Beijing now pays for Google Ads to display a link with a hit piece against me when you Google my name...! If you don't think that's OK, you can report it at this link: support.google.com/google-ads/con…
To see the ad, you apparently need to search for results from the last week or 24hrs (via "search tools", see screenshot), scroll down until you see the ad, and copy the link to the ad on the complaint form.
You could say this is Fake News or similar, and could paste a website link that describes my real identity, such as e.g. victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-…
If more people do it, Google might act. Thanks!
Note this might be region-specific and not show in the region you live in.
Note also that the Google support link to report an ad might be region-specific, and you might have to Google it.
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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: 👇
The investigation reviewed thousands of social media videos and visited two dozen factories. The findings point to the massive scale of Uyghurs being sent to work in factories around the country.
Implicated western companies include @BMW , @VW , Mercedes-Benz AG, Stellantis, LG Electronics, Tesla, Midea Group, KFC, McDonald's, @SKECHERSUSA , and Manchester City football club.
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. 🧵
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.
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.
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:🧵
I contacted @VW and they said they did not want to respond to my set of detailed questions about the report. Liangma did not respond.
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.
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.
Thread:🧵
India promptly responded, affirming that the state is an "integral" part of India.
This was the PRC MCA's 4th announcement, resulting in a total of 62 Chinese place names. Links in next post.
@SophieDRich Related op-ed by @benedictrogers, arguing that member states must be clear and specific in pointing out Beijing's egregious human rights violations. He suggests 10 points that could be raised. ucanews.com/news/chinas-ri…
BREAKING: U.S. sanctions first Chinese central government official over atrocities in Xinjiang:
Hu Lianhe, who defended the camps at the U.N. in 2018.
Hu is a deputy head of the central government's Xinjiang Leading Small Group and of the United Front. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
The justification for sanctioning him follows closely my analysis of Hu's role in my research article from 2021.
The Xinjiang LSG he co-leads was closely involved in the De-Extremification Regulation, which justified the re-education camps. jamestown.org/program/eviden…
Specifically the Central Xinjiang Work Coordination Small Group (中央新疆工作协调小组办公室) was closely involved in supervising the draft of the original Regulation, published in March 2017, and its revision, published in October 2018. Thus, he had close knowledge of the camps.