China’s language policies impact over 60 languages spoken across the Tibetan Plateau. Linguistic diversity is “collapsing” in the region, with China refusing to recognize Tibet's minority languages & only acknowledging a single standard Tibetan language. documentedny.com/2025/06/23/tib…

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"Xi Jinping’s ‘soul-casting’ (铸魂) project in Xinjiang shows the CCP’s drive to remake not just bodies, but beliefs and inner lives. A chilling blueprint of authoritarian re-engineering. @MelbAsiaReview 🔗 melbourneasiareview.edu.au/forged-souls-b…"

Xi Declares Success in Chinese Region at Center of Rights-Abuse Claims—Beijing’s policies are working in Xinjiang, a no-go zone for Western companies, leader says Chun Han Wong 王春翰 wsj.com/world/china/xi… wsj.com/world/china/xi…

Chun Han Wong 王春翰 James Leibold La Trobe University Xi believes that the party can engineer and reshape the culture of minority communities to “achieve an irreversible melding of the ethnic groups into one Chinese consciousness,” Oidtmann said. wsj.com/world/china/xi…

🧠 Writing for Scroll.in, James Leibold examines Xi Jinping’s "soul-casting" project, a campaign to erase Uyghur culture, faith, family, and fertility through coercion, assimilation, and re-engineering. scroll.in/article/108615…

James Leibold The National Bureau of Asian Research Robert Barnett Carnegie Mellon University latrobe group 16 Great stuff. On Fei Xiaotong, I argue that he was an ideologue of Chinese imperialism, and western academia got fooled. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… This is about more than borderland policies.

China is winning the trade war. They have strong cards, but the truth is the Trump team inadvertently helped them. Per the The Wall Street Journal, the reason China massively escalated in the last 36 hours is because it believes Trump will fold - just as he did on magnets - without reaching for

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn

What the NYT missed about China’s green energy projects in Tibet: they’re being hailed as a triumph but what’s left out is the human and ecological cost, displacement, and repression.

Grateful for the opportunity to spend an hour with Bill Bishop on the Trump-Xi meeting! Here are four key takeaways on the trade war and summit: 1⃣ POTUS started an unnecessary trade war with China. He escalated wildly, taking tariffs over 140%, while alienating the allies you want

Wake up call to UK Universities. BBC reports China intimidation to ditch Uyghur human rights research. CCP money a malign influence threatening academic freedom & free speech. Prof. Murphy’s work Laura Murphy has been cited in ⁦⁦⁦UK Parliament Human Rights Committee

This actually happened: while my husband cooked chicken (45 min), I ran a research sprint on British academics' research ties to China to assess the landscape, since we recently moved to the UK and research for work. I identified 29 cases that raise research security questions

Sheffield Hallam University suspended a professor's research on forced labor in China—then reportedly stonewalled her pleas to alert the UK government amid CCP harassment. A cautionary tale about transnational repression in British academia. A short 🧵 /1 thetimes.com/article/34e787…

While British universities were suppressing research projects about human rights violations in Xinjiang, they were also working to strengthen the technological sinews of China's repressive apparatus. A very disturbing thread by the brilliant Vicky Xu

We already warned of a scenario like the current Sheffield Hallam scandal five years ago: “Individual universities will be picked off unless there is a common agreement to resist Chinese state interference in academic research and teaching on China” 🇨🇳 🇬🇧 theguardian.com/education/2020…

Terribly sad news of the unexpected passing of Joe Fewsmith, a giant in the field of Chinese politics, a terrific professor, and just a really great guy. I was privileged to have studied under him. He got a lot of things right on Chinese politics I think, and his "Rethinking