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Xinjiang Syllabus: a short list of key readings on the crisis in Xinjiang / East Turkestan:
James Millward 米華健
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James Millward 米華健
@JimMillward
Historian of China & Central Asia and mandolinist w By & By. Work on Xinjiang, Qing, Silk Road, & stringed instruments across Eurasia.@[email protected]
Washington DC
Joined April 2011
- Worth reading: especially note Fair’s point that 80-90% of US investment in Afghanistan ended up back in US economy, siphoned by contractors
- Xinjiang goods still on the supermarket shelves! It’s a good thing no one in America can read Chinese.
- Swedish singer Zara Larsson ends collaboration with Huawei, declares support to Uighurs | Daily Sabah
- 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?
- 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：
- 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
- 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
- Second half of this, crowd call and response saying “liberate Xinjiang,” “Liberate all China.” 说的是”解放”还是”解封”？Replying to @eefjerammeloo‘Down with the party! Down with Xi Jinping!’ Free Xinjiang!’
00:00 - 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)
- 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
- 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)#Mississippi in 1908 🆚 #Xinjiang in 2015 A shotgun and several hounds 🆚 smiles and harvests. Forced labor?
- 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
- 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)
