AUTHOR: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town; Nothing to Envy (N. Korea),Logavina Street (Bosnia)
New York, USA
Joined March 2009
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I can't believe the US is criticizing Australia's efforts to allow social media users to turn off algorithms. It's utter corrupt pandering o big tech. The Australian initiative has nothing to do with censorship. It's merely giving people control over their own accounts. But it would go a long way to healing polarization. #algorithms
bbc.com/news/articles/cqj3dg…
North Korean workers have been forced to do this around Europe for years, basically stripped of the wages, locked in their factories. I found some in the Czech republic some years back.... globalrightscompliance.org/n…
October 26 at Gresham College, London. A lecture on narrative nonfiction and empathy
gresham.ac.uk/speakers/barba…
Excited to be heading next month to Taiwan. It's been too long... moc.gov.tw/en/News_Content2.…
Tibet. Chinese-style. Good story by @JChengWSJ. I had the same impression in Lhasa. The souvenir shops mostly run by Chinese for Chinese, didn't speak a word of Tibetan. Even the most common Buddhist symbol. wsj.com/world/in-china-battl…
The best footage I've seen from the interior of North Korea. Supplied by Kathi Zellweger, long-time aid official and author with @mikechinoy of a new memoir about her years working inside North Korea. youtube.com/watch?v=vM_tz35W…
This weekend-- the Jackson Hole Book Conference. Very excited to be part of it. jhnewsandguide.com/scene/eve…
Yes, if Australia can do it, so can we. It's so overdue to opt out of the algorithms, an easy fix for the some of the ills of social media.... like putting us in political silos....
nytimes.com/2026/09/08/world…
These stories about the #USSLIncoln reminds me of #NorthKorea. The late Kim Jong Il was the biggest foodie in Asia. He flew in sushi from Tokyo, cheese from France, caviar from Iran. His soldiers were starving. An interview I did with The New Yorker. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Good piece here about the Dalai Lama. When I interviewed him, he had a funny line. "If the Chinese believe in reincarnation, they should reincarnate Mao."
time.com/article/2026/07/09/…
A Demo for Democracy on Fourth of July by Milan Dosanjh medium.com/berlin-beyond-bor…
More than a decade after the wave of Tibetan self-immolations in Ngaba/Aba, this happened in New York. theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
The Future of Truth: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, philosopher A.C Grayling, journalist Barbara Demick, AI scientist Toby Walsh
abc.net.au/listen/programs/b…
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Deep admiration for @BarbaraDemick and the Chinese novelist Fang Fang, winners of the @AsiaSociety @chinabksreview Baifang Schell Book Prize. A great event tonight in NY. Fang Fang, whose books are banned in the PRC, was not able to leave China to accept her award.
Lyse Doucet and me. Together in Sydney. Chatting together about our lives as foreign correspondents.
abc.net.au/listen/programs/g…
Overseas Press Club awards. Congratulations to all... opcofamerica.org/87th-annual…
Together with @JanePerlez on Faceoff. This episode about identical twins, one Chinese and one American, and what they teach us about nationality and identity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
