NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-homehttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myuamhzrys2xI was in Corinth Mississippi last night, where the president stumped in a county he won easily last election.27 Oct 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myuamhzrys2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myscrxee6c2pHere & Now's @wbur.org Scott Tong speaks with Feng, who is an NPR White House correspondent and former China correspondent. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/10/26/our-hearts-burned-for-home26 Oct 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myscrxee6c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myrs3mrg622sTrying something new - my op-Ed in the @washingtonpost.com is based off extensive reporting on Uyghurs in Syria, and Beijing’s chance to break a cycle of violence https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/26/syria-thousands-uyghurs-are-making-home/26 Oct 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myrs3mrg622shttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myqsh64ta22lGorgeous day out at the China Folk House in West Virginia. Years ago I reported from the Tibetan - Catholic community where this house was rescued from a dam project that flooded others https://www.npr.org/2020/12/25/950271725/in-one-of-chinas-rare-catholic-communities-christmas-is-a-colorful-mix-of-custom26 Oct 2026 03:41 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myqsh64ta22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myfjwui4uc2nI wrote earlier this month on LitHub about the complexities of reporting in Syria, as a Chinese American reporter. “I was later to find out…that their antipathy and hostility was not towards Chinese people but to the government of China.” https://lithub.com/on-writing-about-syrias-uyghur-community-as-a-chinese-american/21 Oct 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfjwui4uc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mycvd36bb223"I was worried this person was going to be killed...Then they charged us again, and so then we had to run. I mean, in the video, you hear her say, “Let me die, let me die.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/behind-the-settler-attack-on-palestinians-and-a-washington-post-journalist20 Oct 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mycvd36bb223https://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3myaei52tdc2uI've been listening to Cindy for years and I was very honored to sit down and talk about how @abduwelia.bsky.social and I first came to discover the story and report it, and what Uyghurs in Syria mean for both China and the Middle East. https://www.chinesewhispers.uk/p/how-20000-uyghurs-ended-up-living19 Oct 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3myaei52tdc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxtyhcfnuk2t. @thediplomat.com has featured our new book, Our Hearts Burned For Home, out this week. "Imagine my surprise when I saw Uyghur fighters milling about Syria..and I was later to discover, their role in the civil war had been much more impactful than anyone expected." https://thediplomat.com/2026/10/the-uyghurs-who-fought-in-syrias-civil-war/14 Oct 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtyhcfnuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxrcij5jjc2dHear me out - industrial policy is exciting. And the Trump administration is doing a lot of it. https://www.npr.org/2026/10/10/nx-s1-5992884/trumps-economic-strategy-resemble-similar-policies-in-east-asia13 Oct 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrcij5jjc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxrcfmdv722dBook is out!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrcfmdv722dhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxekl2xxqk2mYou can read an excerpt of the forthcoming Our Hearts Burned For Home, in the China Books Review. "All they had known in Syria was war. War had given them a purpose. Now that war was over. What were they to do next?" https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/08/uyghurs-in-syria/08 Oct 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxekl2xxqk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxekk5asak2mThe Embedded podcast series featuring this reporting and more on the case of Austin Tice is worth a listen [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxekk5asak2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mxejp57xkc2vI went in BBC @newshour.bsky.social to talk about our new book, Our Hearts Burned For Home, on Uyghur fighters in Syria, hitting shelves October 13 (at the 40 min mark) https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1730bn7ctz9whh__;!!Iwwt!SvnxIpeLHpFdVLuDkvoOsltUPDpcJd6DOaWXx8YHDD0TwRW-GRcbDRg_WdTJ472s6QzKngWWdPDbvqE$08 Oct 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxejp57xkc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mx7omfmt3c2f"The staffing shortages are so significant that in many of the FBI's 56 field offices, counterintelligence squads only have 50% to 60% of positions filled. In multiple field offices, the number of squads doing such work has been reduced by half." https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g-s1-145511/fbi-trump-counterintelligence-units-cuts06 Oct 2026 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx7omfmt3c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mwtfnixbps2j“In Chinese, the word for “artificial” is formed by combining the characters for “person” (ren) and “work” (gong), emphasizing something made by human effort rather than set in opposition to nature.” https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/shooting-the-suns/01 Oct 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtfnixbps2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mwtdo6y33k2pVery cool data journalism here https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/we-used-ai-to-find-out-just-how-much-americans-hate-ai-2ca70c5a?mod=politics_lead_story01 Oct 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtdo6y33k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mwqaca75tc2jJust tried this, indeed this is what happens. Some of the lines the model starts hallucinating are quite beautiful. Some are very strange. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqaca75tc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mworb3z6us2cEvan Gershkovish speaking on always being a journalist, even under detention, and grappling with coming back to "normal" life after imprisonment. https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-5152627/journalist-recounts-his-russian-imprisonment-on-false-espionage-charges-in-new-memoir29 Sep 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mworb3z6us2chttps://bsky.app/profile/emilyzfeng.bsky.social/post/3mwoefpwqa22q1/ New from me: Chinese diplomats scrambled up to 90 min before the Xi/Trump visit to the National Archives to stop a Taiwan-related treaty from being shown. ..."an indication of pushback from within the U.S. government against President Trump's warm reception of Xi.." https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-5984989/digital-archives-trump-xi29 Sep 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:yipvolht2oni2hhbwk4ykpsp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoefpwqa22q