FAN Wenxin
@xinwenfan
Journalist on China. Alum of @wsj @business @nytimes @StanfordJourn @niemanfdn
Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing (months after I first tried to contact her for another story). npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s…
++++ Exclusive: Not only are Trump‘s top security advisors discussing attack plans on Yemen on Signal - their mobile numbers, E-Mail and passwords can be found in commercial databases and publickly available leaks. Our @derspiegel Investigation (1/ spiegel.de/international/…
Must-read feature that would have shined in any news magazine, by @violazhouyi who braved the Michigan snowstorm to bring us a documentary movie-style story of a Chinese EV business in America! restofworld.org/2025/gotion-ev…
在中国，“新闻已死”，最专业的媒体被称为“谣媒”，记者经常被骂“吃人血馒头”；在美国，川普说主流媒体是“Fake News”，社交媒体上各种不实消息大肆传播。在这个后真相的时代，为什么还需要新闻媒体？资深记者李思磐与范文欣分享了他们的看法：youtu.be/vGmIyfpOaKs @LiYuan6
#编程随想 #阮晓寰 二审。 今天下午14:00，上海高院开庭宣判。审判长周欣，审判员：凌莉、须梅华。宣读了几段话，14:07左右就结束了，维持原判。 上海司法的一个浓臭脏印。 我们会继续申诉。 任何时代、任何情况，都不能让自己失去希望！ 出庭时阮晓寰精神状况很好。二审后家属就可以会见了……
董郁玉被判7年！
China just freed 3 American prisoners. But it is holding many Chinese citizens on unjust charges. Yuyu Dong, a former @Harvard Nieman fellow, is the most prominent journalist being detained in mainland China. How will the Trump administration handle this? nytimes.com/2023/04/24/wor…
China court sentences journalist Dong Yuyu to 7 years on spy charges, family says reut.rs/49bkrCd
Former journalist Gwyneth Ho's statement included an impassioned plea to Hong Kongers: "Restore faith in democratic values through action". Ho also called it "comical" for authorities to cast their informal poll as subversion. sg.news.yahoo.com/despondency-de…
What the opposition viewed as a political maneuver authorized by Hong Kong’s constitution, China’s Communist Party leadership saw as a criminal scheme to subvert the government. @austinramzy
Hong Kong sentenced dozens of pro-democracy politicians and activists to up to 10 years in prison under a tough national security law on.wsj.com/3UYV7K5
Another person with one of the longest jail terms wasn’t a main organizer of the thing they’re being charged for. Gwyneth Ho is the journalist who recorded state-aligned armed mobs beating up civilians in Yuen Long for an hour after shaking hands with the police who stood by.
#JUSTIN: Former journalist Gwyneth Ho was sentenced to 84 months in prison, one of the longest jail terms among defendant not accused of being a main organiser.
突发！半个小时前 11月19日，常德鼎城区永安小学，一男子报复社会，开车冲撞上学的小学生。 现场孩子们四散奔逃，随后司机被群众合伙制服。
China’s Once-Unwanted Daughters Have Grown Up—and Now They Shun Motherhood. Cast aside in favor of sons, some women say trauma of one-child policy shattered their sense of family. Powerful and insightful piece by @shenlulushen wsj.com/world/china/ch…
The Panda Factory: How Chinese authorities and American zoos have put a rosy sheen on a problematic panda conservation program. Can only imagine how dedicated @MaraHvistendahl and @JoyDongHK were to this great investigation. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
季风书店被关闭的前几天，上海的思想警察再次找于淼谈话。当于淼问他们，为什么要关闭这样一家书店时，其中一个看起来颇有“水平”的警察回答：你可以把这一切想象成是小说《1984》中的一个场景。 wainao.me/wainao-reads/j…
Great great news: JF Books, a famous bookstore shut in Shanghai in 2017, is going to open soon in Washington DC’s DuPont Circle, selling Chinese language books.📚
An ultra-detailed, hallmark @PekingMike 🧵expanding on the stellar investigation he did with the amazing @NorthropKatrina @eliotcxchen, published by @nytimes and @thewirechina . Is it also a debut of the @WirescreenAI tool @DavidBarboza2 created?
THREAD: Those darned Swiss banks. Anyone closely reading our story yesterday about the ties between Jack Ma and the jailed financier Xiao Jianhua would have noticed the names of 3 Swiss Banks: UBS, Credit Suisse, and one that isn't a household name: J Safra Sarasin (1/x)
For Evan Gershkovich, Food Is Connection. His Supporters Are Cooking to Show Their Love. Wonderful piece by @bethkracklauer. Cook an Evan Burger to remember him this July 4. #IStandWithEvan #CookforEvan wsj.com/arts-culture/f…