About
I spent over a decade in Taiwan as a journalist and editor, most recently as Supervising Editor at TaiwanPlus, Taiwan’s public English-language broadcaster. I now work from the UK on China, Taiwan and UK–Asia questions, combining Chinese-language source work with data and open-source methods. I built and run Cross-Strait Signal, a bilingual platform that monitors PRC–Taiwan dynamics from both sides of the strait.
Selected work
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Cross-Strait Signal
A bilingual OSINT platform monitoring around 30 Chinese-language sources. Automated classification feeds a human review gate, and destabilising moves from either side register on the same scale.
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Chinese LLM refusal study
A controlled test of Chinese language models on cross-strait news against a Gemini control, run across 15,418 production articles. Refusals tracked the shape of the prompt, not the topic.
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‘All we can hope for is peace’: the view from Kinmen, once the cold war frontline between China and Taiwan
Kinmen islanders, many of whom remember years of bombardment from Chinese forces, on life on the old cold war frontline.
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Whither the Special Relationship
“There is no freedom of thought or of speech in a Britain whose parameters are defined by the minds of American oligarchs.”
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China or the US? For the UK, there is no choice
“Choose between China and the US? The truth is, right now, we can’t live without either.”
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‘Quantum entanglement’: Love song asserts China’s South China Sea claims
“China’s state media spends little time actually thinking about how the message will be received elsewhere. Its major focus is on ensuring that the overall message correctly aligns with the official narrative.”
Experience
- 2026–present Independent Chinese-language research and analysis
- 2026 Output Producer, Al Jazeera English, Doha (fixed-term)
- 2021–2025 News Director / Supervising Editor, TaiwanPlus, Taipei
- 2019–2021 Editor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan)
- 2016–2019 Copy Editor, The China Post, Taipei
Education
- MA Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London
- BA Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham
- PGCE with QTS, Secondary Mandarin, UCL Institute of Education, 2026
Contact
Email ed@emoon.uk or connect on LinkedIn.