Thread by @jleibold

1/5 Check out our latest research report and interactive website @ASPI_ICPC’s #Xinjiang_Data_Project. Over a year of work and literally thousands of primary sources later, we unpack Xinjiang’s governance mechanisms and modes of repression since 2014 xjdp.aspi.org.au/chart/

2/5 There are many new findings here, including how Xi Jinping & other top party officials are strengthening grassroots surveillance & control mechanisms and turning to Maoist-style political campaigns in their pursuit of manufactured stability and ethnocultural homogenization.

3/5 I consider myself deeply fortunate to work with talented analysts like @xu_xuizhong & @DariImpio and a top team of researchers including @emiledirks & @phreakoutaston who assisted us with the research, fact-checking, archiving & other empirical building blocks for the report.

4/5 Thanks to @dtbyler @GroseTimothy @sbtynen @He_Shumei @PLMattis @michael_ASPI @eschwarck @KelseyMunro @FergusHanson @DaniellesCave and others for their feedback on aspects of the project. The opinions/analysis are those of the lead authors alone as are any errors/omissions.

5/5 Thanks also to @badiucao for his cover illustration; @yaelwrites for sharing police files & @CDTChinese for hosting 中文版 at chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/672202…. View the interactive chart here: xjdp.aspi.org.au/chart and the report can be downloaded from here: aspi.org.au/report/archite…