Adrian Zenz
@adrianzenz
Director & Senior Fellow in China Studies at @VoCommunism. Researches Xinjiang & Tibet. Author of https://brill.com/view/title/24528?language=en
Major news: the @ILO adopts new forced labor measurement guidelines that squarely target Uyghur forced labor. Deeply humbled to see that they adopt my work in their new research guidance on state-imposed forced labor. An analysis is below and in the linked article:…
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:👇
After a government sponsored tour, @PrincetonUPress uses explicitly political language to celebrate party-state policies that removed the #Uyghur language from the education system. #China #Xinjiang
cc @PrincetonUPress
I guess that the Director of PUP does not read their own books. While this statement suggests a lack of understanding of the content of my book, it does use PUP's publication of my work as a means of whitewashing the Director's actions. Likely all about $.
Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:
Important new G7 statement on transnational repression (TNR), expressing intent to develop a sophisticated TNR response framework as part of the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism on foreign interference. I am generally seeing TNR being taken more seriously by western governments.👇
Gulshan Abbas marks her 7th year in a Chinese prison, sentenced to 20 years in 2019 to punish her sister Rushan Abbas' activism. The UN’s #WGAD deems her detention arbitrary and demands her immediate release. #FreeGulshanAbbas @RushanAbbas
Excited to speak alongside @adrianzenz at SUG’s first webinar launch. With recent reports exposing widespread forced labour in the Uyghur homeland, this couldn’t be more timely. Join us, register now and stand with us. @ipacglobal #StopUyghurGenocide #EndUyhurForcedLabour
🚨 LAST CHANCE to Register! 📅 Friday, 6 June | 🕓 16:00–17:00 (BST) 📍 FREE Live Webinar Truth in Plain Sight: The Evidence and Impact of Forced Labour 🎙 Featuring experts @adrianzenz & @MahmutRahima eventbrite.co.uk/e/truth-in-pla…
📢READ our new report: “'When They Came to Take Our Children': China’s Colonial Boarding Schools and the Future of Tibet” 👉tibetaction.net/when-they-came… 👉Press release: tibetaction.net/boarding-schoo… A short thread 🧵on what’s new in our latest report & why it matters: