Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I was asked to write an essay on Russia's relations with China. I did and I argued that this would happen. The essay was subsequently withdrawn by the publisher on the grounds that it was "off topic". edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/c...

Obviously British universities are underfunded but political interference by China's party-state is also very real. www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...

🚨 New research report 🚨 “Preventing Transnational Repression: the case of the Uyghur diaspora” By David Tobin and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

21 years later and this reads almost like prophecy.

2004. "The dynamics of penetration and resistance between the centre and what still remains an indigenous periphery can be expected to generate at the same time both increased sinicization and increased ethno-national unrest." www.jstor.org/stable/20192...

The discussion on Chinese political interference in British academia is long overdue. But it will all be hot air if practical resources, support, and legal protections are not provided to those who are actually doing the work. www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-...

Following the illegal deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China, artists are being censored in Thailand to avoid telling their stories of persecution and survival. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

The survey demonstrates that there are sharply differentiated experiences in Chinese Studies depending what you research and how. I would like to hear more answers about how to enable those who do have those experiences to speak safely and less from those who have not engaged with those experiences.

#China #UK ukctransparency.org/wp-content/u...

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It is tragic that the Joint Committee on Human Rights did not mention Uyghurs. They are a key target for transnational repression and receive almost no support. news.sky.com/story/author...

In June 2025, academics and civil society organisations met in London for an International Network for Critical China Studies workshop to analyse how to prevent transnational repression. Governments & NGOs have not paid enough attention to TNR and need to do much more to protect people's rights.

In my undergraduate classes, you have to do the reading before commenting. You also have to analyse evidence by asking, why is this person saying this? Who is their intended audience? What verifiable evidence do they have for their statements? Repeating what people say is not analysis.

We've added a fundamental new feature/direction today, in which we'll be sharing, translating, and automatically validating various internal documents: shahit.biz/eng/#internal

Princeton University Press has yet to apologise for using politicised language and state narratives (e.g., 多元一体) that justify the elimination of group identities that the CCP does not approve. thediplomat.com/2025/07/prin...

A generous interpretation is that the CCP/CPC 'debate' used to be a squabble over whether to emphasise socialism in one country or an international movement. Now it's a manufactured distraction to attract people who can't read Chinese.

Xi Jinping's "people's war on terror" differed significantly. CCP docs outline how it uses mass mobilisation, more intense surveillance, and detention for pre-crimes 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/las/research...

CDT is hands-down one of the most important public resources available for trying to understand China

After a Chinese government sponsored tour, Princeton University Press uses explicitly political language to celebrate party-state policies that removed the Uyghur language from the education system. If you are interested in what 多元一体 means in practice, chapter 2 of my book covers this 👇

🧵: It’s worth unpacking how the lines that PUP draws almost verbatim from party-state propaganda— most notably about “telling the story” of Xinjiang, which echoes Xi’s call to “tell the China story well” — have very specific applications to task the denial of abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims

So much has changed since 1989 六四 chinaheritage.net/journal/iron...

We've published a short listicle of eyewitness points about camps and factories in 2018-2019, as delivered by an anonymous camp employee to a journalist during that period: blog.shahit.biz/2025/06/01/1... Very short read, but insightful.

Was really privileged to see a screening of @drdavidtobin.bsky.social and Mirshad Ghalip’s “Echoes of Home” at this year’s AAS. Really excited to see that the trailer for it is getting a wide release. An excellent, funny, touching and thought provoking film.

Echoes of Home is my first film on Uyghur diaspora identities and football, co-produced with Dr Mirshad Ghalip. "Each one of us has a story that goes beyond what our oppressors gave us". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naq1...

Mukaddas is a tremendous film maker but because she is Uyghur, unknown people (most likely Chinese authorities) are imitating her in a pathetic attempt to intimidate and collect information. Don't respond to this number and watch her films instead. m.imdb.com/title/tt2782...

What has happened to me ~Testimony of an Uyghur ｗoman 3~ note.com/tomomishimiz... ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS! testimonies of Uyghur women, drawn by Japanese illustrator Tomomi Shimizu 清水ともみ 2025年4月10日

2 points from intro Chinese politics courses: 1. "National humiliation" was not remembered. It was taught to this generation (see Zhao Suisheng & William Callahan). 2. #China is not a passive victim. It has agency and deeply influences international relations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Unity Camps, Great Country Borderlands & Pomegranate Seed Families: How the CCP’s youth work promotes Xi’s assimilationist agenda, settler colonialism, and seeks to transform children into ‘little envoys’, ‘propagandists’ and ‘demonstrators’ of CCP-led ‘ethnic unity’.

"Remember you’ll always be a f***ing Yanhuang son,” “Your skin is yellow.” Perfect example of why the conversation on "anti-Asian racism" needs to include people who actually experience and work on racism in Asia. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/rednote-rank...

(for general use) Here is the comprehensive map of all 58 prisons (监狱) currently active in Xinjiang today: google.com/maps/d/embed... This should be all of them, barring any that might have been just constructed, in the past year or so.

I worked at Ningbo where reading lists are directly censored and electronic surveillance is in the classroom. It offers zero capacity to address issues of human rights or to promote understanding between two different countries.

Dilnur Reyhan, sociologist & president of Uyghur Institute of Europe, protested against the CCP at the Fête de L'Humanité in 2022 in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. Following a complaint from the Chinese Embassy, tomorrow she is taken to court. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

@irishuyghurca.bsky.social @iccl.bsky.social @irishtimes.com Hear about the Irish Uyghur community and their concerns for safety. Apple apple.co/4bvnHK7 Spotify spoti.fi/4bqRIuv SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/i9k8qotVGyBZ... Blog bit.ly/4bse1jc

Three #documentary films 📽️ by #RemoteXuar team members were screened last month at the film festival #Decolonial Documentation: Homeland, Survival and Belonging in #Kazakh and #Uyghur Filmmaking at @uoft.bsky.social ⬇️ www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/decol...

Think tankers in the US talking to think tankers in China is not a solution to multipolar international insecurity.

Rubio has already highlighted why the US can't and won't be able to pull off a "reverse Kissinger". sg.news.yahoo.com/us-bid-divid...

For anyone unfamiliar with Chinese politics, this is not investigative journalism. It is the uncritical and contextless circulation of CCP talking points to influence public opinion during a crucial juncture. #UK #Ukraine #Russia #China www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Following the deportation of 40+ Uyghur men to China, Thailand receives enormous investment.

During fieldwork, I encountered #Uyghurs in danger of deportation and police harassment. I emailed several available addresses for the UNHCR to alert them. They did not respond and they blocked my professional email address. www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...

After more than ten years in arbitrary detention, 40 men have been deported to #China without their consent where experts agree they will be persecuted. #Uyghurs #Thailand #asylum #diaspora #humanrights

48 #Uyghur men held in limbo for a decade may soon be soon be deported from #Thailand to #China. www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/news/ho...

They're not China hawks.

Today, at a hearing in the South Bangkok Criminal Court regarding the unlawful detention of 43 Uyghur men for 11–12 years, I testified as an expert witness. My statement in English is below. The Thai and Uyghur versions will be posted soon.

Huge gratitude to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Faculty of Arts and Humanities for supporting my work and covering this hugely important humanitarian issue.

Urgent Researcher Statement on the status of #Uyghur asylum seekers in #Thailand reaches nearly 200 signatories. It asks for the 48 men held to be given safe haven instead of being deported to #China where they will be persecuted. forms.gle/zWw3GbTvvqiu...

"This may be my last message." #Uyghurs stage hunger strike over #China deportation from #Thailand. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

#Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 #Uyghurs to #China: UN experts. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#China deportations loom for #Uyghurs held in #Thailand. www.bbc.com/news/article...