Collective Study
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Collective Study
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🟨 Independent news, research and investigations on human rights and authoritarianism in the PRC 🟥 Free issues​ https://buttondown.com/collectivestudy 🟨 [email protected]
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Dutch Ambassador for Human Rights and former Ambassador to China:
Joint statement with European colleagues on the succession of the #DalaiLama. @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social @nlinchina.bsky.social
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The Intl Day in Support of Victims of Torture has passed, but #XieYang remains behind bars—3.5 years without trial. He defended pro-democracy protesters & activists until #ChinaGov arrested him for it--then tortured him in detention.
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The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department.

Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
‘DeepChina’ Substack exposed: covert United Front ‘opinion and cognitive warfare’ project targets international China scholars (Collective Study Issue 04)
A review by Collective Study of Party propaganda documents, journal articles, and other official sources reveals that the DeepChina Substack account — which...
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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’.
Collective Study (Issue 03): CCP Youth Work, Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Assimilation
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27 May 14:00 - 15:30

Beyond #Xinjiang

Join our online seminar exploring how #China’s securitization policies impact #Muslim minorities 🕌 — with a focus on #Uyghur and #Hui communities: www.remote-xuar.com/events/beyon...
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#China's state-led #environmentalism 🌿 is reshaping life on its western frontiers — but often at the expense of #ethnic minority herders. Join our Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 9 May to learn how these environmental policies have been negotiated on the ground:

www.remote-xuar.com/events/lives... 🐫
Xi commended volunteers at a Xinjiang boarding school in a letter marking Youth Day on May 4:

'more young people have chosen to serve as volunteers in the country's western regions and rural areas over the years, demonstrating their spirit of dedication and sense of responsibility.'
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’.
Collective Study (Issue 03): CCP Youth Work, Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Assimilation
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Half of RFA’s language services will no longer produce new content: RFA Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur, and Lao. Also, ceasing operations will be Asia Fact Check Lab, a special unit focused on picking apart false narratives seeded by the Chinese Communist Party.

www.rfa.org/english/abou...
RFA announces mass layoffs, shutdown of major language services
Uyghur, Tibetan, Burmese will halt content production, programming on May 9
www.rfa.org
"Tibetans have not witnessed such strong support for Tibet in a European parliament in many years, except in the Czech Republic."
Three Dutch parliament motions recently passed including appointing a special EU rep to Tibet, urging the government to repeatedly raise #Tibet with China, and reiterating that the CCP must have no say in the Dalai Lama’s succession.

Read more: savetibet.org/dutch-parlia...
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"During at least seven of Xi’s 31 international trips between 2019 and 2024, local law enforcement infringed on dozens of protesters’ rights in order to shield the Chinese president from dissent, detaining or arresting activists, often for spurious reasons."
As President Xi Jinping traveled the world, police swept peaceful protesters off the streets - ICIJ
In country after country, local authorities detained and silenced activists to shield the Chinese leader from dissent.
www.icij.org
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Indeed, refuting Taiwan's deep #Austronesian connection is a high priority for the CCP, as noted in a recent report highlighting the United Front propaganda work by the party-sponsored #Substack, DeepChina, which has been attempting to masquerade as neutral academia. buttondown.com/collectivest...
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See recent @collectivestudy.bsky.social pieces on various Party efforts to promote 'Community for the Chinese Nation' (中華民族共同體) domestically and abroad:

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political slogan-led knowledge production is not uncommon in the PRC, but the speed and scale with which a slogan is turned into an *entire discipline* is quite unprecedented
Xi first mentioned the term 中华民族共同体 (community of the zhonghua minzu) in 2014
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...
China expands initiative to stamp out Western bias in ethnic studies
Beijing approves 15 more universities to establish new academic programme as it works to consolidate national identity narrative.
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China expands initiative to stamp out Western bias [sic] in ethnic studies [sic] – SCMP: ‘set up study programmes in “community for the Chinese nation”’ ‘as Beijing works to consolidate its narrative on a unified national identity.’
China expands initiative to stamp out Western bias in ethnic studies
Beijing approves 15 more universities to establish new academic programme as it works to consolidate national identity narrative.
www.scmp.com
The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department.

Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.
‘DeepChina’ Substack exposed: covert United Front ‘opinion and cognitive warfare’ project targets international China scholars (Collective Study Issue 04)
A review by Collective Study of Party propaganda documents, journal articles, and other official sources reveals that the DeepChina Substack account — which...
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'One of the two detained reporters taken away is the president of the Macau Journalists Association, the press union said on Friday.'