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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 27

    ICMYI: One of the hardest stories I've written — on how a Uighur father living in Istanbul, who hasn't heard from his disappeared wife and kids in years, found his 4-year-old son in a propaganda video while scrolling through Douyin earlier this year.

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    10 hours ago

    Even though it is very grating, I kind of like controversial food question twitter because it makes public the garbage cultural small talk POC have to sit through in mostly white spaces lol

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Here we go

    In China's national security establishment, a 26-year-old is a novice, impossible to take a position as important as Wang described. Chinese people know this is a swindler upon hearing his stories, but Western public opinion regards him as a big fish.
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  4. 20 hours ago

    Latest from me and on the striking parallels between China and India’s campaigns in Xinjiang, Kashmir, and Assam. And why they’ll probably keep going because nobody is stopping them.

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  5. Nov 23

    What's extraordinary is that he's *going on the record* with all these details. Hard to fathom the physical and reputational risks he's taking.

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  6. Retweeted
    Nov 22

    Here are some very preliminary thoughts on the defection of Chinese intel operative Wang Liqiang. Key points - Wang's claims not surprising - details needs to be verified - bombshell in Taiwan given election - new fuel for China debate in Oz - more revelations to come

    PRC intelligence official Wang Liqiang 王立強 defected in Australia & went public on China's intelligence, interference and information operations in HK, Taiwan and Australia.…
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  7. Nov 22

    "Victoria's Secret has cast more models of color in recent years, but the brand's entire cast still represents just one body type." on why VS cancelling its fashion show is probably a good thing

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  8. Nov 22

    😐

    Trump says you have a great day and then you pick up the New York Times and you see a bad story about the day, but also he doesn't read the New York Times anymore.
  9. Nov 22

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    Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned........
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    Nov 22

    The end of GSOMIA is not nigh for now. It has been "conditionally suspended" which means it the pact will not expire at midnight tonight.

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    Nov 20

    Amid a crackdown on foreign universities in China, NYU Shanghai quietly added a pro-government course, students told me. It was apparently taught on campus by instructors including Yu Lizhong, the chancellor of the school. My scoop for /:

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  12. Nov 20

    Wow. Tuvalu stands up to China and sticks by Taiwan.

    “Tuvalu’s foreign minister said on Thursday the South Pacific nation had rejected offers from Chinese companies to build artificial islands to help it cope with rising sea levels, an approach viewed as undermining Taiwan’s influence in the region”
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    Nov 20

    There are so many hardworking journalists breaking through, at student newspapers and online outlets and newspapers and more. The Times has certainly shown it's no dinosaur, but these comments are alienating and take away from good work done outside the paper(s) of record.

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    Nov 20

    Andrew yang says he's "reclaiming" stereotypes w/his asian jokes. so I talked to sociologists and academics to see what it means to reclaim a stereotype, the impact yang's comments have on AAPIs, & how culturally significant his campaign is. highlights:

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    Nov 19

    It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during this debate. Please do not mistake it for an independent fact checking service such as , or

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    Nov 19

    "The Weibo tributes — and the document leak to The Times — offer a glimpse of dissent in a heavily oppressed environment."

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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    How Prince Andrew's voluntary decision to do a primetime interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has set his reputation on fire

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  18. Nov 18

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    TikTok is reportedly considering a rebrand in the US to shed its Chinese roots
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    Nov 16

    OK, it's time to play 'Guess the CCP reaction' to the leak. Will it be

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  20. Nov 18

    China's response to NYT's explosive report on the leaked Xinjiang docs: The Times doesn't know what it's talking about and is trying to smear our *very successful* counter-terrorism efforts. Does not deny the veracity of the docs, though.

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    Nov 16

    There are nearly 200 pages of speeches by Xi Jinping, XJ party secretary Chen Quanguo and security boss Zhu Hailun. There’s another 150+ pages of directives and orders on controlling the Muslim population. I’ve reported on China since 2003, and can’t recall a leak like this

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  22. Nov 17

    I want to highlight almost everything in this piece, but this detail stuck with me: As early as 2014, Xi Jinping was already telling officials “Don’t be afraid if hostile forces whine, or if hostile forces malign the image of Xinjiang.”

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  23. Nov 17

    This is shocking. Really, really great get by and

    More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents detail the origins and growth of the indoctrination program in Xinjiang, where a million or more predominately Muslim minorities have been held in a vast network of detention centers
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    Nov 14

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  25. Nov 15

    THE CARLYLE GROUP is also involved in this

    Don’t know what else to do
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  26. Nov 14

    Turkey doesn't want to hold onto foreign ISIS fighters but neither does the rest of the world. So where will they go great piece by

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    Nov 14

    Indeed

    Which Sen. Graham followed up on by ... blocking the Senate from the Armenian genocide resolution?
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  28. Nov 14

    Per Swan's source, "Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Erdoğan: 'Well, do you want me to go get the Kurds to make one about what you've done?'"

    Per three sources familiar - Erdoğan apparently thought he could sway these senators in the Oval by forcing them to watch an anti-Kurdish propaganda film on an iPad.
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  29. Nov 14

    Wow. Worth reading in full.

    1. Four years ago today three hit teams killed 130 people in Paris, the most significant ISIS attack so far, but their instructor is still shrouded in secrecy. A Swiss-German convert, Thomas-Marcel Christen rose to the very top in ISIS external operations.
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  30. Nov 14

    "The question came from reporter Rahim Rashidi of the Iraqi Kurdistan network K24, who was dubbed 'Mr. Kurd' by Trump during a press conference last year when discussing the fight against ISIS." I FORGOT ABOUT THIS

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  31. Nov 14

    I mean

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  32. Nov 14

    Good 1

    The president’s press secretary bemoaned the “boring” hearings, while Trump’s son Eric called it a “"
  33. Nov 13

    Which speechwriter did this

    . congratulates Bill Taylor and George Kent on being "cast" in the "low-rent Ukrainian sequel" to the "Russia hoax"
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  34. Nov 13

    Here we go. China's Foreign Ministry is now using the World Bank statement to say "look, nothing out of turn is happening in Xinjiang." Anyone at the Bank or beyond who might be able to give some context about this — my DMs are open...

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  35. Nov 12

    The VP of Dahua, another Chinese tech company, also used of the fact that it was under US sanctions as a marketing tool last month. Great finds by and

    Hikvision marketed a camera that claims to automatically identify "racial attributes" — like Uighurs vs Han Chinese — then deleted the online product description after asked about it. Doesn't get more plain than this. …
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  36. Nov 12

    Alibaba's 2019 Singles Day celebration included "a performance by Luo Tianyi — a virtual singer popular in China — commissioned by sanitary pad brand Whisper." You can't make this up

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  37. Nov 12

    Would like to know how China treated WB investigators, and whether they ran into any trouble/restrictions while there.

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  38. Nov 12

    World Bank says its review of partner schools in Xinjiang "did not substantiate the allegations" that they were part of China's "vocational education" project — in apparent of just how difficult it is for intl powers to monitor in the region.

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    Nov 12

    My colleague got hold of a massive tranche of leaked documents about a new, secretive partnership between Google and major US healthcare system Ascension. with

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    Nov 11

    If there's one thing I'll take away from reporting today, it's that tech companies are increasingly going to have a hand in what's going on with our health data. Are we comfortable with that?

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  41. Nov 12

    Per my source: - Ascension patients weren't notified of this partnership - 2,000/40,000 doctors and nurses knew - As of today, data on 20m patients have been uploaded to the Cloud, with another 30m patients' info to be transferred over the next ~3 months

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