Thanks @amyhawk_ for this thoughtful piece on the fragile memory of Tiananmen inside China. It quotes a @MinjianArchives editor, @ZhouFengSuo Jeff Wasserstrom and makes use of the Helmut Opletal visual archives.
https://t.co/yinulu5QnG
The full audio series on our work at @npr on Uyghurs in China is out early. We discovered new details of the role the Uyghurs played in Syria’s civil war and explore the thorny question of what is next for this large community in Syria https://t.co/vEmVvstMqN
Local residents say the level of displacement in the area is the worst they have ever seen, with nearly 20,000 now left homeless
https://t.co/YcMDlmc7S2
The writer, along with her translator Lin King, talks about using the power of fiction to bring Taiwan out of the shadow of China.
Tap here to read the interview: https://t.co/rU6c8r5e8H
As China’s graduates battle an increasingly hostile job market, some elite universities are offering courses that emphasise President Xi Jinping’s own writings, with units with titles such as: ‘Consistently Advance the New Great Project of Party Building’. https://t.co/WbbQZCiYWG
New @hrw report out today - "Start with the Youngest Children" - the Chinese government is imposing Chinese-language education and ideological indoctrination on kindergarten children in its efforts to force Tibetans to assimilate. https://t.co/AVmIcH7lSF
I left China after eight years. Here's what I experienced as a Japanese person reporting for an American outlet, at a time when a distrust of foreigners has come to permeate everyday life in China. https://t.co/kKHX5OdFbV via @WSJ
Between the Thai-Myanmar border towns of Mae Sot and Myawaddy, hundreds of people have found refuge from a five-year civil war that will be remembered for its relentless bombings by the military junta and its air force. https://t.co/Kx1DuUwWIA
The first picture of Aung San Suu Kyi in years - released tonight by Myanmar’s military-backed government which says it has moved her to house arrest. Suu Kyi, who is 80, has been in prison for five years since the armed forces seized power.
Tibetans in exile vote for a new government -- something that no one inside China is permitted to do. The Chinese Communist Party simply pretends that people want its dictatorship. https://t.co/ihp9TCoK4K
AFP | China and the regime have pledged to expand trade and security ties, especially along their border, during talks in the Southeast Asian nation with its junta chief-turned-president and both countries’ top diplomats.
Read here: https://t.co/OJz8N8LDmu
I am and will always be incredibly grateful to those who worked for my release when I was held hostage by an armed faction in Iraq earlier this month.
So many people – including but not limited to government officials, press freedom organisations, and my wonderful community of fellow journalists and friends - put an immense amount of effort into ensuring that the level of attention to my case remained high.
Thank you all so very, very much.
🇲🇲DOCUMENT, au cœur de la résistance en Birmanie. Depuis 5 ans, le pays est en proie à une guerre civile qui a déjà fait des dizaines de milliers de morts et plus de 3 millions de déplacés. Nos envoyés spéciaux ont pu filmer les jeunes résistants qui défient la junte militaire au pouvoir. #JT20h
New evidence has emerged which suggests that, far from ending their persecution in Xinjiang, the Chinese authorities simply have got better at hiding it.
Zhang Yabo, a former police officer, has fled the region and is now giving testimony on what he saw in torture prisons.
In a rare insight into China’s repressive apparatus, Zhang reveals that under Ma Xingrui, Xinjinag’s Communist Party Secretary from 2021 to 2025, the previous approach of highly visible mass internment was dropped in favour of highly concealed coercion. Easier to get away it in private…
✍️ Steerpike
Article | https://t.co/3E70CAcTMa
Happy to report that @shellykittleson is on her way to recovery and the epitome of resilience
You’ll hear from her soon
Thank you to everyone who helped to set her free