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Beijing bureau chief , previously in the Middle East. 洛杉矶时报驻北京记者苏奕安 alice.su@latimes.com or aliceysu@protonmail.com

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Joined March 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 30

    Instead of joining the many red tourism trips officials offered in the lead-up to the CCP's 100th anniversary this year, we designed our own history tour - a train journey through China, including ppl & places often left out of the Party's story:

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  2. Retweeted
    Dec 26

    In the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where agriculture began, climate-fueled drought and upstream diversions by Iran and Turkey are drying up some of the world’s most fertile land. Story by ⁦⁩, photos by ⁦⁦⁩:

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  3. Dec 23
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  4. Dec 23

    Just received this Hong Kong photo book and it is beautiful & heartbreaking. Says so much without words. Thank you for your years of witness

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  5. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    Poems by Li Tiantian, a teacher who was taken into a psychiatric hospital by local police after “posting unacceptable comments on social media.”

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  6. Retweeted
    Dec 22
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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    Statement from Jens , the artist who created the sculpture

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    The famous statue in commemorating the bloody crackdown around ’s Square in 1989 has been removed.

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  9. Dec 22

    Love this & love the Japanese restaurants in Gubei/Hongqiao 😍 (after Japanese man in Shanghai tests positive for COVID, contact tracers release records of his tracks and ppl take it as a guide to best Japanese food in the area)

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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    This piece from the BBC is moving and tragic, including voice messages from the Kurds who lost their lives trying to reach the UK last month. They thought someone would come to rescue them as their boat took on water. No one did.

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  11. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    The New Yorker just published an essay I wrote. This is the first time I have written about my family story. Words can not express my gratitude, especially to

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  12. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    就在刚刚,纽约客发表了我写的文章。这是我第一次写下我家人的故事。几周前,半夜醒来,委屈从心底涌到眼睛。我先生听见我哭声醒来,没有说话,但紧紧的握住了我的手。哭到筋疲力尽,只能停下来时。他:用你的文字告诉别人发生的悲剧,我相信他们会听的。那晚,我走进了书房

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    事情是这样的:先是上海震旦学院的宋庚一老师在课堂上说南京大屠杀的死亡人数没有历史依据,被学生举报,导致其被开除。官方也批评她并力挺举报的学生。而深圳大学的教师吴远卿则在朋友圈转发了一篇人民日报的旧闻《不告密不揭发是道德底线》,谴责震旦学院举报的学生,现吴远卿也被举报,正接受调查。

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    This is wild. A teacher Li Tiantian says she’s been locked in a mental asylum because she spoke out in support for another professor, herself fired for simply saying more precise historical research was needed into the Nanjing Massacre

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  15. Dec 20

    A breathtaking, intimate, deeply compassionate review of 2021 from 👏❤️

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  16. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    Please read this story about the most pristine river in California and how the battle for its estuary unearthed a history of trauma – trauma to not just the land, but also the native people of the land. Let me introduce you to the Smith River valley...

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  17. Retweeted
    Dec 18

    Today marks 3 months of the forcible disappearance of & . Wang's father, Wang Zhixue on video publicly requested the authorities, ① to allow family & lawyers to meet with Wang Jianbing; ② to provide a reasonable explanation on why my son was arrested.

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  18. Dec 17

    "Ideological control & propaganda is the core of the toolkit for the communist party to achieve & maintain its success. We are not making judgement on whether it is right or wrong." - Amazon briefing for head lobbyist, a former White House press secretary, before a trip to China

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  19. Dec 17

    Fantastic ⁦⁩ reporting on how Amazon bent over backwards to sell kindle & cloud services in China, including by promoting Xi’s books as “best sellers,” censoring reviews of propaganda films & providing a dissident’s IP address to authorities

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  20. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    Important reporting: Fretting about data security, China's government expands its use of 'golden shares' ... (A practice that would be considered extortion in a normal society)

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  21. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    “When loy­alty is the crit­i­cal mea­sure for of­fi­cials, no one dares to say any­thing, even if the in­struc­tions from the great leader are vague and con­fus­ing about what to do.” Our inside story on what it’s like to work for Xi Jinping:

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