Bethany 貝書穎

From ping pong diplomacy to pickleball diplomacy Beijing, July 6 (Xinhua) — Recently, President Xi Jinping sent a written reply to the teachers and students of the youth pickleball cultural-exchange delegation from Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, who visited China under the…

"For Chinese citizens, that information is empowering, and they have a right to this." FH's @KevinSlaten spoke to @ASPI_org's @BethanyAllenEbr to discuss the impact and future of our one-of-a-kind China Dissent Monitor as the project navigates unprecedented funding cuts. ⬇️

The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, gaining support with warnings of a "silent invasion" of immigrants, and pledges for tax cuts and welfare spending. reuters.com/world/japanese…

The last public database tracking protests in China is about to go dark | @BethanyAllenEbr | bit.ly/3IAEYHc

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia John Noh, who has been nominated as assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, is visiting the United States Studies Centre in Sydney to talk about the U.S.-Australia alliance and AUKUS.

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @CooleyOnEurasia is now published by @OUPAcademic in the USA (rest of world soon)

This is a powerful and persuasive piece by @davidautor and @gordon_h_hanson in the NYT about how we need to focus on China's threat in tomorrow's industries, not keep looking back at yesterday's. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…

.@ChinaFile’s Jessica Batke and @LauraEdelson2, authors of a new report that reshapes our understanding of Chinese censorship, spoke to the @washingtonpost’s @NorthropKatrina about how the “Locknet” works. ow.ly/zelH50Wq6vi

EXCLUSIVE Beijing has dropped sanctions on Reinhard Buetikofer, the former EU lawmaker it sanctioned in 2021, as it looks to normalise ties with the European Parliament. scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Hong Kong to Consider Law to Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships—The bill, which follows a landmark court ruling, has been criticized by supporters as offering only limited rights to same-sex couples @austinramzy wsj.com/world/asia/hon…

I hate to break it to you @nvidia, but we actually looked into this a few years ago at @CSETGeorgetown. We combed through 66,000 of the PLA's actual purchase records. It turns out they *overwhelmingly* use your chips... And at the time, you didn't do anything about it. 😬

Tencent has launched legal action to take down our FreeWeChat.com project, using trademark infringement claims to mask what is clearly a politically motivated act of censorship. en.greatfire.org/blog/2025/jul/…

It's so weird that the graph for fertility v. female education and the graph for fertility v. male education look basically the same but you have probably only seen one on here.

NEW: University of California President Michael V. Drake sent a letter to all campuses today saying student governments are banned from boycotting Israel: latimes.com/california/sto…

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder to learn what to expect from a warming world. See which ones the Trump administration pulled. apnews.com/article/climat…

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

As with visa bans for college students, the State Department has been cracking down most aggressively on speech that is critical of Israel rather than the United States