Nithin Coca
Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: social.coop/@ncoca
Contact: nithincoca.com
- Reposted by Nithin CocaThe Country That Cannot Be Named. Hence why #Taiwanese athletes are calling attention to the fact that Taiwan's name is conspicuously absent from the national team outfits they are forced to wear in compliance with IOC rules and pressure from China.
- The flag-bearers for #TeamTaiwan at #Milan2026 are bobsleigh athlete Lin Sin-rong and skater Li Yu-hsiang. The #Taiwanese delegation under the moniker #ChineseTaipei is slated for the 81st entrance spot in the opening ceremony, after Switzerland and before Thailand. www.tpenoc.net/news/milan-w...
- Reposted by Nithin CocaChina is now “bankrolling” Russia’s war in Ukraine providing “60 per cent” of the funds needed by Moscow to continue fighting. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da5539f...
- Pretty tough morning to hear how so many amazing journalist who I respect deeply, at one of the few newsrooms with a presence in #Asia, @washingtonpost.com, are being let go.
- Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
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- Reposted by Nithin Cocaimagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
- Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
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- Reposted by Nithin CocaIsrael killed three Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, including a freelance cameraman who contributed to CBS News. The network's president, Tom Cibrowski, let staff know at a meeting this morning, noting that Abdul Raouf Shaat had just been married. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Nithin CocaEight years ago today, bookseller Gui Minhai was arrested again and later sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Chinese Communist government. Since January 2018, his family has been unaware of his whereabouts and health status. N.B. Gui is a Swedish citizen who was "disappeared" in Thailand.
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- Reposted by Nithin CocaThe Weight of Words For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth. Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
- I've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowledge. thediplomat.com/2026/01/why-...
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- Wonder why this #Indonesia #fire, which I only just read about, didn't get nearly as much attention as the one that happened in #Switzerland a week later. en.antaranews.com/news/397993/...
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- Didn't realize, until today, that the panel I spoke on at @gijn.org, on conducting investigations as a freelancer, was written up in #Chinese! zh.gijn.org/stories/best...
- Reposted by Nithin CocaIf you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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- I freelanced for @equaltimes.bsky.social for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features They were an amazing team, interested in global justice, labor, & humanrights. Most of the stories I wrote, I couldn't have published at any other outlet. So sad to see them go. www.equaltimes.org/as-equal-tim...
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- I'm regularly surprised by the ignorance of many #china #climate experts They fail to understand that China's dominance in critical minerals was with a model that is at odds w/ the tenets of a just transition. Until we challenge #China, we can't make progress dialogue.earth/en/justice/w...
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- My opinion - Foreign media shouldn't publish Chinese government op-eds unless Chinese state media publishes foreign diplomat op-eds. #reciprocity
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- Having passed through both on this trip, I have to say, for transiting, #Taipei #TPE airport beats #Singapore hands down. It's a few things - the more open layout (can walk anywhere), must easier transit security, and, most importantly, much, much friendlier staff and service.
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- Reposted by Nithin CocaAfter becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Nithin CocaInternational media, you can do better than this. "Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
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- Was looking for the #Tibet data in this #China #climate update from @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social And then I realized to my shock that they were using the #Chinese government term, Xizang, in English. A new, embarrassing low www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/pre...
- This press release from this NGO supposedly in the #Philippines is de-facto CCP propaganda w/ buzzwords like " "unstoppable action" "unwavering confidence" etc Go to their website & there's a map with the nine-dash line that cedes 🇵🇭 territory to #Beijing www.paaacs.org/PressCenter/...
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- To those of us following human rights in #Tibet, the #Uyghur regions & illegal rare earth mining in #Laos or #Myanmar the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining & critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition program is no surprise for @codastory.com www.codastory.com/climate-cris...
- China, alone, is calling for the removal of transition minerals from the Just Transition Work Program at #COP30 climate talks. No surprise to me. Amazingly, the civil society call makes this claim; that China is "uniquely positioned to champion a just & equitable approach to transition minerals" 🤯
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- Impressed a Chinese #journalist by understanding the name of her favorite media outlet, a once well-responded investigative magazine, in #Chinese. Bonus points to anyone who can guess what outlet that is.
- Why is @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia? It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, not in line with @greenpeace.org own core tenet - center communities www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/pre...
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- #Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-labor government. Read more in my latest at @equaltimes.bsky.social www.equaltimes.org/long-silence...
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- Very surprised to learn that the far-right wanna dictator of the VVD party, leading in the #Netherlands polls but, thankfully, unlikely to be a part of the next government, is part-Indonesian. Does that, in some way, explain his politics? Via @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/geer...
- In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #WorldExpo, robots dance and an #AI character interacts with guests. But the companies features are sanctioned by the US for #trade or #humanrights= violations. #Chinese tech & the trade war. Read more in @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/osaka-e...
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- Legacy news sources in #Japan aren’t doing their part in engaging younger audiences. I sat down with @japantoday.com to discuss why the new generation is turning to TikTok clips and Line updates instead of mainstream news. japantoday.com/category/spo...
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- An #India-#Japan alliance could prove monumental for the #solar industry. The International Solar Festival at the #OsakaExpo set an optimistic tone for future partnerships to both counter #China & the increasingly anti-solar #US More in @japantimes.co.jp www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...
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- What happens when stakeholders along the #supply chain join forces to eliminate #genderbased violence? Find out how investigations by @4workerrights.bsky.social led to a unique labor impact story in my latest feature for @triplepundit.bsky.social. www.triplepundit.com/story/2025/g...
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- Jane Goodall was one of perhaps a handful of people I've ever heard speak, like the Dalai Lama, who you just feel their presence and aura as someone truly special. Truly was glad I got to be around her in person, once - something I won't ever forget. 🙏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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- As 🇯🇵 Japan's #LNG imports peak, #China 🇨🇳 now dominates #naturalgas imports ⛽. This will have profound implications for #climate & the #energy transition for #Australia & countries in #SoutheastAsia 🌏 My latest for @japantimes.co.jp www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...
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