I’ve spent most of my career as a journalist and researcher, writing about China from a geopolitics and human rights perspective. Why China? Because it’s a fascinating country with extraordinary stories. More importantly, it’s where I spent the first 19 years of my life. I care deeply about its people and future About three years ago, I became one of those persecuted Chinese journalists. I don’t live in China, and have since become an Australian citizen. The term "transnational repression" describes my experience: state-sponsored surveillance, harassment, smear campaigns, and threats of violence. There are many ways a superpower can upend a life.

New piece out today in @SatPaper in response to Wang Yi's visit to Australia buff.ly/3PQpvUk
@SatPaper Highlights

一个观点：如果你的亲朋好友因为参加了“白纸运动”而被捕，我会鼓励你站出来跟媒体讲他们的故事——尤其如果你人在国外，不打算回国。如果匿名受访的话，风险很低，却有可能帮到被拘捕、处境最危险的人。（当然，实名受访会有更大的影响力。）1/8 从两个角度看这个事情：

第一，记者的角度。2019年给《纽约时报》写维吾尔人的遭遇时，我们给中国政府发电报问了两个维族家庭的事情（两家都有亲戚在澳洲发声），电报之后文章还没发人就放出来了。但这个经验并不适用所有案例。也有很多人常年为家人上媒体呼吁，比如@RayhanAsat，中方也没有放人

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Read this insightful piece (1st published in the @australian) on @SenatorWong's visit to china this week!

And, thread, which also includes some of my own analysis

aspistrategist.org.au/wongs-visit-is… 1/ Really great point: "Assuming such engagements continue and increase, the Australian government needs a clear pathway setting out what it aims to achieve and how it intends to respond to Beijing’s short-term expectations of silence and longer-term demands of changed policy." 2/

would love to write about how labor government policies/rhetorics on china amount to "quiet-quitting". if only there is the time and space to do so as im not writing a whole piece i'll write a couple quick points. 1) a "calm and consistent" approach sounds v condescending. it implies that communist china is a rogue state (which it truly is) and australia is trying to be the adult in the relationship

In the grand scheme of things this is such a small and pathetic complaint but I have to complain about this. I’m a Chinese journalist and write about human rights. So the Chinese government canceled me last year and Chinese media blasted disinformation about what a liar and 1/ slut I am for months and months. I’m in 15-people orgies Chinese media said. I’m a demon they also said. The Chinese secret police (the MSS) made/fabricated a 4-episode documentary series about my supposed sex life. I was too traumatized to date or think about anything sexual 2/