Maria Repnikova

Assoc. Prof & Endowed Chair @GSUArtSci. Study #Chinese Media #SoftPower #ChinaAfrica, #ChinaRussia; Bylines @NYT @washingtonpost @Atlantic

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Excited for the new publication in @TheChinaJournal w my grad student and soon incoming @Uva_EAC post-doc @WendyZhou502 on #Chinese public sentiments about #Russia's war in #Ukraine. Free copy for first 50 clicks here: https://t.co/gBGDl94Ymi. Thread with our arguments below

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Is There a « China Model » to Export? Training Elites and Disseminating Narratives, from Ethiopia to Cambodia https://t.co/9z0iHRoX4u

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

I want to be at this party!

[Charlotte de Witte @CharlottedWitte]

Genova, i have no words what just happened. I saw people dancing from all ages. Everyone smiling and dancing to the beat. Honestly, the whole thing is making me a bit emotional. These are very powerful moments. I’m beyond honored to have been able to play for you today ❤️

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Definitely

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The absurd Orban claims of fraud and foreign interference are gonna be a good preview of GOP claims of fraud and foreign interference after the mid-terms.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Sometimes one needs to remind people of the credentials.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

I have a PhD in political science from Oxford, focused on US foreign policy; worked as a State Dept. official in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East; and wrote a celebrated foreign policy book taught at universities like Princeton. That's why I get geopolitical questions.

[Rongbin Han @HanRongbin]

@MariaRepnikova Thanks so much for this generous praise, Maria! I really appreciate it! As I said elsewhere, I hope readers will enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed reading the novels.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Iranians are forming human chains on bridges — standing together against threats of destruction.

This is today on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, Iran.

Trump and Israel’s criminal war has united all of Iranian society — every faith, every class — in defense of their homeland.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Congratulations to @HanRongbin! It’s on my fall syllabus. Everything Rongbin writes is original, rigorous and fascinating.

[Rongbin Han @HanRongbin]

Thrilled to share that my new book Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism (Columbia UP) has come out. This is the first book studying China's Internet literature, esp. alt-history fiction from the perspective of authoritarian legitimation.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

On my list! Congratulations!

[Ilya Matveev @IlyaMatveev_]

Time for a grand announcement

Ilya Budraitskis and me wrote a book. It's out in September 2026

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

@AGhiselliChina @DanGarrett97 Fantástico! Can’t wait to read.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

@kyleichan Thank you!

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

My new book, Competing for Soft power: #China's Image-Making in #Africa now has a cover and endorsements and is available for pre-order: https://t.co/WdYIZqK8wA

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

@hellomrbhatt Thank you, Deepak! I hope you are doing well.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

@ewong Thank you!

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Such delicate creatures!

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Ladies, all those men telling you to smile—they were actually just being mega perceptive

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

.@mackenziescott you have the opportunity to do an extremely funny (and genuinely heroic) thing right now

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Same.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Through it all, I kept my @washingtonpost subscription, mostly to support the brave and important work that its reporters—both my friends and people I'd never bet—were still doing. After today's unconscionable firings, I've canceled my subscription. Because fuck that.

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Sigh.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Absolutely. Makes me think about a recent conference I went to on oligarchy, where I learned that modern billionaires have no interest in society or in public good.

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

always bears repeating that this is NOT ultimately a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

[Maria Repnikova @MariaRepnikova]

Incredible and deeply troubling.

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.