@nithincoca.com
Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca
Contact: nithincoca.com
@nithincoca.comI think when they're so many are regularly willing to engage or even highlight China's progress without mentioning #humanrights, then yes, it is a valid criticism.
@nithincoca.comStill find it fascinating (and sad) how readily the climate movement will speak up for #Palestine or against #Israel, but give so many excuses to avoid
- Saying anything even remotely critical of #China
- Providing any support for #Tibetans Uyghurs, Hong Kong or #Taiwan.
@nithincoca.comI criticize Japanese companies a lot, but I do like this aspect of Japanese corporate culture - executives taking pay cuts in response to company failures - in this case, actions by subordinates.
Can you even imagine something like this in America?
@khinohmar.bsky.socialReposted by @nithincoca.com🇲🇾 Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, don’t betray your principled past!
Read more here 👇👇👇
kohmar.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Malaysia #ASEAN #anwaribrahim
@pvamplify.bsky.social
@nithincoca.com#Xinjiang Week in #Japan, at the Osaka #WorldExpo was being framed as a celebration of innovation, but the absence of #Uyghur language or any #Islamic symbols tells a different story.
My latest for @mekongreview.com into #China’s overseas propaganda efforts
mekongreview.com/xinjiang-week/
@wpr.bsky.socialReposted by @nithincoca.comChina once went to great lengths to present the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as independent and technocratic.
Installing a Communist Party insider as its president, @nithincoca.com writes, suggests Beijing no longer cares to keep up that image.
@nithincoca.comPadres are cursed.
@xunlingau.bsky.socialReposted by @nithincoca.comZafar Ghani been arrested by Malaysia authorities.
For years I've had messages from Zafar about his precarious situation in Malaysia & that of the Rohingya. Trying to get more support, raise awareness & find solutions, I know I'm not the only one... he's never given up.
@nithincoca.comAre we trading one environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? The reality on the ground at #Japan’s biomass plants dangerous explosions and pollution.
For @mongabay.com, my latest piece on the risks of woody biomass news.mongabay.com/2026/08/conc...
@nithincoca.comEven worse, they still have an office in Beijing.
@nithincoca.comSo here's #Greenpeace, responding to a data release by the Chinese government with...nothing but praise
Zero mention of any issues related to labor or human rights issues in Chinese cleantech exports.
@nateschenkkan.bsky.socialReposted by @nithincoca.comGreat detailed analysis here of recently exposed digital transnational repression targeting the Tibetan diaspora, and how it both builds on growing capacity in China and feeds that capacity for other forms of surveillance, domestic and transnational
@nithincoca.comHeading there tomorrow!
@nithincoca.com@nithincoca.comSome news - I'll be speaking at the virtual tbd/Con organized by Gazzetta next week.
My focus - the scale of digital surveillance and censorship in #Tibet, a relevant topic due to the information blackout after the recent Nepal/Tibet floods.
Details here - free to join ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26
@nithincoca.comAre we trading one environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? Why do #Japan’s biomass plants include dangerous explosions and heavy pollution?
For @mongabay.com, my latest piece unpacks the risks of wood pellets for power news.mongabay.com/2026/08/conc...
@jpak25.bsky.socialReposted by @nithincoca.comMore than a week after the deadly Nepal China floods, very little is known about the dead or missing in Tibet. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal. But it's not new. www.npr.org/2026/09/07/n...
@nithincoca.comAs newsrooms obsess over the latest Trump blunders, what happens to the rest of the world? International journalists are being left behind.
For @objectivejournos.bsky.social my latest unpacks the hidden costs of shrinking foreign reporting budgets objectivejournalism.org/2026/08/u-s-...
@nithincoca.comAlmost never do, except to check hours or some details missing in @openstreetmap.bsky.social or @comaps.app
@ncoca.social.coop.ap.brid.gyReposted by @nithincoca.comSo, #Google will no longer let you see even basic details - like hours - unless you login. Which, of course, I can't since I have no account.
