I will present my latest research on the Uyghur homeland at Johns Hopkins University's Johns Hopkins SAIS institute, hosted by Dr. Andrew Mertha, on Monday April 29:
Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing's Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang
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New research shows TikTok's censorship effect on topics that it consider to be sensitive (including Ukraine and Israel). This gives Beijing huge influence over perceptions held by the young generation.
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bri…

My final speaking time in the #EuropeanParliament . About human rights, China & EU-China relations. These topics will continue to be of central relevancy also in the future. My focus yesterday:
Freedom for Andy Li, Joseph John, Jimmy Lai and all #HongKong democrats!

I look forward to testify at next week's China Commission hearing on the impossibility of conducting social audits in Xinjiang.

Focus will be on Volkswagen's recent audit-washing, VW/BASF's presence in Xinjiang, and the abuse of audits to conceal forced labor risks.
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Updated ILO Forced Labor Guidelines Directly Target Uyghur Forced Labor jamestown.org/program/update… Adrian Zenz

3. Scholz is making the same mistake his predecessor Angela Merkel made: Instead of focusing on the long term and working for the interest of Germany and the German business community as a whole, he gives in to the (short term) needs of a few big companies. (6/13)

Major news: the @ILO adopts new forced labor measurement guidelines that squarely target Uyghur forced labor. Deeply humbled to see that they adopt my work in their new research guidance on state-imposed forced labor. An analysis is below and in the linked article:…

Important developments, rundown of the research, and methodological insights for identifying state imposed forced labor; focus on Uyghurs in PRC

Wonderful news that the ILO has adopted new guidelines on forced labour that incorporates a lot of the stellar work of expert Adrian Zenz.

Great to work with Adrian Zenz again to publish this latest piece, focusing on the PRC-related aspects of the ILO’s new set of tools for the design, implementation, and analysis of quantitative surveys on forced labour 👇

'Cognitive warfare'

Wie kann ein deutscher Kanzler in Peking Einfluss gewinnen?
- Er kommt ohne Wirtschaftsdelegation nur für einen Tag
- Mit einer Agenda, die mit Paris, Brüssel und Washington koordiniert ist
- Und hat im Gepäck carrots -- Anreize -- und sticks -- negative Konsequenzen

Disrupting Genocide: It's great to be part of this conference on the Uyghurs in New York, engaging Jewish, Muslim, Christian faith communities, sponsored by ElieWieselFoundation, Uyghur Human Rights Project, World Uyghur Congress. nytimes.com/2024/04/17/nyr…

Above all, Scholz' trip shows that German foreign policy is neither European, nor reflective of his coalition government, but beholden to him alone: his preferences, fears, insecurities, and a dangerously outdated understanding of the times we live in.
scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Scholz' China trip was executed with a level of naivete that indicates willful blindness. It's unethical and unwise for Germany to ignore Beijing's competitive advantage from operating the world's largest system of state-imposed forced labor.
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.⁦Adrian Zenz⁩ msg to Scholz: “this kind of compromise doesn’t work…Going to Beijing w/ a group of businesses, making himself dependent on an authoritarian country that’s operating the largest system of state-imposed forced labor in the world today.” Via ⁦POLITICO⁩

This is not mere propaganda. It is gray zone warfare, and should be treated as such.