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Dutch Ambassador for Human Rights and former Ambassador to China:
06.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Intl Day in Support of Victims of Torture has passed, but #XieYang remains behind bars—3.5 years without trial. He defended pro-democracy protesters & activists until #ChinaGov arrested him for it--then tortured him in detention.
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Research by @peterirwin.bsky.social @henrykszad.bsky.social + Ben Carrdus from April demonstrated the dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region.
IHG is operating—and dramatically expanding—its business amidst atrocities.
uhrp.org/report/it-do...
The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department.
Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
Unity Camps, Great Country Borderlands & Pomegranate Seed Families: How the CCP’s youth work promotes Xi’s assimilationist agenda, settler colonialism, and seeks to transform children into ‘little envoys’, ‘propagandists’ and ‘demonstrators’ of CCP-led ‘ethnic unity’.
06.04.2025 17:16 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
These re-surfaced videos are raising concerns about Harvard speaker Jiang "Luanna" Yurong during a protest last year against Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng.
03.06.2025 13:32 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
27 May 14:00 - 15:30
Beyond #Xinjiang
Join our online seminar exploring how #China’s securitization policies impact #Muslim minorities 🕌 — with a focus on #Uyghur and #Hui communities: www.remote-xuar.com/events/beyon...
#China's state-led #environmentalism 🌿 is reshaping life on its western frontiers — but often at the expense of #ethnic minority herders. Join our Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 9 May to learn how these environmental policies have been negotiated on the ground:
www.remote-xuar.com/events/lives... 🐫
Xi commended volunteers at a Xinjiang boarding school in a letter marking Youth Day on May 4:
'more young people have chosen to serve as volunteers in the country's western regions and rural areas over the years, demonstrating their spirit of dedication and sense of responsibility.'
Half of RFA’s language services will no longer produce new content: RFA Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur, and Lao. Also, ceasing operations will be Asia Fact Check Lab, a special unit focused on picking apart false narratives seeded by the Chinese Communist Party.
www.rfa.org/english/abou...
"Tibetans have not witnessed such strong support for Tibet in a European parliament in many years, except in the Czech Republic."
01.05.2025 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"During at least seven of Xi’s 31 international trips between 2019 and 2024, local law enforcement infringed on dozens of protesters’ rights in order to shield the Chinese president from dissent, detaining or arresting activists, often for spurious reasons."
01.05.2025 15:30 — 👍 42 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
The DeepChina Substack account is controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department, and was created specifically to spread propaganda and conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
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Indeed, refuting Taiwan's deep #Austronesian connection is a high priority for the CCP, as noted in a recent report highlighting the United Front propaganda work by the party-sponsored #Substack, DeepChina, which has been attempting to masquerade as neutral academia. buttondown.com/collectivest...
28.04.2025 09:41 — 👍 22 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
“In 2024, 33 Chinese NGOs showed up about 300 times on the lists of speakers at [#UN] Human Rights Council sessions. There were only three of them in 2018. None criticized #China [govt], #ICIJ’s review of their statements found.”
www.icij.org/investigatio...
See recent @collectivestudy.bsky.social pieces on various Party efforts to promote 'Community for the Chinese Nation' (中華民族共同體) domestically and abroad:
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The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department.
Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
'One of the two detained reporters taken away is the president of the Macau Journalists Association, the press union said on Friday.'
23.04.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'He was arrested from his hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on 25th March. On 3rd April his death was announced publicly by his monastery.'
19.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else
15.04.2025 08:13 — 👍 47 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 5
