#UYGHURS

1/ Have been thinking a lot about how the US right mobilized their support for Hong Kong protesters and the Uyghur people as a trope to foster their anti-China agenda,
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There's so much wrong with this post it baffles me. You're literally from Britain. You're just as western as me. It's the classic "white western leftist complains about white western
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The fact that I'm getting ratioed so badly, and so quickly, over calling out someone for moving the goalposts, really says a lot about the "anti-tankie left". These guys started
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People following Xinjiang related issues on Twitter recently may have seen a few tweets like this. On a hunch that Emma Stone might not be re-tweeting the Global Times’ denial
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A grim paradox of the climate era: To prevent worst-case warming scenarios, we're at risk of accepting unconscionable abuse. That's the conclusion of a @climate investigation into deep links between
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the source-laundering, propaganda echo chamber notwithstanding, at the end of the day there are only 2 actual reports behind the 1 million+ Uighurs detained fabrications, both from spook shops- CHRD
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The United States is not interested in China's Muslims, it is interested in creating a new civil war in this region to prevent China from connecting with Europe (Belt and
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After teaching in Xinjiang 18yrs ago, Chris spent years ONLY talking about his experiences in Kyrgyzstan, even on stageSuddenly after attending "Free HK" protests last year, he has many Uyghur
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Also, it's not clear it is in the US' interests to take those steps.On tension in the US approach as Pompeo is outlining it is we both want regime change
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Very rare footage as Chinese govt seldom lets footages or photos of detainees leak out. This is important evidence showing ongoing abuses of Uyghurs on the basis of their identity,
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Some thoughts on recent stoushes, and my own position, which evidently confuses people. I’m sure the @ASPI_ICPC report is mostly accurate. It’s an impressive piece of work. But the empirical
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Highly recommend the Xinjiang Data Project map. Look up the coordinates yourself. Google Maps will often be blurry/ outdated, but many ruins are visible. Two possibilities: ASPI is just making
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1/ If you travel to Uyghur communities unable to read and speak Uyghur and/or Chinese, you are essentially blind and deaf to the state's everyday violence. Let's begin in Kashgar
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New @ASPI_ICPC report from @AudreyFritz5, @DariImpio & myself TikTok & WeChat~Curating and controlling global information flows~Read it here: https://www.aspi.org.au/report/tiktok-wechatby @therevmountain A key finding: Hashtags rel
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the lesser known gender dimension of the (colonial) migration to Xinjiang in the early years of the PRC. a thread.After the republic was founded, thousands of soldiers were placed in
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THREAD.Some additional info here on the actual date that this was filmed. I was off by 6 months, it was filmed in late April 2019. Shadow analysis can only chronolocate
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