David Pierson

@dhpierson · Hong Kong · joined 17 Aug 2009

Correspondent at the @nytimes covering the geopolitics of China. Previously at the @latimes. Hong Kong native. Mets fan. david.pierson@nytimes.com

10 786Followers

5 764Following

3 491Posts total

185.9KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5.1K4 Oct

1.7K25 Oct

175K10 Apr

1.9K

69127 Dec

1.6K11 Feb

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.73%4 Oct

0.30%25 Oct

0.45%10 Apr

0.70%

0.43%27 Dec

0.96%11 Feb

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes75.1%647 in total

Reposts16.5%142 in total

Replies3.0%26 in total

Quotes4.5%39 in total

Bookmarks0.8%7 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

“They really want this to be a source of pain for my family. I have to remind myself it is not my fault, it’s not my family’s fault. The government is trying to destroy my values and the people I love" -- @AnnaKwokFY https://t.co/a8DgoOKiy9 1.6K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 11 Feb 2026 What Went Wrong Before Hong Kong’s Apartment Inferno https://t.co/fEk7Skv2dg 691 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 27 Dec 2025 Good explanation by @ryanl_hass on why Trump can’t just hash it out with Xi over the phone. Chinese diplomacy is painfully scripted. The last person in the world Xi is going to engage with without guardrails is Trump. 1.9K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 10 Apr 2025 1/ Secretary Lutnick’s message is important for setting expectations. Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent a telegram of condolence to George W Bush on September 11, 2001, but beyond that, it is exceedingly rare for a PRC leader to initiate outreach to a US president. (🧵) 175K views · 604 likes · 128 reposts · 14 replies 10 Apr 2025 Bizarre Robert Downey Jr. Deal Offer, Beijing Plot to Buy Taiwan’s Only Broadcast Network: A Hollywood vs. China Case Heads to Court https://t.co/PJ2P04wAMb via @variety 1.7K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 25 Oct 2023 Imagine being told your TikTok-loving 8-year-old son is the reincarnation of a 400-year-old Tibetan Buddhist lama. My story on a Mongolian(-American) family at the heart of a struggle between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Communist Party. https://t.co/MpQQnLbHeE 5.1K views · 18 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies 04 Oct 2023

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