Substacks recommended by Rory Truex

Recommended by Rory Truex

Sinica

By Kaiser Y Kuo

Podcasts, columns, and essays about current affairs in China

Kaiser is a hugely important voice in the China field. I listen to Sinica all the time.

- Rory Truex

Amanda Litman

Making the content I wish to see in the world, one email at a time. Leadership, politics, parenting, books, and whatever else is on my mind.

High Capacity

By Kyle Chan

China's tech and industrial policy: manufacturing, global supply chains, AI, clean tech, EVs, trade, economic competition.

Holy smokes Kyle Chan knows so much and you should read anything he writes

- Rory Truex

What's Happening in China

By PC

A weekly China brief, delivered straight to your inbox every Saturday. Since 2019.

A thoughtful, rich China newsletter, great for anyone trying to stay up to date

- Rory Truex

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Explaining international politics, and especially the fight between autocrats and democrats in the world today.

Un-Diplomatic

By Van Jackson

Global power to the people. A newsletter about the class politics of geopolitics.

I learn a lot from Van Jackson

- Rory Truex

The East is Read

By Zichen Wang and Yuxuan Jia

A China newsletter.

Sinobabble

By Edi Obiakpani-Reid

Sinobabble makes it easy to understand the politics and culture of China's past and present to realise its future.

Edi is so deeply knowledgeable of Chinese history. I listen to old episodes of her pod on the way to work.

- Rory Truex

Concurrent

By Afra

Understand the parallel and colliding tech and cultural currents shaping Silicon Valley, China, and beyond.

Afra is one of the best writers I know and is deeply insightful about all things China.

- Rory Truex

Systematic Hatreds

By Paul Musgrave

A personal view of international relations, political science, and academia. Essays about research, teaching, and current events.

Political science commentary with a touch of irreverence

- Rory Truex

Taipology

By Angelica Oung

Hot takes on Taiwan from the Silicon Island’s #1 Neoliberal Shill

Really thoughtful analysis of politics and culture in Taiwan

- Rory Truex

She said Xi said

By Lucy Hornby

Thoughts on China and places between

The Monitor

By China Focus

The Monitor is a newsletter produced by the U.S.-China Perception Monitor, a publication operated by The Carter Center's China Focus initiative.

The good folks at the Carter Center provide great analysis of U.S.-China relations

- Rory Truex

Your Local Epidemiologist

By Katelyn Jetelina

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

Pekingnology

By Zichen Wang

by Zichen Wang

Provides great insights into global affairs from the Chinese perspective

- Rory Truex

Sinocism

By Bill Bishop

Get smarter about China

Bill Bishop is the China watcher's China watcher

- Rory Truex

Undercurrent Events

By Lee Drutman

Deep forces are shaping our democracy. Change happens slowly. Then all at once.

Science Forever

By Holden Thorp

Science and science, neurodiversity. All revenue goes to AAAS and Science.

Resilient Change

By Eric Jackson

Exploration of the ways we can disrupt unjust systems and replace them with just ones to create a resilient, thriving community.

The UnPopulist

By Shikha Dalmia

Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.

Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

The Good Society

By Michael Albertus

How politics can fuel or fail democracy, development, and equality

Here It Comes

By Graham Webster

The deluge in US-China relations, tech and China, & climate uncertainty, from Graham Webster and Transpacifica.

Graham is a great observer of China, U.S.-China relations, and technology

- Rory Truex

The Civic Forum

Recommended by Rory Truex