Wandering journalist. Stops along the way Boston, Tehran, Durham NC, Nanjing, Guangzhou, London, Beijing, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong … [email protected]
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.”
🗞️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:
https://t.co/ZqFTpJn1Vg
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,’ …
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. https://t.co/gQInbHxxUk
Now outside @thewirechina ‘s paywall: a geopolitical showdown without “end of civilization” bluster - the 2001 Hainan spy plane crisis, an oral history Part 1
🗞️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:
https://t.co/ZqFTpJn1Vg
@ArchbishopOKC Invites All to Join @pontifex’s Vigil for Peace in Midst of Threats of Increased Military Action in Iran | Read the full release at: https://t.co/xLEsvluzXb
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.” https://t.co/4yBRbvBFfz
Doocy: You said twice today, that you talked to another former president about the Iran strikes. Was it George W Bush?
Trump: No
Doocy: Was it Bill Clinton?
Trump: I don’t want to say
Don’t call yourself a China expert, unless you can explain to your friends why a deer is making the rounds in New Year greetings for the Year of the Horse — and why the year’s guardian deity ought to be Lord Shang Yang rather than Malfoy.
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. https://t.co/Ze7lR9lGud
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 https://t.co/6VcUvsJ876
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: https://t.co/E2JXDY1ZhC
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' https://t.co/FrnQsC7qIr
[Recap] Beijing's nat. sec office in HK has shown support for local authorities against “anti-China disruptors” allegedly seeking to co-opt the deadly Tai Po fire to incite resentment against the government. https://t.co/ObrXFc7Dx2
@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.
[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. https://t.co/SRuXf93FzS
[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. https://t.co/7CI631VipR
🧵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)