Joshua Yang

International desk @washingtonpost. Ex-freelance ✏️ @foreignpolicy @restofworld etc.

[Joshua Yang @joshuaqyang]

Last December, I spent two weeks in Ukraine speaking to members of parliament, civil society activists, and teachers to understand the future that the country’s next, fractured generation faces. New for @ForeignPolicy:

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags into its fifth year, Ukraine’s next generation is scattered across the world. https://t.co/IDiVoiI3fc

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

While hundreds of VOA journalists remain on paid administrative leave, where they’ve lingered since March 2025 while litigation against the government continues, contractors have had to reinvent their careers, often leaving journalism behind entirely. https://t.co/Udfz0I6Ebb

[Joshua Yang @joshuaqyang]

@emilyrauhala Congrats, this is so exciting!

[Reuters @Reuters]

EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say https://t.co/IVVXnf2qI7 https://t.co/IVVXnf2qI7

[Ben Pauker @benpauker]

Inside the covert U.S.-China battle to make chatbots leak their secrets… from @catecadell @GerritD https://t.co/cpYvH0fxzI

[Carlos Barragán @CarlosBarraganT]

An incredible, gut-wrenching story about Myanmar's civil war by Hannah Beech. It should get a Pulitzer straight away. Please do read it.

The War Forgotten by the World Is an Apocalypse Now

https://t.co/Mw1Mv8KbfR

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

“China Sells a Softer Image of Xinjiang, One Tourist at a Time…Travel brochures call the region the ‘Switzerland of the East.’ Social media influencers post images of lush grasslands and mist rising from the valley floor.”
@Colum_M https://t.co/gdWxx4CokF

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[Joshua Yang @joshuaqyang]

@ishaantharoor @AnupKaphle @NewYorker Excited to once more read your weekly columns… it’s been too long!

[Huiyee Chiew @huiiiiiyee]

My latest story on how young Chinese are stumbling across Tiananmen history through Alysa Liu. In February, a post on RedNote asked why her father, Arthur Liu, was so controversial. Anji, 20, a student from Wuhan, advised users to look up his background. Her comment was removed.

[Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @Yaqiu]

A Chinese dissident’s worst nightmare: You escape China, only to find the CCP still making your life hell — and the interpreter for the police in your new country, the person who is supposed to help you, turns out to be a CCP shill. https://t.co/i9YJv5JrC4

[Ellen Nakashima @nakashimae]

SCOOP: Mauricio Claver-Carone -- Trump's unofficial Venezuela viceroy -- doesn’t work for the U.S. government but has an outsize role in shaping policy there.

@schmidtsam7 @Anthony_Faiola @karendeyoung1 @samueloakford

https://t.co/92ufwjiLiq

[Financial Times @FT]

Indian youth ‘cockroach’ protest goes viral https://t.co/y36ZrDWoEg

[Financial Times @FT]

As China’s graduates battle an increasingly hostile job market, some elite universities are offering courses that emphasise President Xi Jinping’s own writings, with units with titles such as: ‘Consistently Advance the New Great Project of Party Building’. https://t.co/WbbQZCiYWG

[Aidan Stretch @aidan_stretch]

Ukrianian high schoolers are here at the site of a building destroyed in southeastern Kyiv during last night’s Russian attack. They believe their friend is buried underneath.

[Isaac Stone Fish @isaacstonefish]

It's hard to overstate how wrong the media narrative that China is predictable and stable and the United States is unpredictable and unstable is. I've been thinking about, visiting, and analyzing China and the Chinese Communist Party for most of my short life and it never seizes to amaze, surprise, impress and unsettle me.
Who predicted the purges, who knew when they would happen, and to whom? Who knows who will succeed Xi Jinping? Who knows what the next DeepSeek will be? Who knows if China will invade Taiwan, and if so, when? Who knows who the secret Ministry of State Security informers are in businesses? Who knows what gets said in a Politburo meeting, and what that means for the future of the country? We need a lot more humility and perspective in our understanding of China.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Bravo to @hannah_natanson, whose Pulitzer Prize reporting overcame an outrageous and chilling FBI raid on her home, a threat to journalism in this country

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
https://t.co/PMxJxiaMcg

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

NEW: A @washingtonpost deep dive on the latest state of play in the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth is tightening control and more confident in his job security than ever.

[Hassan I. Hassan @hxhassan]

Exclusive: The Trump admin wants to resettle 1,000+ Afghan allies who served alongside U.S. forces, in the DRC instead of the U.S. Some of them are now inside a Qatar transit camp, where access is tightly restricted.

By @kliwewe in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/zlUmfQayUi

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Reuters: An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen.
@DavidKirton_
https://t.co/20pvl7VqWn