Tibetan groups and allies demonstrated in Taipei today to mark the 66th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day. Though the actual anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day
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In 2011, Donald Trump spoke before an audience of about a thousand in Las Vegas, teasing a prospective, if fanciful, presidential run. Halfway through a
China’s ongoing policies in Tibet have long been criticized for undermining the region’s cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. A particularly alarming aspect of this strategy
This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.
This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.
Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent Putinist ideologue from Russia, was in Delhi last week. There has been no critical scrutiny of his visit among political
‘Northern frontier culture’ (北疆文化, umrat khiliin soyol) has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. Numerous
This year marks 30 years since China launched its ambitious Tibet-Aid Project (援藏计划), a vast and ongoing party-state effort to reshape the region. Unveiled at
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Qiao Collective’s “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, published in the Monthly Review, is to what extent it focuses on
As thousands of bodies are blown apart in Gaza and children starve to death in the city’s rubble-strewn streets, numerous groups are exploiting this suffering
‘Speak Mandarin!’ At a concert in Macau in the autumn of 2023, Cantopop superstar Eason Chan used an interlude to talk about his songwriting process.
Author’s Preface to the Simplified Chinese Edition of In the Camps In his 2002 dissertation, Dr. Pan Yue, the current commissioner of China’s Ethnic Affairs Commission,
A recent exposé in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the
As with any other country, there are certainly factories with sweatshop conditions in China. But the motorcycle delivery driver and the burned-out office worker are
This question involves two common misunderstandings. First, “communist country” is an oxymoron: communism requires the end of nation-states, so it would be impossible for China
Socialism The concept of “socialism” itself has always been murky. In the past, it was used by both revolutionaries and by those seeking to reform
Money China is capitalist. It is capitalist both because it is fully integrated in the global capitalist system and because capitalist imperatives have penetrated all
Ruirui （a）If you’re a communist and you’re Chinese, why aren’t you a member of the CCP? How is this different from asking American or Japanese
A New Lines investigation reveals a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijing’s side on the genocide allegations — and they’re
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous
At this late stage in the game, one should not be surprised at how incredibly poor the western left’s understanding of China is. Many western
Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the
On May 2nd 2014, National China Offshore Oil Corporation dispatched the Hai Yang Shi You 981 oil platform to disputed waters off the southern edge