1. “Next thing I know, I’m in this plane upside down, looking up at the ocean. I thought we were dead for sure.”
The Wire China@thewirechina
🗞️Now free to read: The Hainan Spy Plane Crisis, Part I This time 25 years ago, the U.S. and China were in a tense standoff after a collision off China's southern coast that left one Chinese pilot missing and 24 American crewmen stuck on a PLA military base in Hainan. As similar tensions persist today, @thewirechina collects eyewitness testimony and accounts of the crisis: thewirechina.com/2026/03/29/ele…
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A Singapore Slinger: “He told investors he bought the watches well below retail prices, sold them to clients and later bought them back at a higher price. Then he sold them at even higher prices, making money for himself too. ‘He came across as someone you could trust,’ …
Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎@suilee
Last year, while reporting on the elections in Singapore, I got a tip about what was described as a potential Ponzi scheme in Singapore. It involved six-figures sums from dozens of investors, luxury watches, and a person we profiled before in our paper. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/wor…
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Now outside @thewirechina ‘s paywall: a geopolitical showdown without “end of civilization” bluster - the 2001 Hainan spy plane crisis, an oral history Part 1
The Wire China@thewirechina
🗞️Now free to read: The Hainan Spy Plane Crisis, Part I This time 25 years ago, the U.S. and China were in a tense standoff after a collision off China's southern coast that left one Chinese pilot missing and 24 American crewmen stuck on a PLA military base in Hainan. As similar tensions persist today, @thewirechina collects eyewitness testimony and accounts of the crisis: thewirechina.com/2026/03/29/ele…
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25 years ago this week Joseph Prueher, a former US Navy admiral & aviator, was envoy to China during the Hainan spy plane crisis. “I had an advantage I didn’t usually have - I knew what I was talking about,” he tells @thewirechina. “I was a pilot.” thewirechina.com/2026/03/29/the…
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I called Trump and he picked up..
Has Nato and the UK in his sights again
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Jeffrey Epstein sought to network his way into China business via princelings, Peter Mandelson, businessman David Stern and others. Great reporting from the @thewirechina crew. thewirechina.com/2026/02/13/eps…
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Epstein and China - @thewirechina reporters Noah Berman @eliotcxchen and @rachel_cheung1 dig up all sorts of connections that Epstein forged with China’s princelings - the relatives of top leaders of the Communist Party thewirechina.com/2026/02/13/eps…
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It’s the dawn of an old day in Thailand … nytimes.com/2026/02/08/wor…
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“I had handed a demon’s whip to the state to use against my own community.” By @LiYuan6
Li Yuan袁莉@LiYuan6
Ma Ruilin was a loyal CCP official climbing the ranks of China’s religious affairs bureaucracy. He was also a Hui Muslim. As the state intensified its crackdown on Islam, he found it increasingly impossible to reconcile those two identities. My latest: nytimes.com/2026/02/01/bus…
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Fascinating read from Drew Thompson (@chinadrew) on the shocking fall of Gen. Zhang Youxia. Drew provides a truly unique, personal angle—having met & respected Zhang as a competent, battle-tested PLA leader who could've offered Xi objective military advice.
'The demise of Zhang Youxia hits different' chinadrew.substack.com/p/the-demise-o…
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@DesmondShum You dimwit, Jin did not sleep with Summers, he was trying to lure her. And for the record. She is a professor at the London School of Economics and a published author. If you were a little less quick on the trigger you might not make a fool of yourself as you do here.
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“Talking to journalists on Thursday, after an event promoting national security education in kindergartens, Secretary for Security Chris Tang …”
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hkfp
[Recap] HK’s security chief has lambasted wanted activist Ted Hui for urging a boycott of the upcoming legislative elections, warning that encouraging blank ballots may violate the city’s national security law. hongkongfp.com/2025/10/31/hon…
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Kerry McGlynn was Chris Patten’s spin doctor in Hong Kong. The nicest, funniest, kindest man you might meet. And he left in style. RIP.
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I did the math: Xi Jinping, party head, commander in chief and state president (2013 - 2103)
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hkfp
[Recap] Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before Beijing's massive military parade this week, in comments picked up by state media microphones. buff.ly/yNewkkE
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What was the figure in 1942 ?
Michael Fullilove@mfullilove
🧵Since President Trump's election, the United States has changed direction. In the forthcoming 2025 @LowyInstitute Poll, only 36% of Australians say they trust the US to act responsibly in the world. This represents a big drop. It's the lowest result we have ever recorded. (1/2)
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