William Nee

Senior Manager for East Asia at @NEDemocracy. posts on China/中国, human rights, IR, Catholicism, trail running. Views expressed are my own.

[William Nee @williamnee]

My op-ed in the @Diplomat_APAC is now opt!

In the piece, I analyze some recent cases involving suppression of #Christianity in China, and try to make sense out of the logic behind China's governance of religions more broadly.

https://t.co/uLwRHr7Zoy

[William Nee @williamnee]

@Noahpinion This is fairly representative of the Han middle class view of the situation, in my experience

[Hong Kong Democracy Council @hkdc_us]

Good to see @amnestyOz w/ help of @badiucao advocating for #HongKong #PoliticalPrisoners Chow Hang-tung & Lee Cheuk-yan on the 37th anniversary of the #TiananmenMassacre. They deserve to be well-known worldwide & will be remembered at the Sydney #June4 vigil at Chinese consulate.

[William Nee @williamnee]

@KaiserKuo @Baidu_Inc @LiYuan6 Ah, I see.

[William Nee @williamnee]

@KaiserKuo @Baidu_Inc @LiYuan6 I don’t have an X subscription at the moment, and so choices are either delete or allow people to see this discussion

[William Nee @williamnee]

@KaiserKuo @Baidu_Inc @LiYuan6 Thanks for that context, Kaiser. Apologies if I blamed Baidu unfairly.

Hopefully it will be changed soon.

[William Nee @williamnee]

@John17Churchill @Baidu_Inc @LiYuan6 Thanks!

[Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson]

With the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre coming up tonight, @MinjianArchives publishes an excerpt from @liaoyiwu1 forthcoming book on Liu Xiaobo and the Tiananmen Mothers--a moving account of survivor guilt and dealing with trauma.
#六四 #tiananmen
https://t.co/JTP7AmK8hJ

[NEDemocracy @NEDemocracy]

37 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese Communist Party continues to violently suppress dissent at home and abroad while attempting to erase its past crimes from the historical record.

Join us online today to commemorate the victims of June 4, 1989, and hear reflections from Chinese democracy leaders, Hong Kong activists, Tibetan and Uyghur advocates, and others who have experienced Beijing's repression firsthand yet continue to defend freedom, historical truth, and democratic values in China.

Wednesday, June 3 | 1:30 PM ET

Watch live here: https://t.co/Sbx9QlkoVX

[William Nee @williamnee]

More on how the government and aligned companies are framing Teacher Li:

[William Nee @williamnee]

Great profile of the prolific and fascinating Chinese social media poster/news source - Teacher Li (@whyyoutouzhele), by @LiYuan6👇

“He’s like the loudspeaker through which all the other voices” — Chinese voices — “come out into the world.” - @LauraHarth

https://t.co/O13Fk2ilB5

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is a huge escalation- Beijing sanctioning 5 eyes lawmakers simply for visiting Taiwan.

🇳🇿 PM @chrisluxonmp must meet this challenge very firmly indeed. Beijing is treating 🇳🇿 this way because they think they can.

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

网友投稿：
在1989年六四天安门事件37周年到来前夕

一如既往，QQ、微信、拼多多、抖音等平台进入“系统维护”模式，暂停了“个人资料修改”的功能

[William Nee @williamnee]

Brilliant piece by Eli Friedman laying out the history of the hukou system in China, the structural obstacles to reform, and pointing out that news of hukou reform feels a bit like Groundhog Day.

(Nonetheless, one hopes for some progress).

https://t.co/kIfW39npL0

[William Nee @williamnee]

Incredible to think that Fulton Sheen was preaching to a young, future Pope!

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

Pope Leo XIV praised Venerable Fulton J. Sheen today as “a light of faith, hope, and love” whose radio and television broadcasts brought the Gospel to millions of Americans, including the pope himself as a child.

“Archbishop Sheen was a light of faith, hope, and love that shone through the radio and television media for decades,” Pope Leo said.

“I myself am a witness of his evangelization when I was growing up,” the pope added.

“His broadcasts touched millions with the hope of the Gospel and his initiatives and efforts resulted in enormous spiritual and material aid to the Churches in areas of first evangelization.”

https://t.co/WGcOoWsXnf

[The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation @thecfhk]

Thursday marks 37 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre. Join @NEDemocracy this Wednesday, June 3 (1:30-3:30 PM ET) for "Echoes of Tiananmen: Memory, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom."

@thecfhk's policy and advocacy manager, @frances_hui, will be speaking alongside survivors of the 1989 movement, human rights advocates, and democracy defenders from around the world -- including Chinese, Hong Kong, Tibetan, and Uyghur voices.

Make sure to tune in here: https://t.co/pfrtMQUKKw

[China Commission @CECCgov]

📢IMPORTANT UPDATE📢
🚨Date and Location Changed🚨
The hearing will now take place on June 4, 2026, from 1:30–3:30 p.m., in Room 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building.
https://t.co/5hDovwnypx #TransnationalRepression

[Nadège Rolland @RollandNadege]

In Xinjiang, the human rights crisis is far from over

[William Nee @williamnee]

“A study published this year by a nongovernmental organization tracked how Beijing harnessed the G77 to lobby the budgetary committee in concert with Moscow to reduce spending on human rights. China provides minimal funding to U.N. humanitarian programs.”

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Trump and Xi Jinping are conspiring to starve the United Nations of funds. Each is trying to use their government's arrears to force changes, but there agendas are vastly different. Meanwhile, essential U.N. functions are languishing. https://t.co/yn1lebMYgm

[HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @HKLabourRights]

🚨BREAKING: Families of victims of the 1989 #TiananmenMassacre have reportedly been banned from mourning their loved ones at Beijing's Wan'an Cemetery on #June4 — the first such restriction in over three decades.
The Tiananmen Mothers have condemned the move as a violation of basic human dignity and the right to remember the dead.

Source: @RFA_Chinese

Full: https://t.co/7wxSYsZ4Hp

[Damon M. Wilson @DamonMacWilson]

@MariaCorinaYA returns to Oslo where she first traveled to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and delivers important message as she now prepares her return to Venezuela —at #OsloFreedomForum—“from resistance to governance, in which the state serves the nation.”

“Requires coalitions broad enough to govern and stable enough to reform.”

Speaks of need to transform mandate of July 28 into a peaceful democratic solution — including returning to the ballot box under free and fair elections.

“Freedom without institutions is fragile.”

“A government without the people is not democratic.”

“My responsibility is to create the conditions for the new Venezuela to flourish.”

This new Venezuela will be “a base for the global fight against tyranny. In our nation, you will have the fiercest allies.”