X (Twitter) just told me that this reply to my post - basically a death threat - does not violate its policies.

UN Special Rapporteur who received $200,000 in funding from Beijing visits Xinjiang, says western sanctions on Xinjiang over Uyghur forced labor should be lifted.

Meanwhile, UN Human Rights Council has failed to even discuss its own Xinjiang report.
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Strategic blindness in Germany’s approach to China has led to mounting costs in terms of national sovereignty, economic independence and civil liberties.
Analysis by Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
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I haven't seen this level of attack and denialism (targeting the post below) in a while.

Evidence that large-scale arbitrary detentions in Xinjiang have continued is clearly considered highly sensitive by the CCP leadership.

Two years after publication of the Xinjiang Police Files, German national TV visits Tekes, one of the locations documented in the Files.

There, they witnessed the ongoing police state: surveillance, imprisonment, security following them.
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After being told that its cars contained parts made by a company linked to Uyghur forced labor, BMW knowingly continued to import these cars into the U.S., in violation of the UFLPA.

“Automakers’ self-policing is clearly not doing the job.”
nytimes.com/2024/05/20/bus…

Two land grab stories point to a key part of the ongoing atrocities in Uyghur homelands:
Uyghurs refusing to hand over land to Han developers or corporations are placed in detention.
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On April 29, a train carrying agricultural products left Urumqi, Xinjiang and is headed to Salerno, Italy.

Agricultural products involve a high risk of Uyghur forced labor. This is a very concerning situation.
globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

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Kevin Carrico The Chief operating officer in China of Springer, Marc Spenlé, is one of the recipient of a China book award together with Colin Mackerras, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (both 2015 20000 €). Michael Lackner (2021).
I hope you see the pattern!
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Great to see that my research article in Communist and Post-Communist Studies is now open-access:
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan: A Comparative Analysis of State-Sponsored Forced Labor
online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article/5…

Scholz' strategy regarding Moscow and Beijing, summarized in one image.

This op-ed by Dr. Dilnur Reyhan 🖋📚🌳🌈 reminds us that Europe isn't doing anything about the largest atrocity targeting an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust:
'Welcoming Xi Jinping to France is a policy of complicity in the Uyghur genocide'
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WHEN WRITERS SILENCE WRITERS
Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil was scheduled to speak at the cancelled PEN America event.

'We like to think of writers as courageous individuals who believe in free expression without fetters. In practice, they turn out to be no more able to resist

Thanks to Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins SAIS / Andrew Mertha for hosting a great event.

The published version of the presented paper 'Innovating Repression' can be read at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (open access).

A good review of this week's China Commission hearing on Social Audits and PRC/Uyghur forced labor and Volkswagen's audit-washing can be found here. (By Jasmin Malik Chua)
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