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@Telegraph Senior Foreign Correspondent | Recipient of Marie Colvin Award | Tweets: 🌍🌏🌎🎹🎶🥃🍜🧘🏻‍♀️| Then: TPE PEK HKG TYO DCA HNL

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Khorgos, flagship #China - #Kazakhstan Belt & Rd project, has allowed China to reach across the border, kidnapping & chasing after Kazakhs, throwing them in prison. Chinese Kazakhs working in Khorgos also thrown in 're-education' camps #humanrights 👀our doc
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#Wuhan postcard: Kite-flying, #cat on leash smelling 🌸, city skyline along the #Yangtze , and #socialdistancing to the max 🐶🐯 #coronavirus #China
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#Wuhan resident Chen Min, 65, died within 10 days of developing fever, cough. Docs never tested her for #coronavirus . She's not incl in official govt count of 56 dead & suggests scale of problem is *far* greater than #China has acknowledged @Telegraph
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Harvard Medical School research looking at satellite images found that # of cars parked at major #Wuhan hospitals at points last autumn was much higher than preceding yr, suggesting #coronavirus outbreak may have started much earlier previously thought
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A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences stunned geneticists by producing 29 healthy #mouse pups from two female parents with the help of #DNA editing. Next: Monkeys. Future: Humans?! Whoa! #genes
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More #Wuhan postcards: Entrance to Carrefour; makeshift takeout window through metal barrier; makeshift barrier, period - everything plus the kitchen sink; #Communist Party disaster relief tent (these are still everywhere)
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Richard Chan, 48, pepper sprayed & arrested yday by police who were quite rough w the silver-haired local elex candidate. Officer sprayed directly into his eyes, then grabbed him & sprayed at close range again. @Telegraph was there w @_jasmineleung_
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#China 's crackdown on its tiny congregation of #Jews . ~100 practising in a community of ~1,000. That such a small group can attract the #CommunistParty ’s ire shows how far the suppression goes @TelegraphWorld @Telegraph #religiousfreedom #Hanukkah
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The #Yangtze River lit up at night; view from the Hankou side. A sealed path due to #coronavirus . And 2 signs letting everyone know there are no #COVID19 illnesses, fevers etc in this #epidemic -free compound for 30 consecutive days #Wuhan
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#China ’s defence minister at #SLD19 just welcomed all to #Xinjiang to observe their ‘successful’ counter-terrorism policies. I was in #Kashgar v recently during Ramadan & this was our welcome caravan. Spot the internment camp watchtower halfway through. Also kidnapped, harassed
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4 years
My fellow #Wuhan to #Beijing passengers (no social distancing at the train gate 🤷🏻‍♀️) + me continuing to file furiously 😂 (because the news never stops 😲)
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#China ’s #Uighur #Muslims forced to eat pork to break #Ramadan fast in #Xinjiang where millions are being held in internment camps. My dispatch from #Kashgar where @giuliamarchi & I were kidnapped twice and police van tried to slam into us @TelegraphWorld
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Mobility curbs remain: Only 1,000/day allowed #Wuhan - #Beijing via lottery system. @TelegraphWorld went by rail. Below: My ID + #train ticket + negative #coronavirus test results (valid within 7 days) being examined before allowed entry into station
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Upon arrival in #Beijing we were separated into clusters depending on the #city district you will do 14d #quarantine in - either at home or a government-arranged facility depending what your housing compound allows. Hazmat suits repeating “Haidian District,” calling for people
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"Despite Beijing’s attempts to cover up the true scale of the outbreak in #China , British scientists are now warning Downing Street that the CCP has probably downplayed the number of cases by a factor of 15 to 40" -Con Coughlin @Telegraph #coronavirus
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4 years
This translation cracks me up every time. “一米线” (yimi xian) = 1 meter line BUT “米线” (mixian) = rice noodle. So auto-translate spits out “please wait outside a noodle” instead of “please wait outside the 1m line.” Dunno abt you but I never mind waiting outside FOR NOODLES 🍜
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Dog in #Wuhan basking in the sun after months of lockdown isolation. Tens of thousands of people expected today to leave the city, ground zero of the #coronavirus pandemic, as curbs loosen. Some restrictions remain w residents subject to housing complex rules re: going outside
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Man in #China quarantine who can't afford cost told he can't leave & health code will remain red until he pays up. Obvi quarantine/red code can't go out to work. Offers to work off debt at hotel but hazmatter says not poss. End of video – electricity out & not giving him meals
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被拉去强制自费隔离,出不起隔离费就停电、停送饭,是要让人死在隔离点?以后也许会有隔离贷款服务。
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Also sign on door informing my neighbours of #quarantine situation. Must report temp 2x/day. So send recs for recipes, books, movies, podcasts. Have already organised all cabinets.. When I’m out, you can be sure I will be🏃🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤾🏻‍♀️⛹🏻‍♀️🏇🏻⛰🏝🚲🙌 (Below throwback to #Beijing hike)
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4 years
UK MPs have launched an inquiry into detention camps in #China 's Xinjiang province, likening them to the Nazi genocide of the Second World War @Telegraph
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4 years
At my door there is now an alarm 🛎! If I open, it pings person responsible for those in home q in bldg. I know bc I put my trash out the 1st evening (for collection from my door daily 8a) & immediately got msg about opening door. I explained - was fine - but wow! In real-time!
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Sophia Yan
5 years
Yday, covering protests in #HongKong . App 12 full-gear riot police were doing random ID check. I & other media rushed over when 3 young men were stopped. One officer kept saying I was blocking the road when I was clearly on the sidewalk. Not rly sure why he was so fixated on that
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2 years
Pro-Beijing activists are offering £10,000 on social media for the addresses of dissidents living in the UK incl Simon Cheng, Nathan Law. Met Police have launched an investigation. Story . @Telegraph
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Then we were shuttled to register personal details - down to which train seat you were in - before being escorted in small groups straight to our #quarantine doors. All arrivals #Beijing - domestic or international (tho #China banning foreigners from entry) - must q for 14 days
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Above 📸 tidbits from a fascinating 10 days in #Wuhan as the city of 11m slowly lifted lockdowns. Not quite normal - people struggling to understand what happened, small biz owners barely staying afloat. Also kids in #hazmats (didn’t even know mini suits were manufactured..)
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‘We’ll never really know’: Inside #Wuhan as city at heart of #coronavirus outbreak tries to return to normal. Adding to fears the #death toll may be far higher than reported, crematorium workers spoke of extraordinary increases in their workload @Telegraph
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Another tiny tribe — #China ’s last nomadic #reindeer herders, only a few dozen #Ewenkis — coming under Communist Party suppression. My @TelegraphWorld dispatch from -40C weather + waist-high snowdrifts near the #Russian border in the far north of China
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3 years
Listings on @airbnb in #China explicitly ban Uyghurs, Tibetans, people from HK, Macau, Taiwan. Rights groups say this runs counter to Airbnb's nondiscrimination policy that supports "inclusion and respect." More @TelegraphWorld
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4 years
Semi-break from #coronavirus tweets: My mother insists on sending me screenshot updates on the health situation in #China bc she “thought maybe u cant get a real news” (also she clearly means inside, not outside China) #chinglish #ohasianmoms
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Our exclusive dispatch aboard the #US aircraft carrier sailing through the #SouthChinaSea to combat #China 's growing aggression in the region #waterwars #geopolitics @TelegraphWorld @Telegraph
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Foreign countries that dare to “bully” #China will see “their heads bashed bloody against the Great Wall of Steel forged by over 1.4 billion people,” said leader Xi Jinping in landmark speech for ruling Communist Party’s centenary. Not mincing words...
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Undercover cops dressed as protesters yday shot 2 live rounds as warning. Police also arrested alleged protesters found w hammers, spray paint, fake press passes. So police going as protesters & protesters as journos. As a journo dressed as a journo, this makes me NERVOUS AF.
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@Telegraph To be clear: Her symptoms were consistent w the new virus infection though docs at 3 hospitals in #Wuhan kept sending her home w basic cold meds, even when a CT scan showed shadows in her lungs – not enough beds. She was finally placed in isolation Jan 15 & died 6 hours later
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Listen @Telegraph 's new documentary podcast " #HongKong Silenced." Come along with me to explore how lives were turned upside down since the #nationalsecuritylaw came into force – exactly one year ago today. Follow on your podcast app!
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Sophia Yan
5 years
Doesn’t matter how long I #live #abroad - funny #translations get me every time. I present: “Grape Preserved Fruit Centers Covered In Smooth Lactic Acid Bacteria EXTRAORDINARILY DELICIOUS Lactic Acid Bacteria Grapes” #lostintranslation #chinese #english #bacteria #grapes
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. @Telegraph is in Guangzhou, Guangdong province - the 2nd hardest hit w the #coronavirus sweeping #China - after Hubei province. Body temperature checkpoints are here in the airport as officials try to screen for suspected cases - but few travellers afoot
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Work news‼️ From Taiwan 🇹🇼 to Turkey 🇹🇷… After 11 years in Asia — mostly in Hong Kong + Beijing, w stints in Tokyo + Taipei — I’m excited to take up a new post as senior foreign correspondent @Telegraph based in Istanbul! (Ok so technically can still be in Asia if I wish 😆)
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#China confirms 1,975 #coronavirus cases and 56 deaths - current as of midnight Sat local time. US arranging 230-seat charter flight today to evacuate American diplomats, citizens. The French are using a coach bus. Brits advised to leave, unclear if UK govt arranging transport
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‘I didn’t think I would ever be let out’: How #China brutally tortured Simon Cheng Man-kit, a #UK consulate worker, over #Britain ’s role in #HongKong . Details of harrowing detention made public for the first time @Telegraph @TelegraphWorld
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@Telegraph People are slipping through the cracks partly because #China 's healthcare system - on a regular day – already struggles to support the population of 1.4 billion. With a major health crisis, the strain is even more visible.
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@Telegraph @Dali_Yang Big issue: Ms Chen's family wasn't told until after she died that she was contagious (and was only quarantined in her last few hours alive). Another family member has developed symptoms.
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“One minute felt like one year” - life inside #China ’s #Xinjiang internment camps. Spoke w 8 former detainees - many released late last yr and fled to #Kazakhstan in Jan - giving us most updated picture of conditions and treatment inside @TelegraphWorld
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@Telegraph Top of my story @Telegraph :
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Zhang Hai, 50, files 1st lawsuit in #China against govt that seeks restitution for #coronavirus pandemic cover-up. "If the govt didn’t cover up the disease in the early stages, my father wouldn’t have died...What they did amounts to murder" @Telegraph
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#China says holding @Huawei ’s Meng violates human rights. She is suspected of fraud & while that remains to be proven, there is due process. Meanwhile China has banned 2 American kids from leaving. Is that not a human rights violation?
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3 years
Happy Monday from #Beijing , where after weeks of #smog (150-300 AQI), we are now greeted by a #sandstorm , making the #airquality so bad it’s off-index... 9000+!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️ PS #London is 25 AQI, #NewYork 36 #pollution #breathe #air
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🎥 From our trip to #Kashgar , #Xinjiang to investigate #China ’s crackdown on #Uighurs - US officials est 3 mln held in internment camps. A look at the changes over the yrs from a culturally rich region to one filled w fear. Minders followed us everywhere
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@Telegraph Doctors later told her family she had “that” type of pneumonia, “highly likely” from a coronavirus infection. “Those words are very obvious hints to patients and relatives, but there are no written records or reports,” Ms Chen’s stepson, Kyle Hui, 40, told The Telegraph.
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Harmonized by @LinkedIn ... seems my profile is now censored in #China . But can't get clear response from LinkedIn on what exactly on my profile is considered "prohibited content." Anyone else getting anything like this?
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This is the kind of signage at #HongKong protest. Students not violent - dont think they need CY reminding peace http://t.co/gDPD0zt8cW
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@Telegraph And a bit more:
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6 years
Just guffawed out loud at Xi's line in his Shanghai speech at #China 's International Import Expo (now): "Openness has become a trademark of China." What irony! What gall! #trade
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How #China is seeking to influence global public understanding of Xi, Beijing etc – by controlling foreign production firms that then make slick propaganda films about China w no mention of human rights abuses. @Telegraph investigation
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HOME IN THE #US FOR FIRST TIME IN 2.5 YEARS 🙌 Yes, I will return to #Beijing , but for now I’m gonna relish being in the land of the free, home of the brave 🇺🇸🤣 This thread will be occasional musings about re-entry into my own country which has changed dramatically in this time
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"They send cars to follow me, to intimidate me," @JimmyLaiApple told @Telegraph in July. But "if I leave I would disgrace myself and undermine the democratic movement. I would be a fool to leave.... I will be here in #HongKong until the last day.”
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Our report today on the arrest of Jimmy Lai and other media professionals for @TelegraphWorld led by @sophia_yan with additional reporting from @_jasmineleung_ + myself.
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56 cannons being fired 70 times in #Beijing right now - representing #China 's 56 ethnic groups in celebration of 70 years of Communist Party rule. Minorities tho typically not treated v well w many, many Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities are in Xinjiang "re-education" camps
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Meet Lao Mao (aka “Old Cat”) the hero rescuing #pets 🐶🐱🐸🐥🐍🐢 in Wuhan, the epicentre of the #coronavirus outbreak, for stranded owners who can’t get back home. Your heartwarming #weekend read ❤️ in the midst of virus news 😷🤢 by @YiyinZ1 @niccijsmith
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What #Hamas ’s secret global investment portfolio looks like. These property assets in Turkey are part of int’l network that US govt says is funnelling funds to Hamas, making senior leaders 💵 My 1st @Telegraph investigation since moving to Istanbul 2wksago
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3 years
And watch here - stay tuned for more to come from @Telegraph @TelegraphWorld investigation in Xinjiang.🎥📸 @HubeLorenz
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Sophia Yan
4 years
. @Huawei accused of “deeply sinister” attempt to infiltrate #UK universities by hiring network of “campus ambassadors." Job ads seeking students who would “spread #Huawei goodwill." Huawei recently banned from UK 5G following US sanctions #China @Telegraph
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🙏 to those who hv heard me moan on deadline!😂 Big 🙏🙏 @TelegraphWorld @jswinch for always supporting my work. An even bigger 🙏🙏🙏 to all those who welcomed me into their lives to tell me abt the best & the worst - so I cld capture their stories for the world💛 #journalismrocks
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The Marie Colvin Award 2020 is awarded to @Telegraph China correspondent @sophia_yan – judges said she has a “tenacity and seriousness of purpose that Marie Colvin would have admired” #BJA2020
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@Telegraph @Dali_Yang Also: New diagnostic testing kits were set out Jan 16, which made it easier to confirm cases. But those are now running out, along w other med supplies. #China has sent 450 military docs to Wuhan. Goes back to buckling health system. Perhaps govt will accelerate planned reforms
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Worker tells @Telegraph ~5,000 bodies for urgent cremation at *just* ONE of eight crematoriums in Wuhan. #China says its official death toll is 3,300+. People may have died from other illnesses, but 5k is a staggering figure regardless
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2 years
Spotted: #Taiwan #tourism ads in Victoria station where @Telegraph HQ is located #London
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#Xenophobia a growing problem as #China sees increase in imported #coronavirus cases - except #Beijing conveniently fails to draw attention to detail that 90% such illnesses are Chinese nationals returning home @TelegraphWorld
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My local grocery store in #Beijing now has these facial recognition temperature scanners. Upon registering me, the machine says “normal #temperature , normal temperature.” #coronavirus #pandemic #China
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@Telegraph It's unclear why Ms Chen was never tested. There was a major political event thru Jan 17, possible local officials wanted to avoid trouble during that time, says @Dali_Yang
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Reflections on covering #China over the last decade before I got turfed out as tensions rose... Tried to write pithy tweet but have too many things to say. Even my long dispatch isn't enough space. But it's a start... Read here: #pressfreedom
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Sophia Yan
10 years
Exhausted protesters resting. Nearing midnight here. #OccupyCentral #UmbrellaRevolution #HongKong http://t.co/ZgeDWhiHlK
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Ancestors of those in #China claiming Jewish heritage – prob merchants from Persia – settled >1,000 yrs ago in Kaifeng, then a bustling imperial capital during Northern Song Dynasty. Through dynasties, wars, natural disasters, Cultural Revolution, they kept their history alive
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#HongKong protesters create a peaceful human chain tonight, calling for attention to a broader pro-democracy movement on the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, when ~2m people formed a human chain of 650km to protest against Soviet rule
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BBC's @TheJohnSudworth & his family were followed by plainclothes goons all the way through the airport as they left #China over safety concerns. Surveillance/harassment of foreign journos here has become routine - even when on their way out #mediafreedom
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Sophia Yan
4 years
American violinist Yi-Wen Jiang blasted by Chinese state media for his anti-Communist Party views... & loses his job, in the US. Complicated story on fallout from Chinese govt pressuring artists, athletes, academics etc to avoid comments critical of China
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Rows of riot police...but where are the protesters? They’re moving super fast!! We canvas the area - blocked off by police, loads of press milling, looking for action before turning back & telling police that we can’t find them either🤷🏻‍♀️One officer mutters: “motherf*cker!”
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My mom keeps texting me about Covid developments in #China , especially in #Beijing , to make sure I’m up on the news... and all I can say is “I know bc I’m covering the news” 🤣👩🏻‍💻
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Sophia Yan
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Uncle Xi, Chairman of Everything, Mao 2.0, Steamed Bun Xi Chinese leader Xi Jinping has many names, but what do we really know about him? How has #China changed with him at the helm? Come find out with me in How To Become A Dictator – a new podcast from @Telegraph , coming soon
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Sophia Yan
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Started as a cub reporter in #Washington when @BarackObama @JoeBiden took office in 2009. Here’s a fun snap from ages ago... Whatever your politics, #America sadly remains deeply divided - I hope that we can find a way to bridge those differences
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Protesters today turned energies toward pulling each other out of despair as some entertained thoughts of #suicide . 3 have already killed themselves in recent weeks. An adorable group offering free hugs has gathered at Admiralty MTR next to hunger strikers #hongkong
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Economists are very worried about #China 's stock market http://t.co/h22d95ehGD @CNNMoney http://t.co/9IcFcIoCuD
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Happy #Valentine ’s Day from #snowy , #coronavirus -hit #China ! Or in #emoji form: ❤️😷👀☃️❄️🦠🤢🤯🤪🤷🏻‍♀️ (I swear I’m smiling under the mask) LOVE, SOPHIA
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A painting previously owned by Chinese businesswoman Whitney Duan (disappeared by the Chinese state years ago) is appaz now on auction in Beijing.....
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2 years
Coincidentally dressed today in @Telegraph teal which means i match my business cards 🤣
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#HongKong teacher flies 3000 miles from Afghanistan to join pro-democracy protests http://t.co/4v127tZajH @CNNMoney http://t.co/7ZcewKQAwG
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How #China forces #Xinjiang Muslims into slavery after torturing them in 're-education’ camps. Sometimes agreeing to work - for little or no pay - is a condition for release from detention camps. More in @Telegraph @TelegraphWorld Xinjiang series:
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Pressure now renewed under Chinese leader Xi Jinping's campaign against foreign influence, unsanctioned religions - all part of push to 'Sinicise' faith in #China . But the Kaifeng #Jews are a resilient bunch - as I discovered on a recent visit
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Sophia Yan
4 years
Loads of lines outside banks, telecoms shops as people sort presumably *lots* of backed-up errands
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Sophia Yan
3 years
No #Torah ? No problem! They buy translated #Bibles , read the Old Testament (more or less same as Torah) and disregard the New Testament. Communication happens in code re: #Sabbath gatherings. #Kippahs are hidden away in secret locations
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Sophia Yan
3 years
#Wuhan 1yr since lockdown came into place in pix. Here’s an open air mall by East Lake:
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Sophia Yan
5 years
#China defence minister Wei Fenghe’s response to me when I press for PLA to recognise #TiananmenSquare crackdown “How can we say that China did not handle the Tiananmen incident well?...The central government took measures to stop that turbulence” #SLD19 #Tiananmen30 #humanrights
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