This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

The book is out! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

No Kings protest about to start in Paris. Wish I could be in the US today. There’s still plenty of time to grab your jacket and head to a protest in towns across the US!

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

/6 If you are stuck in the McArdlian view "we can't think of the other side of evil" -- which I view as sociopathic -- I have to ask, is there ANYTHING they can do that will make you call it evil? Is there ANYTHING they can do that won't make you say "I should focus on finding common ground?"

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

What’s the ideal age for the state to impose assimilation on minorities? In Tibet, it’s 4.

Gift link to new long read from me and Niharika Mandhana Beijing's building of government-run preschools across Tibetan areas to reverse generations of opposition to party rule:

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Same racist authoritarian data collection they've been doing in Xinjiang for years. Fight it everywhere

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.

If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!

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Radio Free Asia was the 1st to reveal China's mass detention of Uyghurs & kept the world informed about the crimes against humanity there. 🇨🇳 tried silencing RFA by imprisoning families of Uyghur RFA journos; now 🇺🇸 poised to help 🇨🇳 finish that job. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

This is a test for Columbia and the universities in general. They must oppose this with collective loud voices and legal aid to Khalil, who is targeted for specific speech while a student.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

🆘🆘🆘Govt of #Thailand appears to be on the brink of quadrupling-down on a decade of appalling violations of #Uyghur #refugee rights. Forcing them back to #China = forcing them back to horrific abuses. Demys need to win out over Beijing—urgently. www.jurist.org/news/2025/01...

Difficult to write or talk about this monstrous act by the Chinese state, one of countless atrocities against Uyghurs. Absurd cruelty toward a kind, brilliant, and community-oriented anthropologist. duihua.org/life-sentenc...

Devastating news that scholar Rahile Dawut is serving a life sentence in China. Her crime was culture: she is an ethnographer of Uyghur folklore traditions. This is the petty fear of the supposedly mighty state of China. duihua.org/life-sentenc...