Really grateful I got the chance to share a few thoughts about TikTok for ChinaFile alongside some of my favorite people
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Cannot overstate how excited I am to welcome the visionary and legendary Annie Jieping Zhang (@Mattersw3b 端傳媒 Initium Media) to Yale as a Poynter fellow. She'll discuss China reporting through political upheavals, role of new technologies, and hopes in the diaspora:
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First time I’ve seen this: Chinese state TV pushing out an AI-generated animation showing workers across America striking and rioting as a result of income inequality and democratic crisis.

Very good round of expert assessments on the TikTok divestiture law that is now being contemplated in the Senate.

Honored to join the conversation, in which I argue that TikTok represents a conundrum at all is a sign of how difficult it is for Washington to proactively resolve debates about data, freedom, and security. chinafile.com/conversation/t…

Ha Jin’s new novel is about Sun Weishi, the adopted daughter of Zhou Enlai, a playwright and director, whom, during the Cultural Revolution, Zhou sent into detention, where she died. Perry Link reviews: chinafile.com/library/nyrb-c…

Time up for TikTok? A ChinaFile Conversation with Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋, Julian Ku 古舉倫, China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum, Kaiser Kuo, Louise Matsakis, Graham Webster, @rzhongnotes

It can't be emphasized enough how difficult it is to get detailed official information out of Xinjiang. The sentencing document at the heart of this story is incredibly rare and so is the quality and depth of the reporting Darren Byler has undertaken to bring it to life.

Thanks so much to Steve Jones, whose blog is one of the most insightful China ethnographic-history site around, for this intro to minjiandanganguan -- our platform for China's independent history movement. Check out his intro--it answers a lot of question about what it's all about.

I love reading Darren Byler beautiful writing & meticulous, deeply humane research. But I hate reading it for the horrors documented.
#Xinjiang Authorities Retroactively Applying Laws to Prosecute Religious Leaders as Criminals chinafile.com/reporting-opin… via @chinafile #Uyghurs #CAH

'Since the start of the reeducation campaign in 2017, approximately a tenth of all adult Uyghurs and Kazakhs in Xinjiang have been sent to various forms of detention.'
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“At that time, the relevant laws and regulations had not yet been promulgated, and legal publicity work had not yet been implemented. [...] Every legal provision related to this case was announced and implemented after 2015.”