Harry Saunders

Reporter @DominoTheoryMag
Contact me: [email protected]
Dm for Signal

[Tim Culpan @tculpan]

Wow. An amazing investigation by @harrysaunders & @imtienyikrislih for @DominoTheoryMag

And an indictment on the defense procurement process

Investigation: How Taiwan Botched a Plan to Counter Chinese Drones https://t.co/7NLVEqfcML

[Taiwan Defense @taiwandefense]

Investigation: How Taiwan Botched a Plan to Counter Chinese Drones
https://t.co/SwKZNOZlYi

[Mark Simon @MarkSimonHK]

This is a solid investigative piece on Taiwan’s drone efforts, a nation that does tech quite good., isn’t very good at all when it comes to drones..
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Investigation: How Taiwan Botched a Plan to Counter Chinese Drones https://t.co/V77hS1Fr52

[Mark Simon @MarkSimonHK]

Investigation: How Taiwan Botched a Plan to Counter Chinese Drones https://t.co/V77hS1Fr52

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Nice scoop, which raises a lot of alarming questions about defense procurement in Taiwan

https://t.co/Nj14mPP0kJ

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

INVESTIGATION: After Chinese drones harassed Kinmen in 2022, Taiwan launched a project to protect its front lines. Here's how it fell apart, @redharryng @imtienyikrislih report.
https://t.co/TyuLtEb1W9

[Josh Hoang-Wilkes @JoshuaMWilkes]

I'm really proud of my colleagues @redharryng and @imtienyikrislih for this report. I've watched them grind away at this for months.

TLDR: Taiwan kept trying to procure vital counter drone systems from a single company despite ever-dwindling evidence they could deliver.

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

SCOOP: Internal U.S. documents reveal planning behind @SenDuckworth's Taiwan trip, @redharryng
https://t.co/pbeYdlrwNI

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

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Greatly appreciated, @donovan_smith
https://t.co/4LQ0J0GHbn

[Harry Saunders @redharryng]

RT @RyanFedasiuk: This deep-dive by @DominoTheoryMag is the most comprehensive backgrounder I’ve seen on U.S.-China cooperation to curb the…

[Adrian Zenz @adrianzenz]

BREAKING: Former Xinjiang police officer (2014–2023) confirms that detentions and forced labor continue today.

From 2023, officials detained Uyghurs who avoided forced labor or allegedly disobeyed state orders. 🧵

Zhang, the former police officer, says that under Ma Xingrui, Chen Quanguo's successor, visible repression campaigns were replaced with hidden coercion. Village committees have unilateral authority to order residents to accept labor transfers. Refusal triggers up to 15 days in detention.

From 2023, authorities employed rolling, pre-emptive short-term detentions as calculated intimidation, designed to enforce total submission.

Zhang observed how Uyghur culture is now nearly extinct: the village he worked in has been largely emptied of working-age adults — many are in prison or shipped away for forced labor. Speaking Uyghur is prohibited in schools. Mosques are closed or guarded 24/7.

Zhang estimates a quarter of the adult population in his village was interned in re-education camps between 2017–2019, excluding those sent to prisons. Under Ma Xingrui, Chen Quanguo's successor, visible repression campaigns were replaced with hidden coercion.

In 2019, Zhang worked at the Hotan County re-education headquarters where detainee records were falsified and the true scale hidden even from higher-level authorities.

HOW COERCION WORKS:
Village committees have unilateral authority to order residents to accept labor transfers. Refusal triggers mandatory night school, unpaid communal labor, or up to 15 days in detention facilities.

My report in Foreign Policy outlines the details (link is below in the first comment)

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

BREAKING: Former U.S. admiral accuses Taiwanese political leaders of moving too slowly on reform. “You’re fiddling while Rome burns,” he said.
@JoshuaMWilkes
https://t.co/nlqlSAyFO3

[Adrian Zenz @adrianzenz]

More problematic than fake AI citations is what you don't cite: multitudes of other sources, incl. peer-reviewed academic work by numerous scholars, a large body of witness testimony, etc.

From 2021-2024 I alone published 8 peer-reviewed academic articles on Xinjiang, alongside numerous articles and books published by other scholars with extensive regional expertise, alongside pertinent qualitative and quantitative data published by the state itself.

The article doesn't cite any Western academic work on Xinjiang published after 2021, and fails to state the correct official Chinese term for the re-education camps established in 2018 (not 2019). No effort was made to include or analyze more up-to-date sources.

Why do the authors, who otherwise claim support the causes of the oppressed, take the side of the colonizers rather than the colonized? Why are the voices of the colonized (Uyghurs, Kazakhs, etc.) erased and ignored? This is perhaps the most egregious aspect of this decidedly sub-par piece of work. @vijayprashad

[Gene Bunin @GeneBunin]

This article is essentially bad-faith hogwash, and writing a full list of factual errors and misrepresentations would take a good day (which is better devoted to victims).

I'm going to pick at the few that stood out after a quick skim. (1/7)

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

Cheng is asked whether she now shares Xi Jinping's vision for reunification. "This is something we will do little by little, a road we will walk step by step," Cheng says.

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

LIVE: Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun speaks after meeting with Xi Jinping,
https://t.co/xhv68HhXnd

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

Taiwan is looking to import more migrant workers due to declining demographics, while finalizing a labor agreement with India to help fill a projected deficit of 400,000 workers by 2030 @imtienyikrislih
https://t.co/hd4QoJ1qM6

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

BREAKING: Taiwan's main opposition the KMT said on Monday that its chairwoman, Cheng Li-wun, has accepted an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party’s Central Committee to lead a party delegation to China.

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

From initial denials, through later partial acknowledgment and “legalization,” to rapid downsizing and eventual formal closure, the Chinese government’s handling of the re-education camps in Xinjiang suggests a series of unintended shifts. https://t.co/2KLmOpnLmP

[Domino Theory @DominoTheoryMag]

Did Western scrutiny of China's crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang make a difference to Xi Jinping and his cadres in Beijing? @redharryng reports.
https://t.co/qrbmC7FA8T