Anoop Singh

Big Picture,Great Powers,Military History,Technology & Poetry. De-mystifying China and its Army through primary source analysis. Can speak Chinese.

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Article 20 of the law says..

“Parents or other guardians of minors shall, in accordance with the law, fulfill their responsibilities for family education, educating and guiding minors to love the Communist Party of China, the motherland, the people, and the Chinese nation, and to cultivate a sense of unity among all Chinese people.

They shall not instill in minors any ideas detrimental to national unity and progress.”

Read the full summary of this critically important law at the attached tweet..

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

China passed a Law on Ethnic Unity (民族團結法) on 12 March 2026 and it is applicable from 01 July 2026.

What is significant is the over-arching mandate of the law. From families to religious organisations, businesses and students all are affected by the provisions of the law. For example the law makes Mandarin as the basic language in all ethnic regions including Tibet and Xinjiang. The law is also applicable on overseas Chinese personnel.

I expect the law to have a significant impact in Tibet and Xinjiang in due time. Therefore reading of this law forms an important basis for future assessment of happenings in the region.

My summary of key takeaways and important provisions of the law can be accessed here,

https://t.co/MZi0bTAJ9S

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

The case was subsequently retried by the military court of the Urumqi Military Command, which commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In 1985, the sentence was further reduced to a 15-year fixed-term imprisonment.

As part of the effort to rectify the erroneous decision to “withdraw the Han population,” Wang Zhen [PLA General and first head of XPCC when it was established in 1954] proposed in 1981 that the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) be restored.

In October of that same year, Deng Xiaoping also stated: “The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps—now known as the agricultural reclamation forces—is the core of stability in Xinjiang; it must be restored.“

On June 1, 1982, a ceremony celebrating the restoration of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was held in Urumqi.

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

On August 2, 1980, a convoy from the Logistics Department of the Urumqi Military Region was returning to Xinjiang from the Ngari Prefecture in Tibet after completing a mission to transport military supplies.

While passing through Yecheng County, the personnel spotted four yaks; mistaking them for wild yaks, they shot, skinned, and butchered them.

Local herders witnessed the act and alerted a nearby road maintenance station—the yaks, it turned out, were state-owned property managed by the station. When the convoy later passed the station, the road workers intercepted it.

The soldiers guarding the convoy, believing they were being waylaid by hostile individuals, fired warning shots after the workers began brandishing weapons and smashing vehicles.

In the process, a soldier named Gao Xu accidentally shot and wounded a road worker, Hafiz Abdulla, who subsequently died.

See full details of the incident and its fallout at my substack, link in attached tweet…

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

“Gao Xu (高旭) Incident” of Xinjiang, wherein an ethnic Uyghur Muslim was killed by a PLA Soldier in South Xinjiang Military District....

https://t.co/HPpaHDKLMw

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

a month later, when the South Xinjiang Military District’s military court convened in Shule to try the case of Gao Xu, certain leaders—including the Political Commissar of the Urumqi Military District and the First Secretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Wang—pre-emptively demanded a death sentence.

On September 13, the military court of the Southern Xinjiang Military Command sentenced Gao Xu to death. This decision intensified the discontent among Han Chinese cadres and employees in Xinjiang—particularly in the southern region—leading to incidents involving gatherings, incursions, and other actions.

This marked the first instance in the history of the People’s Republic of China where a prisoner sentenced to death was forcibly taken from custody.
After being seized from his guards by a crowd of Han Chinese, Gao Xu refused to escape. Han Chinese residents in Southern Xinjiang continued to visit him at the detention center, bringing him items such as hens, canned goods, alcohol, fruit, and cigarettes.

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@GFWfrog 这本书真是他写的吗？压力管理 😂

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Irrespective of how many people were going to Bangladesh to show India in poor light, it’s a detestable activity..

I think it’s generally acknowledged in India that China is a major power/ great power..which is a fair assessment..

While many people do not trouble themselves with making effort to know a faraway place..many still do..I am reminded of Hiuen Tsang’s travel to India centuries ago..he was a legend to walk thousands of kilometres and travel 10 years to gain that knowledge which he aspired for

India is so large, consists of so many peoples and cultures living together of millennia..that it’s impossible not to find anything good, if You looking for it..

My own study of China..stems from my desire to know its long history, its people..culture and so on..contemporary aspects are just a part of this study

Point about great powers and arrogance..I disagree with You..humility makes a great person greater in my opinion..

lastly ‘A spirit of enquiry must lead us in all directions’…true everywhere and for everyone

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Unfortunately Chinese social media is filled with derogatory comments on India..

This self sustaining cycle is fed by such videos which only aim to confirm to stereotype opinions for generating more views

With more and more Chinese people joining @X, I hope they use this direct access to present a balanced and informed picture of India on Weibo..

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

An extraordinary investigation by Bangladesh’s leading newspaper, Prothom Alo, has exposed a Chinese influence operation in Dhaka. More than 150 Chinese streamers have been livestreaming on WeChat from the city’s slums for months, presenting the locations to their Chinese audiences as New Delhi, India.

Prothom Alo investigated the activity, examined their Chinese-language broadcasts and had the translations verified by four Bangladeshis familiar with the language. The findings are quite revealing. The streamers were not merely misidentifying the location. They were portraying Indians as living in filthy, impoverished conditions, while describing the surroundings as New Delhi. One woman was even caught explicitly telling her viewers that she was showing them New Delhi while livestreaming from a neighbourhood in Dhaka.

This is how information warfare and perception-shaping work. Footage from Bangladesh is being deliberately passed off as footage from India to manufacture negative perceptions of the country. A disturbing example of how anti-India narratives and hate campaigns are manufactured and amplified through social media.

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

“Gao Xu (高旭) Incident” of Xinjiang, wherein an ethnic Uyghur Muslim was killed by a PLA Soldier in South Xinjiang Military District....

https://t.co/HPpaHDKLMw

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Agree with this. High quality Research requires investment into research..and mechanisms to ensure quality and relevance of research works

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

India is waging a war against its own researchers:

In Careers360’s Research Summit, Prof. Ram Gopal Rao, Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani described India’s lack of investment in research beautifully. He said “India’s Higher Education is described as African Budgets, American ambitions, Russian methods, Chinese opacity and Indian Bureaucracy.
In the past decade, we have seen a slide in scientific temper and investments in research.
1. Non-NET fellowship are stuck at ₹8,000 a month since 2012, for 16,270 scholars in 45 central universities.
2. JRF stipend: In 2014, the JRF was Rs.25,000 per month. In 2019, it was revised to Rs.31m000. it is ₹37,000 PM. The hrowth hasn’t even kept pace with inflation and in real terms, it has FALLEN. IISc scholars even went on a hunger strike demanding an increase.
3. Maulana Azad fellowship: where more than 1,400 scholars have had stipends stalled since January 2025.
4. OBC fellowships: lists for three NET cycles in 2024-25 were held back, which the social justice ministry put down to insufficient funds.
5. INSPIRE: fellows have their stipends unpaid for 3 to 9 months. The schemes now under Vigyan Dhara fell 67.5% between 2016 and 2025.
6. KVPY: scrapped in 2022, after nearly two lakh students a year had taken its test.
7. JRF bottleneck: only 5,108 of 7,35,614 candidates (0.7%) got JRF in December 2025. Minister Sukanta Majumdar gave no year-wise data when asked.
8. The University of Hyderabad stopped Rohit Vemula’s ₹25,000 stipend in July 2015, and his last letter said he hadn’t been paid for seven months. He later committed suicide.
9. India’s R&D spending: fell from 0.82% of GDP in 2009-10 to 0.64% in 2020-21. PMRF spending was revised to ₹290 crore, less than half its ₹600 crore outlay.
10. SC fellowships: fell 61%, from 4,841 to 1,872, between 2020-21 and 2022-23.
If India indeed wants to be a Vishwa Guru, India should be investing in research, in creating quality Higher-Ed institutions. We cannot be cutting down on stipends, not paying our researchers, holding back payments, scrapping scholarships, not increasing fellowship amounts even to match inflation and still expect students to choose research.

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@ChineseGent @Xgavijao2 谢谢为你的看法…

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping confirmed [the offer of package solution] in 1982, when he met an Indian delegation from the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

Deng said,

“As long as both sides adopt a reasonable and fair approach, I do not think the border issue is difficult to resolve. When I met your former foreign minister in 1979, I proposed a ‘package solution (一揽子解决)’: you make some concessions, and we make some—that would settle the matter.

After all, this is a legacy of history; you have to consider the sentiments of your people, and so do we. Only by adopting a ‘package solution’ can each side persuade its own people.”

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

Quoting extensively from Chinese primary sources, may read my article “Chinese Perspectives on the India-China Boundary Question”, published by Centre for Aerospace Power & Strategic Studies (CAPSS) here,

https://t.co/4XsHqlna0r

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

What is significant is the over-arching mandate of the law. Such as,

1-The families are responsible for instilling in their minor kids love for Communist Party (Article 20).

2-Mandarin has been made basic language to be used by educational institutions (Article 15).

3-Citizens of any part of China can seek employment or start a business in ethnic areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang (Article 25).

4-Religious organizations, religious schools, and places of religious activity are required to conduct publicity and education and adhere to the Sinicization of religion in country (Article 46).

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

China passed a Law on Ethnic Unity (民族團結法) on 12 March 2026 and it is applicable from 01 July 2026.

What is significant is the over-arching mandate of the law. From families to religious organisations, businesses and students all are affected by the provisions of the law. For example the law makes Mandarin as the basic language in all ethnic regions including Tibet and Xinjiang. The law is also applicable on overseas Chinese personnel.

I expect the law to have a significant impact in Tibet and Xinjiang in due time. Therefore reading of this law forms an important basis for future assessment of happenings in the region.

My summary of key takeaways and important provisions of the law can be accessed here,

https://t.co/MZi0bTAJ9S

[General Upendra Dwivedi 🇮🇳 @UpendraAZ]

Silchar: Inaugurated an ICMR-backed proteomics facility at Cachar Cancer Hospital, led by Dr R Ravi Kannan, Padma Shri and Ramon Magsaysay Awardee. Full credit to him and his doctors: 80% of their patients are daily-wage earners, and each gets their devotion.
The hospital began in 1992 as a people’s movement. Today it is a lifeline for southern Assam and the wider #NorthEast , where such care is scarce. My tribute to the patients, the doctors, and Dr S Krishnamurthi, who held that research must reach “the last man on the street”.
At the memorial lecture in his name, my theme was protector and healer: one calling, two uniforms. Both learn, lead, serve. Both are needed for #ViksitBharat 2047.
The questions on Op Sindoor and the North East were sharp. My message to the young: in future conflict no region is a bystander. Cyber, information, space and economic warfare reach every citizen. Be an enabler. Be the first village, not the last.
Dhonnobad, Silchar.
@DrRRaviKannan @CCHRCCancerCare

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@Xgavijao2 还可以解决吧！我希望两国家的斯文人还可以找到什么的好办法…你思维什么？

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@cyminzhu 哥哥..我真的一般人..我希望好学习中国和它的不同的方面…好好交流跟中国人..谢谢

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

I dont know if many people are aware that General Zhang Shangmin (张升民), who was appointed as CMC Vice Chairman in October 2025 has served his entire early career in Western Theatre Command

Zhang was a political officer in Artillery and served in erstwhile Lanzhou MR (which was a Military Region and was responsible for Northern half of WTC). Zhang served in 141 Division/ 47 Group Army/ Lanzhou MR between 1978-87. Then moved to Lanzhou MR General Office Political Division between 1987-93. Thus a total of 15 Years in WTC.

Subsequently he remained in Beijing as part of General Political Department between 1993-2004 and later from 2015 as part of CMC. He was appointed a CMC member in 2017. For 11 years in between he served in
Second Artillery (2004-2015).

Zhang has been looking after CMC Discipline Inspection Commission since 2017 and is the key man behind high level purges within senior leadership of PLA.

His full Resume can be accessed here.
https://t.co/tXMEuXjGzU

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

China passed a Law on Ethnic Unity (民族團結法) on 12 March 2026 and it is applicable from 01 July 2026.

What is significant is the over-arching mandate of the law. From families to religious organisations, businesses and students all are affected by the provisions of the law. For example the law makes Mandarin as the basic language in all ethnic regions including Tibet and Xinjiang. The law is also applicable on overseas Chinese personnel.

I expect the law to have a significant impact in Tibet and Xinjiang in due time. Therefore reading of this law forms an important basis for future assessment of happenings in the region.

My summary of key takeaways and important provisions of the law can be accessed here,

https://t.co/MZi0bTAJ9S

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@cyminzhu 谢谢…告诉我的别的分吧…我希望你知道..

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@cyminzhu 你呢？

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@DefenseWatchHQ That’s another angle to think about..thanks

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

There was a change in government. The offer was made to then foreign minister Atal ji in 1979. In 1982, Deng Xiaoping asked the Cultural delegation to convey the same to Smt Indira Gandhi since government in India changed in January 1980 and Indira Ji became Prime Minister

A research paper by Mr Sumit Ganguly quoted in the article suggests that delegations of both sides were close to an agreement in 1984..but since elections were scheduled in 1985, issue was put on back burner. Subsequently we are well aware that Indira Ji was assassinated in October 1984

May see excerpts of Mr Ganguly’s research here..

[Anoop Singh @newreck]

@gtmbisht82 @grok The package solution till 1980s was a ‘status quo’ solution..after 1985, Chinese side kept using the term ‘package solution’ but its meaning changed..may see details in the article to understand Chinese demands post 1985