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James Millward 米華健

2 years

Xinjiang Syllabus: a short list of key readings on the crisis in Xinjiang / East Turkestan:

Xinjiang Syllabus: Key readings and resources on the repression of Uyghurs and other non-Han…

Here is an intentionally short list of key readings, evidence and resources regarding the crisis in Xinjiang / East Turkestan. See the link…

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Worth reading: especially note Fair’s point that 80-90% of US investment in Afghanistan ended up back in US economy, siphoned by contractors

Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People

Washington ignored Islamabad funding and supplying the Taliban. Now Afghans are paying the price.

foreignpolicy.com

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Xinjiang goods still on the supermarket shelves! It’s a good thing no one in America can read Chinese.

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Swedish singer Zara Larsson ends collaboration with Huawei, declares support to Uighurs | Daily Sabah

Swedish singer Zara Larsson ends collaboration with Huawei, declares support to Uighurs

Swedish singer Zara Larsson announced Tuesday that she had ended her collaboration with China's Huawei to promote its smartphones, saying China 'is not...

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Apple trying to water down Uyghur Forced Labor act in back room Senate lobbyings. They should be yelling at Chinese partners and administrations that are entangling them in Xinjiang atrocities. ⁦ @Apple ⁩ , how much concentration camp is ok for you?

Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China

Apple wants to water down key provisions of the bill, which would hold U.S. companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor, according to two congressional staffers.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

It’s true that searches in Chinese on Twitter for names of Chinese cities where demonstrations are happening are flooded with girlie ads. Top hits for “Shanghai” 上海：

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Unique and horrifying new source about detention in Xinjiang. Firsthand account, with video, of conditions in a detention center in Kucha and under quarantine during the pandemic from @BBCWorld @TheJohnSudworth and @globeandmail

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Disturbing news from AAS2022 (Association of Asian Studies conference, this past weekend) that PRC-based scholars were blocked from participating by their government. Some gave "medical reasons" as reason for not joining on Zoom. The extent of this is not yet clear, but broad

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Second half of this, crowd call and response saying “liberate Xinjiang,” “Liberate all China.” 说的是”解放”还是”解封”？

Eva Rammeloo

@eefjerammeloo

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‘Down with the party! Down with Xi Jinping!’ Free Xinjiang!’

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Complete and chilling FP summary of what we know about detention, torture, forced labor and birth suppression of Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang. Authors are lawyers, explain how this fits UN genocide definition (not a complex argument to make: its patent)

The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang

The United States needs to formally acknowledge the scale of the atrocities.

foreignpolicy.com

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@JimMillward

5 years

Uyghur man in Shenzhen writes that police are installing video cameras inside his house. He’s under no legal suspicion; police told him they are implementing “national policy” ie collective race-based ethnicity based in-home surveillance

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The flaws in the argumentative logic are so cringe-worthy, but also so telling. I've been trying to articulate the ironies and problems with current PRC whataboutism over racial, indigenous issues (next)

Hua Chunying 华春莹

@SpokespersonCHN

4 years

#Mississippi in 1908 🆚 #Xinjiang in 2015 A shotgun and several hounds 🆚 smiles and harvests. Forced labor?

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@JimMillward

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I testified before the @HouseForeign Affairs Committee about oppression of Uyghurs before Republicans expelled Rep. Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN from it. She was best prepared of any of them, and spoke strongly against Chinese Islamophobia and oppression of marginalized peoples. But

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This news that Uyghur folklorist Rahile Dawut was given a life sentence reders absolutely ridiculous any PRC claim that its oppression in the Uyghur region is about terrorism, job creation or poverty. (a thread)

The Dui Hua Foundation - Life Sentence for Professor Rahile Dawut Confirmed

According to a source in the Chinese government, Professor Rahile Dawut (راھىلە داۋۇت, 热依拉 · 达吾提), an acclaimed Uyghur intellectual and expert on Uyghur folklore and traditions, is serving a life...

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

10 months

A measure of how radically Xi regime wants to Han-wash history: French museum told they couldn’t say “Genghis Khan,” or even “Yuan dynasty”!

China's Mongolian culture wars backfire in France

How Beijing tried to suppress an exhibit on Genghis Khan's legacy

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

University of Oslo is hosting the 6/4 Tiananmen Pillar of Shame (formerly in Hong Kong). That’s the University rector speaking about free speech, student activism. What US University today would host this art?

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

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Some thoughts for how to try to think about and report the story of the 11-24 Urumchi fire and wave of protests across PRC opposing zero-Covid policies (a thread).

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@JimMillward

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Excellent graphic how CCP is gratuitously destroying Islamic architecture all over its territory in China and Central Asia. Islam has been in China for over a millennium. In the past few years, Xi decided it’s a problem that needs solving with bulldozers.

How China is tearing down Islam

Thousands of mosques have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islamic culture spreads

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@JimMillward

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What’s happening in Xinjiang is genocide

Opinion | What’s happening in Xinjiang is genocide

New reports show China is committing atrocities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@JimMillward

4 years

Quite a remarkable development: Pompeo has revoked the designation of East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist organization.

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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. 2nd edition is out in UK and Europe. ⁦⁦ @ColumbiaUP ⁩ will publish in the US. Covers history of the Uyghur Region up to 2020.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

5 years

One remarkable take-away from the secret Xinjiang Papers is how CCP authorities referred to the program with the word "concentration" 集中 from the very beginning. Chinese officials were indignant when foreign critics called these "concentration camps" but it's their own word!

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

If anyone still thinks the genocidal policies in Xinjiang against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other natives of the region is about "extremism" please listen to this story:

Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang

Being hit, locked in a dark room and forced to hold a stress position — two small Uyghur children recount abusive experiences in boarding school in Xinjiang, where they also lost their mother tongues.

www.npr.org

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

5 years

I’ve been saying this for a while. HK, XJ, Taiwan, and Tibet are all imperial / colonial legacy issues of Qing empire transition to Mandarin-speaking Han-centric nation state. The issues are heating up because current CCP is forcing mandarin-Han nationalist conformity.

Catie Lilly

@catielila

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If only we'd look further, the #HKProtests make clear the PRC's colonial impulses in Tibet, Xinjiang, & #Taiwan . CCP imperialism is intersectional; our analyses must be too. It is insufficient to reject the CCP gaze when it comes to HK but adopt it for these other places.

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James Millward 米華健

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1. One of the most compelling, disturbing and informative accounts so far from the Xinjiang concentration camp victim. It convincingly confirms several things:

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@JimMillward

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We were proud to host Nathan Law at Georgetown a couple years ago, along with Agnes Chow. No feelings were hurt, and several Chinese students attended the event. This CSSA letter is extraterritorial persecution, a violation of academic freedom and maybe of Chicago's honor code:

Nathan Law 羅冠聰

@nathanlawkc

3 years

1. Last week I was invited to attend a guest series at UChicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. By then, I did not realize that the UC Chinese Students and Scholars Association(CSSA) protested the invitation and accuse me of “hurting” their feelings with all the disinformation.

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I've been sanctioned by China – but that won't stop me speaking out over Xinjiang | Uighurs | The Guardian

I've been sanctioned by China – but that won't stop me speaking out over Xinjiang

The evidence is clear: a genocide against the Uighurs is in progress. Britain must not put trade before human rights, says Helena Kennedy QC

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

now that GOP displays similar Islamophobia and racism, and kicking out a Black and Muslim member, I can't take them seriously about China and won't waste my time testifying before that committee under current leadership. They make it impossible for US to criticize China.

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James Millward 米華健

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Proud to announce the publication in the Chicago Silk Roads series of Cheng, Bulag and Selden’s headlining new book about the Cultural Revolution in Mongolia (thread)

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@JimMillward

4 years

Chinese President blocks Facebook, and Facebook blocks the US President.

China Xinhua News

@XHNews

4 years

#BREAKING : Facebook temporarily blocks U.S. President Donald Trump from posting after the president's supporters stormed the Capitol

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

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Here's what my section of the core history class in the Masters in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown read this semester.

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Excuse me. Taiwan has universal healthcare. Pro-LQBTQ. Strong Environmental concerns. It’s the most progressive state in East Asia, by many accounts. Plus super-educated. Progressives should flock to support Taiwan.

Scott Simon 史國良

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Yes, one can be a Leftist and support Taiwan. Su Beng spent most of his life as a Marxist supporter of Taiwan's self-determination.

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James Millward 米華健

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Here is my critique of our approach to teaching modern #Chinesehistory over the past several decades. It began as a review of Klaus Mühlhahn's textbook, but I don't spare myself for occluding imperialism, colonialism in LIC, PRC

We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: we have lazily repeated false…

A review of Klaus Mühlhahn, Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Harvard University Press, 736 pp, £31.95, January 2019…

link.medium.com

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@JimMillward

4 years

Academics, please RT widely and raise concerns with your campus authorities. We cannot make a company so integral to our teaching if it engages in PRC censorship—and also apparently spying. There are alternatives to Zoom.

Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law”

The company's ties to China are under growing scrutiny

www.axios.com

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

Here's "Xinjiang Syllabus: Key readings and resources on the repression of Uyghurs and other non-Han peoples in Xinjiang." A short list of books, articles and resources for those wanting to learn about the on-going crisis regarding the Uyghur Region.

Xinjiang Syllabus: Key readings and resources on the repression of Uyghurs and other non-Han…

Here is an intentionally short list of key readings, evidence and resources regarding the crisis in Xinjiang / East Turkestan.

link.medium.com

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@JimMillward

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Xinjiang crisis began with a revision of textbooks, reversing established historical points. 昨日新疆，今日香港

In These New Textbooks, Hong Kong Was Never a British Colony (Published 2022)

The books are part of China’s effort to instill a particular historical narrative and to stress patriotic education in a city where a pro-democracy movement was crushed.

www.nytimes.com

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@JimMillward

4 years

Disney CFO said they filmed Milan in Xinjiang” to accurately depict some of the unique landscape and geography for this historic period drama.” But XJ was not under Chinese rule when film set. This was not historically accurate.

Disney Wanted to Make a Splash in China With ‘Mulan.’ It Stumbled Instead. (Published 2020)

A political controversy over a filming location was a rare blunder for one of the world’s savviest companies in dealing with China.

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Mulan is not originally a story about a patriotic Chinese woman, nor a story about self-sacrifice to defend one’s country. Rather, it's a commentary on the fruitlessness of war against people who are more like oneself than different. via @aasasianstudies

More Hun than Han: Reading the Tabghach "Ballad of Mulan" in 2020 - Association for Asian Studies

By James Millward Mulan is not originally a story about a patriotic Chinese woman. It is not a story about self-sacrifice to defend one’s country. It is not a thrilling tale of martial valor. It is,...

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@JimMillward

5 years

CCP seems to be planning imminently to execute the former president of Xinjiang University, Tashpolat Tiyip. Tiyip, a geographer with many scientific articles, holds an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne. Amnesty International has a call to action:

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State Dept determination, 1/19/2021, that PRC policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Region comprise genocide and crimes against humanity is important. Below, first, essentials, then I'll discuss Pompeo's lies in the statement (a thread for the record) 1/22

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So a movie CAN make money, even without erasing ROC and Japanese flags from a bomber jacket.

'Top Gun: Maverick' grosses $124 million, making it Tom Cruise's best domestic opening weekend

"Top Gun: Maverick" soared to $124 million during its opening weekend, earning Tom Cruise his highest domestic debut.

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We should see the GOP bandwagoning on the complaint by a former employee of @thechinaproj as part of a broader shift, or lurch, in US politics to a point where even to suggest having anything to do with China ("engagement") or PRC people is now considered suspicious (thread)

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Biden's team might help him smooth the messaging re. China and rights. Crimes against humanity are not a "Chinese" cultural norm. Xi's ethnic assaults, TW bullying violate Chinese cultural norms, too. There are not US values vs. "Chinese" values. There are human values.

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@JimMillward

2 years

Sadly, even Ukraine abstained on the UN resolution to debate the UN report on crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

11 months

I call PRC "PRC." "China," to me, is a geographical and cultural term, similar to "Europe." There have been many states in China over time. Qing rule extended well beyond geographical China. When Qing fell, multiple nations struggled to emerge: ROC, Mongolia, Tibet...

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️

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at this rate will we soon be seeing "Zhongguo" as the official name of the country in languages that use latin alphabet? (c.f. recent examples of Türkiye and Bharat)

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I’m increasingly thinking that we should view the XJ atrocities as a new, crueler, Cultural Revolution, targeting non-Han of XJ. CCP has gone crazy and paranoid, is attacking its own loyal party member cadres, demands compliance with insanity.

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@JimMillward

5 years

NO screening of passengers from Europe this evening at Dulles tonight, apparently. I guess keeping hundreds of us packed together for two hours last night was just for show. TSA didn’t even collect med forms passengers had filled out.

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@JimMillward

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Hey, anybody use WhatsApp? A reminder that many of the 100s of thousands of Uyghurs and Kazakhs tortured and interned in Xinjiang camps were taken because they had WhatsApp on their phones. That’s what it takes to be branded an extremist. Enjoy the Olympics! @Olympics

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@JimMillward

5 months

In this book I give steppe by steppe instructions on how to erect a yurt encampment.

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In this newly published piece, I sum up the emerging (and dramatic) revision of the old narrative of Qing imperial and Chinese history. If you are teaching, taking a course, or writing on "modern China," pls read / assign it--if only to argue with me!

The Qing Conception of Strategic Space

The question of how the Qing empire conceived of its strategic space—or, rather, failed to do so correctly—is where the field of modern Chinese history began. In textbooks, popular accounts, and...

strategicspace.nbr.org

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@JimMillward

5 years

China grows 20-30% of the world’s cotton, and 75-80% of that comes from Xinjiang. The Production Construction Corps, which grows most of that cotton on state farms, also builds and operates concentration camps. It’s good to avoid Xinjiang cotton — and there’s a shitton of it.

James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

5 years

Cotton On and Target Australia stop buying cotton from Xinjiang over human rights concerns - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Hilton (Hampton) Hotel to be built on site of recently demolished mosque in Khotan (Hotan) Xinjiang, one of thousands of religious buildings wiped out in recent CCP cultural erasure campaign. Maybe not a good look for @HiltonHotels ?

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@JimMillward

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CCP continues its hamfisted campaign to impose the northern Chinese Han dialect upon the children of a diverse continent by denigrating & eliminating (rather than complementing) education in their native languages. Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, now Mongolia

Chinese authorities face widespread anger in Inner Mongolia after requiring Mandarin-language...

Activists say Beijing is beginning to roll back Mongolian culture and identity, much like it has with Tibetans and Uighurs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@JimMillward

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Sure Elon approves of all this free speech.

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Media organizations should not doubly transcribe non-Chinese names of non-Han peoples when Romanizing them, but should transcribe just once, from the original script. 1/5

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For non-Chinese speakers: Vicky Xu authored a devastating report on international corporations using forced Uyghur labor. Chinese-language trolls' orchestrated campaign against her says "back in high school she drank, smoked cigarettes and flirted. She's clearly not reliable!"

巴丢草 Bad ї ucao

@badiucao

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Another organized campaign from CCP is targeting brilliant researcher and journalist Vicky Xu @xu_xiuzhong solidarity with my friend Vicky 💪

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WTA and lady tennis greats (and some male players) have more balls than the NBA.

Serena Williams

@serenawilliams

3 years

I am devastated and shocked to hear about the news of my peer, Peng Shuai. I hope she is safe and found as soon as possible. This must be investigated and we must not stay silent. Sending love to her and her family during this incredibly difficult time. #whereispengshuai

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Read the chilling leaked documents in which Chinese Communist party talks about eradicating thought viruses in Uyghurs and Kazakhs by interning them by the 100s of thousands in "concentration education" camps.

Document: What Chinese Officials Told Children Whose Families Were Put in Camps (Published 2019)

This document, part of 403 pages obtained by The New York Times, tells Chinese officials in Xinjiang how to explain the disappearance of parents and families detained in camps built to hold Muslim...

www.nytimes.com

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“2.4% of Taiwan citizens consider themselves to be Chinese and not Taiwanese, according to a poll by National Cheng Chi University published this summer.” And less than half of that 2.4% favor unification with authoritarian China.

Tsai says Taiwan will not bow to Chinese pressure

President speaks day after Xi calls for Taiwan's unification with China

asia.nikkei.com

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@JimMillward

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What’s sad about the latest CCP propaganda barrage about terrorism in Xinjiang is how they completely miss the point. The 1-2 million people they put in camps are NOT terrorists, the documents make that explicit. So terrorism is irrelevant. It’s collective punishment.

Spokesperson发言人办公室

@MFA_China

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6-year-old boy forced to learn to shoot and bomb by ETIM. Some western media turn blind to truth but chase after rumors. Where is CONSCIENCE, JUSTICE and OBJECTIVENESS? @CGTNOfficial

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Big thread. As I’ve been tweeting for months, the fact that XPCC runs concentration camps and prisons, promotes Han settlement and grows 1/3 China’s cotton means ALL Chinese and apparel is potentially linked to the Uyghur internment, forced labor, birth suppression complex

Eva Dou

@evadou

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So we crunched some numbers & the Chinese cotton grower XPCC sanctioned by Treasury produces 7.6% of the world’s cotton & 1/3 of China’s. Will be v complex for US co.’s to figure out their supply chains by the Sept 30 deadline.

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Apparently cartoons are worse than concentration camps.

Uyghur Human Rights Project

@UyghurProject

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Pakistan PM @ImranKhanPTI speaks out against Islamophobia in Europe, fails to mention genocide against Uyghurs.

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Now, in spite of everything, some companies have affirmed their intention to keep sourcing cotton from Xinjiang: MUJI, Hugo Boss, FILA and ASICS. Links to their statements here:

Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region Warns Corporations Not to Trade their Human...

March 26, 2021 WORLDWIDE — As global fashion brands face commercial retaliation in China over their statements against the use of forced Uyghur labour, the advocates leading the campaign against...

uhrp.org

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@JimMillward

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Brand new paper I co-wrote with Dahlia Peterson. Lots of detailed info on tech firm involvement with Xinjiang crisis, and long slate of recommendations for US, other countries, and China regarding ending the crisis and addressing its causes.

China’s system of oppression in Xinjiang: How it developed and how to curb it

Chinese Communist Party policies towards Xinjiang have increased colonial development, further eroded Uyghur autonomy through force and ethnic assimilationism, and co-opted the “Global War on Terror”...

www.brookings.edu

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给网友提个问题：你们认为汉族出来游行者，比如在上海乌鲁木齐路或各个大学学生，知道11-24遇难者是维吾尔族吗？或以为遇难者是汉族吗？或只把他们当同胞团结关心？或者，不管是谁，大家都被封锁太久？

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In 1989, after the PRC leaders sent military to clear Tiananmen Square, the president of Beijing University welcomed students back to campus and KEPT THE MILITARY OUT of the BeiDa gates--protecting his students at great personal political risk. 🧵

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@JimMillward

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Chinese student jailed for his social media activity while a student at Minnesota. This is a test for University of Minnesota @UMNews --and other universities who should join in solidarity and strength:

University of Minnesota student jailed in China for tweets critical of government

The student had posted images of a cartoon villain resembling Xi Jinping.

www.axios.com

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@JimMillward

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I just published an open letter to US (and other) universities in light of #Zoom ’s revelations about collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party. Considerations of #academicfreedom and safety of students @zoom_us @NCUSCR

Open letter to US (and other) universities in light of Zoom’s revelations about collaborating with…

James Millward, 15 June 2020

link.medium.com

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

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We’re coming up on the 35th anniversary of these student protests. What do Columbia, USC, and other universities canceling and arresting their own students think of Tiananmen? Which side are you on?

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@JimMillward

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新疆。西藏。香港。也對台灣表示越來越暴力的態度。這叫「穩定」嗎？「統一」要這樣嗎？中共到底想要經營多少個所謂「分裂」地區？西藏、新疆問題不已夠了嗎？誰把「自治區」和「一國兩制」弄成這樣？

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

Zoom is at it again. Last summer it cancelled meetings about Tiananmen and Hong Kong. Now it has cancelled university meetings about Palestine (SFSU) and meetings about the cancelation (U Hawaii Manoa) and NYU.

Middle East Studies Association

MESA’s Board of Directors calls on university administrators to robustly defend the academic freedom of their faculty, students, and staff within Zoom and other corporate-controlled virtual meeting...

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Powerful story here: Uyghur torch bearer trotted out in 2008 was arrested under current purge of Uyghur intellectuals, put away for two decades. Impt. context for stories about Dilnigar et al. Story by Abduweili Ayup, a scholar and good reporter

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

10 months

Remember, Mongolia and Tibet both declared new nation states upon fall of Qing empire, just as China did. Turkic peoples from Xinjiang did so later. Extremity of Xi’s historical revision is to hide how PRC national project engulfs these other national projects.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

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James Leibold introduces and analyzes new CCP textbook that codifies emerging racialized theory of Zhonghua-ness, erasing distinctive features of non-Han minzu (Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongol etc.) through spurious historical narrative:

New Textbook Reveals Xi Jinping’s Doctrine of Han-centric Nation-Building - Jamestown

Executive Summary: Another cultural revolution is in full swing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is not the purported class revolution Mao advocated in the past, but rather a wave of Han...

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Whataboutism seems now to be the standard official PRC response to criticism of atrocities in Xinjiang. This interesting strategy implicitly establishes that CCP Uyghur region policies are comparable to colonialism, slavery, racism, attacks on indigenous people elsewhere.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

"The rotten heart of Mulan as a film, rather than its production process, is the accidental regurgitation of China’s current nationalist myths as part of a messy, confused, and boring film."

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

One of the most powerful and complete accounts of on-going CCP genocide perpetrated on Uyghurs, Khazaks and other indigenous Central Asians. Should be standard reading on the subject. Chinese-speaking educated Kazakh locked up bc work took her abroad.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

1 year

I don't know if PRC / HK understands the damage this does. Academics are trying to put the brakes on the rush to demonize China, but Chinese airport detentions of students and profs are trending.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Some evidence of police harassment of scholars in PRC who tried to participate virtually. Bizarre, gut-wrenching contrast btw world scholars in soft breezes warm sun in Honolulu, and our Chinese colleagues trying to join the convo from China, with PSB knocking at their door.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

7 months

Comparing Xinjiang and Gaza—co-written with Nader Hashemi

Lessons on Genocide From Xinjiang and Gaza

Comparing events in Xinjiang and Gaza not only illuminates the double standard over genocide, but reveals the hole at the heart of the supposedly rules-based international order.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

"Le problème est que Laurène Beaumond n’existe pas." Le Monde discovers that French CGTN journalist (double major in history / art & archaeology at the Sorbonne) who's been denying Xinjiang stories from world media is herself an invention.

Controverse autour d’un article de propagande de la télévision d’Etat chinoise sur les Ouïgours

Une certaine Laurène Beaumond, présentée comme une « journaliste française indépendante » a développé sur le média d’Etat chinois les thèses de Pékin sur le Xinjiang et Taïwan.

www.lemonde.fr

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

5 years

Special organ transplant channel in the Kashgar Airport (Xinjiang). Apparently Kashgar is a busy place for organ transplants involving English speakers. Photos like this have been around before; I know who took this one, very recently. Journos if interested, DM or email me.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

5 years

I fear that Beijing 2022 is going to be seriously compromised by the fact that the CCP has 1-2 million ethnic people in prison camps and have turned Xinjiang into a high-tech police state. The comparisons to the 1936 Nazi Olympics will be too obvious to ignore.

Beijing 2022

@Beijing2022

5 years

A group of Beijing Film Academy students volunteered to make this video to show the excitement and anticipation among residents of #Beijing2022 ’s three zones as we mark the 1,000-day countdown. So proud and so thankful.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

This is a huge, disastrous development. The article doesn't quite get it right: this isn't just a database for studying China. It's all Ch articles, dissertations etc. about anything, since 1915 (next:) via @NikkeiAsia

China slashing foreign subscriber access to key research database

China National Knowledge Infrastructure is critical tool for scholars studying country

asia.nikkei.com

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

This is a really important piece: detailed how-to guide for using and understanding public source satellite and other data to research the crimes against humanity going on in Xinjiang and (likely) Tibet. Read, too, if you're a doubter!

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

This is why the Epoch Times has no credibility about China either. I feel sorry for sincere Fa Lun Gong adherents; this FLG paper is now a full-on right wing disinformation organ. This is today’s Epoch Times:

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

10 months

About that word “China”….

hello world

@hellowo63335565

10 months

Chinese never call it 'Tibet'; it's called Xizang. And we call Hong Kong as Xiang gang, Macau as Ao men. The West has no right to give their desired names to any inch of Chinese land.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

2 years

I was asked by a reporter, "what will official PRC say about this week's release of 1000s of docs and photos demonstrating the mass internment and incarceration of people in the Uyghur Region?" Here's the face of a woman enrolled in the CCP "job training program."

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

Remarkable if sad development in PRC efforts to discredit voluminous evidence of repression in Xinjiang (camps, birth suppression, torture, forced labor, mass incarceration). PRC state media announced XJ companies are suing Adrian Zenz, an individual scholar. (more)

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@JimMillward

4 years

China’s atrocities in Tibet are growing too big to ignore

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Buried in the Reuters report on Zenz new article is what to me is the most impt info: many egs of PRC govt and academic reports openly discussing need to "optimize" 优化 southern XJ population: i.e. reduce the number of Uyghurs, increase number of Hans.

EXCLUSIVE China policies could cut millions of Uyghur births in Xinjiang

Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected...

www.reuters.com

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

6 years

If there's any doubt that Uyghur and Uyghur language are the target of the CCP campaigns in Xinjiang, check out the changes to official emblems of XJ universities:

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@JimMillward

3 years

I'll be testifying Thurs. 5/6 along with Tursunay Ziyawudun and Nury Turkel before the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, regarding the atrocities against #Uyghurs and other non-Han peoples of #Xinjiang . Streaming from 12:30 pm:

Committee on Foreign Affairs

The House Foreign Affairs Committee considers measures about the relations of the United States with foreign nations, protection of United States' citizens abroad, and United Nations organizations.

foreignaffairs.house.gov

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 months

Arbitrary banning of PRC students with valid US visas, in the middle of their graduate programs--not large nos, but with devastating impact for the scholars and US reputation. Apparently one CPB agent at Dulles has the authority to ban students for 5 years

Expulsions of Chinese Students Spread Confusion From Yale to UVA

Customs agents at US airports have barred entry to at least 20 students and scholars with valid visas since November in ‘more insidious’ version of disbanded China Initiative.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

4 years

Interested in learning the Uyghur language? Or advanced conversation practice or guided reading? A Uyghur friend of mine is a cultured native speaker (also fluent Chinese, English), holds MA degree w/ teaching experience. Individual or group lessons online. DM me for her contact.

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James Millward 米華健

@JimMillward

3 years

Nicely put, Enes Kanter. PRC argument that the nation state is sacrosanct, you can’t criticize it no matter what it does, is ridiculous when you think of it. Of course we can!We are human. If you see someone hurting someone, you don’t ask to see their passport before intervening.

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

3 years

NBA star @EnesKanter has been using his stardom to take a stand against what he sees as human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. "China uses money to buy silence," Kanter tells me in a TV exclusive. "I don't care about your endorsement deal."

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Trump is such an idiot. Retreating from WHO only makes it more Sino-centric. The UN Human Rights Council is the same story--Trump pulled out in a pique over Palestine, and now China rules the roost, rendering it meaningless and rewriting the definitions of "human rights"

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@JimMillward

3 years

I'm hearing from students in China that US consulates are still not open to process student visas. Biden's team needs to fix this counter-productive legacy of Trump policy, ASAP. Universities will be open in the fall. Let's get our students here.

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@JimMillward

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which is to say, not a danwei here and there preventing their professors from participating, but center-level mandate to ignore the main international interdisciplinary conference on Asian studies. It's a return to before 1979, when PRC isolated itself from global scholarship.

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@JimMillward

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Chamath seems to be the newest paid shill for the CCP / PRC. He sounds just like the pseudo-lefties who say US racism means we shouldn't care about PRC racism.

Chamath Palihapitiya ‘Not Even Sure’ China Is a Dictatorship

When the VC downplayed Uighur oppression on a podcast, he didn’t mention his deep business ties to China.

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