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Alice Su 蘇奕安
@aliceysu
Senior international correspondent @TheEconomist, previously in China, Taiwan, and the Middle East. [email protected]
London
Joined March 2009
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    Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: economist.com/1843/2025/05/0…
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    As seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing & protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: “Please comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.” m.weibo.cn/status/4755028…
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    Hundreds of Uyghur women lined up for forced IUDs, fathers jailed according to # of children, women sterilized in detention camps w injections & pills against their will, all while the govt promotes Han ppl to have more babies. "It's genocide, full stop."
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    Fresh delivery to our bureau. Happy Monday morning in Beijing...
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    Fantastic ⁦@Reuters⁩ 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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    “不要核酸要吃饭 不要文革要改革 不要封控要自由 不要领袖要选票 不要谎言要尊严 不做奴才做公民”
    今天上午北京四通桥上有人挂出了条幅,在社交媒体疯传。
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    After a few years in China you grow numb to these slogans everywhere. It's striking seeing people's reactions to their translations and realizing how abnormal they actually are
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    We went to Inner Mongolia this week and found incredible courage - Mongol parents, teachers, students, even police fighting for their own language - but also sweeping security crackdown, w targets as young as middle school. Please read @latimes
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    Chengdu: people raise blank sheets of paper (a protest against censorship) and shout, "Give me freedom or give me death"
    成都 望平街 现在 民众举着白纸高喊 不自由 毋宁死
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    News for the new year: this is my last week at the @latimes. I’ve loved & will always be grateful for my time here. Next month I’m joining a team I’ve long admired @TheEconomist as a senior China correspondent. I’ll be based in and also writing about Taiwan! I’m very excited ♥️
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    Beijing: “We all saw that the fire trucks couldn’t get in.. Then the govt said the door was open, they didn’t run. In Korea after the stampede they had so much reporting. Did we have any reporting? No! Our own people died from a man-made disaster. All we had was lies and silence”
    北京 亮马桥 民众发表演讲
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    This is @mare_porter and me in the streets of Zhengzhou yesterday. We were surrounded by an angry crowd shouting things like this is China, get out of China! I tried to de-escalate by “translating” the crowd’s message (Mathias is actually fluent in Chinese)
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    “Let me tell you, THIS is the real Shanghai. Shanghai doesn’t need you guys. Go home.”
    “Det her er Shanghai. Vi har ikke brug for jeres slags her” Hos barberen efter at 城管 forsøgte at lukke stedet (ved at tilkalde politiet), fordi der stod stole på fortovet
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    For years many Uyghurs abroad kept quiet, even as their parents, siblings & spouses disappeared. They did not speak in fear that those who hadn't yet vanished would. But silence didn't protect them. Our story about those hurting most as the Olympics begin: