soyonbo.bsky.social
@soyonbo.bsky.social
Thanks to PEN America. When a language is taken away, it’s not just words that are lost, it’s memory, connection, and the ability to speak.
🧵 Over 6 million Mongolians live in China. Today, they face erasure of their identity online. In a new report, PEN America and the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center document the Chinese government’s tactics to silence cultural expression.

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January 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Grateful to collaborate with Professor Leibold on this work.
What mattered most in this process was taking policy discussions out of abstraction and grounding them in lived institutional realities. It is an honor.
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Rectifying Names, Erasing Mongols: The Unmaking of Mongolian Education in China
On a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised off the large Chinese and Mongolian signs running along the ...
madeinchinajournal.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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This new report from PEN America matters because it moves beyond policy language and looks at how repression actually works inside institutions.

Highly recommended.
“Save Our Mother Tongue”
Beijing has silenced Mongolian voices, all the while expanding its arsenal of tactics to influence the information ecosystem.
pen.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 AM
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Signal and Southern Mongolia
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Signal and Southern Mongolia
An Official Police Equipment List and its capabilities
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reposted
"The Weekly printed the piece, and it launched my career – which came to an end five years later, in 2020, when the government abruptly shuttered the magazine." —Soyonbo Borjgin for the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
www.equator.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Mongolians in Exile Welcome U.S. Senators Introducing Bipartisan Bill to Address Human Rights Violations in Southern Mongolia. For decades, many Mongolians have faced relentless efforts to erase our language, traditions, and way of life. From the closure of schools teaching in our (thread)
November 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM