Hannah Beech
@hkbeech
Wandering Asia. Senior Asia correspondent for @nytimes. Noodles over rice. 毕菡娜, ビーチ花.
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21-02-2014 02:28:01
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A story months in the making with Tom Wilson. We followed the money trail of pig-butchering scams, the billion-dollar criminal industry robbing people across the world. It led to a Chinese national in Thailand with powerful friends among the elite.
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“They don’t even know how to pronounce Myanmar,” said Ms. Aye Chan Mon, about the reception she often receives in Washington. “They think it’s Yemen.”
Fighting to Govern Myanmar, From a Teeny Office in Washington by Hannah Beech
nytimes.com/2023/11/13/wor…
I have had the pleasure of disagreeing with Kaiser Kuo on China issues for some 20 years, including as a regular on the early Sinica podcast. The closure of his and Jeremy Goldkorn’s China Project is a real loss, and this candid thread is useful for grasping the challenges they faced
NEW: A letter obtained by The New York Times shows the State Dept. has approved a $320 million sale of bomb equipment to Israel. The buyer is Rafael, the big arms maker owned by the Israeli defense ministry. The seller is Bethesda-based Rafael USA. Our story: nytimes.com/live/2023/11/0…
'China's Age of Malaise' -- outstanding New Yorker piece on the state of Xi's China. A sort of sequel by Evan Osnos to his book 'Age of Ambition' newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
More than 900 miles from the Chinese mainland, in an area of the South China Sea that an international tribunal has unequivocally determined does not belong to China, cellphones pinged with a message: “Welcome to China.” - Hannah Beech at Mischief Reef nytimes.com/2023/09/23/wor…
A beautiful review of Tahir H. Izgil (tr: Joshua L. Freeman)'s powerful new memoir of the Uyghur genocide (out today) - by Barbara Demick in @nyt: nytimes.com/2023/08/01/boo…