3/3 Thanks to Nadège Rolland for probing questions and for producing a deeply informative series. If you work on policy or research in this area, this episode should change how you frame the problem. Full episode (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin...
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2/3 Key claim — CCP border policy cycles between reluctant autonomy and coercive integration; the Party’s aim remains a single national whole. We unpack the mechanisms, evidence, and the real costs to frontier communities.

Co-written with Devendra Kumar—a razor-sharp young Indian scholar a sixth sense for digging up hidden sources on the Chinese internet.

-He has spent years building the most complete database of officials in the TAR, some 12,000+ cadres from 2010-present.

— Representation survives mostly in consultative and ceremonial roles. But the real levers of power? Firmly in Han hands.

— This is state-led disenfranchisement—subtle, data-driven, and deliberate. A reengineering of the political architecture to entrench Han settler colonial rule.

— Tens of Thousands of Han cadres have been sent to Tibet under the Tibet-Aid Project—many now lead TAR cities, counties, and bureaus.

— At the grassroots, Han “second-generation Xizang” (藏二代) (born in or tied to the region) now dominate county Party secretary positions.

— The CCP once promised minorities could be "masters of their own house”. In Tibet, that meant quotas for minority officials in real positions of power.

— Those quotas are vanishing. Since 2012, Tibetan presence in key Party and government roles has plummeted. Han dominance is now the norm.

Antisemitism in China is connected to extreme anti-Manchu conspiracy theories as well. In this article, @jleibold.bsky.social looks at fringe Hanist forums. Members of these forums justify the Holocaust and in one case refer to the Manchus (who they want to exterminate) as the "Jews of China."

What is Language Oppression? Examining the Case of Manegacha
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