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Sep 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Turpan, whose police Disney thanked at the end of Mulan, is the first documented case of re-education against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. This Aug 2013 doc speaks of the "re-education" of "focus groups" to "eradicate the soil for the breeding and spread of religious extremism" Image
This January 2016 document speaks of "continuing to do re-education classes well" in order to "continually deepen / consolidate the results of de-extremification". Image
In July 2016, Zhu Hailun himself inspected Turpan's "centralized re-education training" work. Image
Sources:
tlf.gov.cn/info/6077/8556…

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

chinapeace.gov.cn/chinapeace/c54…
A more detailed discussion can be found in the full academic paper on the genesis of Xinjiang’s re-education campaign: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… or (free) osf.io/preprints/soca…

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Breaking: Xinjiang gets new party secretary as Ma Xingrui is replaced by Chen Xiaojiang, deputy United Front Work Department minister and the first ethnic Han appointed director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission.

Chen affirms primacy of stability in Xinjiang:👇 Image
Globally, this could foreshadow an emphasis on coordinated influence operations to improve Xinjiang's global image, further repressing dissenting voices abroad. Domestically, it reflects an emphasis on coerced ethnic unity and securitization under total party control.
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Major media investigation finds thousands of Uyghurs forced to work in 75 factories across 11 Chinese regions, with links to major western companies. I supported this joint investigation into state-imposed forced labor transfers by @nytimes @derspiegel @TBIJ. THREAD: 👇 Image
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The past two months I analyzed Clive Greenwood, the most senior member of the Liangma audit team that visited @VW's Xinjiang factory.

@clivegreenwood’s enigmatic background is characterized by twists, turns, contradictions, and obfuscation. 🧵
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Mr. Greenwood did not respond to detailed questions about his professional background, his role in the audit, and his apparent lack of expertise in conducting social audits.

After he was contacted, he deleted his LinkedIn biography and removed "Liangma" from his profile.
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Between 2004 and 2016, @clivegreenwood ran a British sports pub in Suzhou called The Drunken Chef, where he advertised his offerings with images of scantily-clad women.

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A leaked full copy of the confidential audit of Volkswagen's Xinjiang factory shows that key statements made by @VW about the audit were false or misleading.

The audit suffers from severe methodological shortcomings & failed to protect interviewed Uyghur staff. Full report:🧵 Image
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My full analysis with screenshots of the original report:
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The audit was conducted by Liangma Law, a Chinese law firm with significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Liangma possesses no discernible experience in conducting social audits and does not advertise related services. It is not accredited to conduct SA8000 audits. Image
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On Saturday, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs casually announced new standardized Chinese names for 30 locations in "South Tibet" (藏南), together with an updated map (below).

"South Tibet" is India's state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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This was the PRC MCA's 4th announcement, resulting in a total of 62 Chinese place names. Links in next post.

Reuters report on the matter: reuters.com/world/india/in…
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1st, 2017:
2nd, 2021:
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