Coming this fall, and available now for pre-order, a project that has been in the works since 2019. Among the Braves, with @ShibaniMahtani, the story of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the lives and city it has shaped.

RT @ForeignAffairs: “Rich countries around the world are watching one another for policy models. If the Supreme Court’s June 23 decision on….

RT @John_Hudson: Among the State Department offices cut was the Office of Multilateral Affairs within EAP, which managed U.S. engagement wi….

Reminiscent of June ‘15 incident when Indian forces crossed into Myanmar. (Messaging mess then. What up Zaw Htay?) Seems very unlikely that Myanmar will denounce this given coziness between India and the junta even if they weren’t aware and they very well could have been.

RT @FT: US demands to know what allies would do in event of war over Taiwan

Rare celebrity meeting for a leader on the US sanctions list: .

RT @STForeignDesk: US citizen killed in West Bank settler attack

I wrote about Eadeh's situation and the harassment she faced in a 2021 in a piece for @TheAtlantic on Ta Kung Pao: .

Eadeh is well known to Hong Kongers, and pro-Beijing conspiracy theorists, she was smeared as a foreign hand behind the 2019 protests by state media after a photo was taken of her briefly meeting with Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and others.

RT @politico: Vietnam thought it had a deal on its US tariff rate. Then Trump stepped in.

RT @stephendziedzic: Laos denies claim by Ukraine's military that it's preparing to send sappers to Russia to help de-mining efforts in Kur….

There will be hyperbolic posts and stories in the coming days about how this appointment and others, namely Malaysia, will throw the region into China's arms. The situation is far more complex than that.

Biden's appointee to Singapore was also totally unqualified, not an opinion, State Department's own Inspector General found this. When both political parties agree that putting diplomatic posts up for sale is fine and normal, this is the inevitable outcome.

Soon, likely early next month perhaps on Aug. 1, the junta will reshuffle the government and begin the process of preparing for the election. It seems ASEAN is dipping the toe in with support, while India, China and Russia will most likely fully go along.

Pauk-Phaw with a dash of Qanon.

"Similar to the challenges the President encountered during the 2020 election of the United States, Myanmar also experienced major electoral fraud and significant irregularities. " . Junta tries to build US relations based on shared conspiracy theories of stolen elections:

RT @mattduss: Ask yourself what could possibly make a global superpower this afraid of a human rights expert.

Given his views on Israel and the fact Malaysia doesn't formally recognize the country, this should be interesting.

“The defendant allegedly posted seditious publications on social media platforms X and Instagram between June 2024 and April this year. But prosecutors on Wednesday sought to amend the charge, upgrading it from sedition to inciting subversion.” .

Background here: .

Myanmar photographer who was beaten and detained for taking photo of 8888 umbrella protest in Yangon in 2022 posts an update today. Says he was interrogated for 60 days and sentenced to 3 years of hard labor. Since being released has made his way to a "liberated area."