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  1. “Canada’s #mining and processing sector operates under #environmental, #Indigenousrights, and #labourstandards frameworks that, whatever their imperfections, are verifiable and legally accountable in ways that #Xinjiang production is not.” open.substack.com/pub/barryapp...

    The Same Instrument

  2. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16/c. "Beijing has not dismantled its #machinery of #repression in #Xinjiang but recalibrated it. Coercive #policies dominate ordinary life, but they have become more clandestine & decentralized, making them harder for the outside world to detect." Please NB, @andrewstroehlein, @humanrightswatch.

  3. 'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'

    #DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs

    tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismiss
    #campism #PRC

  4. 'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'

    #DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs

    tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismiss
    #campism #PRC

  5. 'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'

    #DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs

    tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismiss
    #campism #PRC

  6. 'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'

    #DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs

    tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismiss
    #campism #PRC

  7. 'Since when has the Left considered the political status of a territory millennia in the past to have any bearing on the justice of its political configuration in the present? What business is it of today’s radicals to plumb dynastic chronicles to decide whether this or that piece of land rightfully “belongs” to a modern state?'

    #DavidBrophy's riposte to the Vijay Prashad/Tings Chak article in Monthly Review on #Xinjiang and #China's treatment of #Uyghurs

    tempestmag.org/2026/04/dismiss
    #campism #PRC

  8. Read an analysis that claimed that Chinese solar is "unfairly criticized" that then went on to make no mention of any of the many #humanrights concerns linked to solar production, such as #Uyghur forced labor in #Xinjiang.

    How is the solution to "unfair" criticism to put out biased de-facto promotion?

  9. @alxd With solar cells IMO made by Uyghur slaves abducted by the CCP from Xinjiang as a part of genocide and ethnic cleansing?

    Resource intensive neural network algorithm - not OK
    Forced labor - OK
    Slavery - OK
    Abduction - OK
    Dictatorship - OK
    Authoritarianism - OK
    Totalitarianism - OK
    Genocide - OK
    Ethnic cleansing - OK

    Am I understanding the values correctly?

    #hypocrisy #ai #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #slavery #abduction #dictaorship #authoritarianism #totalitarianism #genocide #ethniccleansing #ccp #xinjiang #uyghur #uyghurs #uyghurgenocide #values #value

  10. Chinese man who filmed evidence of Xinjiang rights abuses is granted asylum in US

    A US immigration judge has granted asylum to a Chinese national who he said had a “well founded fear” of persecution if sent back to China after exposing alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs there.

    Guan Heng applied for asylum after arriving in the US illegally in 2021.

  11. Could flying wind farms be the future of energy generation in China?

    A giant airship launched in a densely populated area of southwestern China earlier this month has set social…
    #Energy #Beijing #ChinaEnergyEngineeringCorporation #GobiDesert #InnerMongolia #S2000 #SawesEnergyTechnology #Sichuan #xinjiang #Yibin
    europesays.com/2711637/

  12. Horses gallop through the snow at a wetland park in north-west China’s #Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

    Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

    #photography
    #China
    #horses
    #winter

  13. "A Chinese citizen who fled the country after gathering evidence of alleged human-rights violations against the nation’s Uyghur population is at risk of being returned there after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]"

    wsj.com/world/china/ice-holdin

    #China #Xinjiang

  14. De reis van Xuan Zang (1)

    Xuan Zang

    Ik ben niet zo vertrouwd met het boeddhisme, maar dankzij een blogje van Kees Alders weet ik dat in de eerste eeuw van onze jaartelling de boeddhistische stroming die bekendstaat als Mahayana zich vanuit de Punjab verspreidde tot in China. (Ik begrijp dat aanhangers van deze stroming denken dat niet alleen Boeddha, maar ieder mens in staat is verlicht te raken, en dat ze iemand die daarnaar streeft een Bodhisattva noemen.) De verspreiding van deze ideeën richting China was mogelijk doordat Centraal-Azië én de Punjab waren verenigd in het rijk van de Kushana’s.

    Pelgrim en boekenzoeker

    Uiteraard waren er vrome Chinese boeddhisten die geïnteresseerd waren in het land waar hun levensbeschouwelijke opvattingen waren ontstaan. Talloze pelgrims trokken over de Himalaya naar India. Ik blogde al eens over het onderzoek van de Leidse onderzoekster Marike van Aerde, die zich bezighoudt met de rotstekeningen uit het gebied van de Boven-Indus. Niet iedereen nam de weg over de hoge bergen. De Chinese reiziger Xuan Zang reisde vanuit Xinjiang langs een noordelijkere en westelijker route, door de Ferganavallei, door Sogdië en Baktrië, over de Hindu Kush en door Gandara naar de Punjab.

    U moet bij een pelgrim niet per se denken aan een arme sloeber die de hele reis wandelend aflegt. Ook rijke mensen maakten pelgrimages. Ook moet u niet denken aan een reis die alleen maar gericht was op het bereiken van een heiligdom, want wie het buitenland bezocht maakte zó veel mee dat het jammer zou zijn er niet ten volle profijt van te hebben. Xuan Zang was ambitieus: hij maakte zich zorgen over het feit dat er in China uiteenlopende visies waren op het boeddhisme, die volgens hem samenhingen met het feit dat de grondteksten verkeerd waren vertaald. Dus was één van de doelen van zijn reis het bemachtigen van de originele teksten. Zeventien jaar lang reisde hij van klooster naar stad naar klooster naar stad.

    De stichters van een boeddhistisch klooster aan de noordrand van de Taklamakanwoestijn (Humboldtforum, Berlijn)

    Sogdië

    Hij vertrok in 627, ongeveer vijfentwintig jaar oud, in het volle bewustzijn dat zijn leven niet zelden in gevaar zou zijn.

    Het doel van mijn reis was niet het verwerven van persoonlijke gunsten. Het was omdat ik bezorgd was omdat de boeddhistische leer in mijn land onvolmaakt was doordat de geschriften onvolledig waren. Omdat ik zo veel twijfels had, ging ik op zoek naar de waarheid, en dus besloot ik om met gevaar voor eigen leven naar het Westen te reizen om leerstellingen te zoeken waarvan ik nog nooit had gehoord, opdat de dauw van het Mahayana-boeddhisme niet alleen langs de Ganges verspreid zou zijn, maar dat de sublieme waarheid ook bekend zou zijn in het oostelijke land.

    En al snel bleek hoe veel gevaar hij liep. Hij reisde langs de noordelijke rand van de  Taklamakanwoestijn, waar al die boeddhistische grotschilderingen zijn gevonden die u nu in Berlijn kunt zien. Al vóór Xuan Zang het westelijke Kashgar had bereikt, was zijn karavaan overvallen door rovers. Die kregen vervolgens ruzie over de buit, waardoor het reisgezelschap zélf ongehinderd verder kon. Via een vroeg Turks rijk bereikte hij Tasjkent, Samarkand, Buchara en uiteindelijk Balch, het toenmalige Baktra. Daarop volgde Bamiyan, dat u zich wellicht herinnert van de enorme Boeddhabeelden die de Taliban in 2001 hebben vernietigd.

    Een Boeddha uit Bamiyan (Musée Guimet, Parijs)

    Gandara

    De volgende halteplaats was Kapisa, niet ver van het huidige Kaboel. Waren de boeddhisten die hij tot dan toe had leren kennen soms nogal laks in de juiste leer geweest, vanaf nu was Xuan Zang in gebieden waar ze de Mahayana-leer volgden, al woonden er ook hindoes (“ketters die naakt rond lopen en stof op hun lichamen smeren”). Diverse stupa’s in deze regio zouden zijn gebouwd door Ashoka, de grootste koning van het Maurya-rijk.

    Hier, in Gandara, bezocht Xuan Zang de belangrijke steden Peshawar en Pushkalavati, en vervolgens trok hij naar de rivier de Swat. Hij behandelt hier legenden over hoe Boeddha hier een van zijn eerdere levens, toen hij nog een Bodhisattva was, heeft doorgebracht. Na de Indus te hebben overgestoken (“een rivier vol giftige draken en gevaarlijke beesten”), bereikte hij Taxila, waar hij verbleef in een klooster om teksten te kopiëren. Korte tijd later deed hij datzelfde in Kasjmir. Dit is belangrijk, want deze regio is niet veel later door de moslims overgenomen en de oudere hindoeïstische en boeddhistische tradities zijn verloren gegaan.

    [Wordt morgen vervolgd]

    Deze blog, die u ook via het Whatsapp-kanaal kunt volgen, is niet mijn enige activiteit. In het voorjaar organiseer ik een reis naar Bulgarije en een andere reis langs Keltische locaties.

    Zelfde tijdvak


    De jonge islam

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    december 22, 2016
    Laatantiek Andalusië

    oktober 3, 2024 Deel dit:

    #Ashoka #Baktra #Baktrië #Bamiyan #Boeddha #boeddhisme #Gandara #India #Kapilavastu #Kapisa #Kashgar #Kashmir #Mahayana #Punjab #Sogdië #TangDynastie #Xinjiang #XuanZang

  15. Voici la nouvelle image du #BHV : low-cost, bas de gamme, plus que douteuse, complice du travail forcé… #FrédéricMerlin #SGM #DonaldTang #Pollution #Xinjiang Pas de #Shein en France ! #Pétition : www.change.org/p/interdire-... Pas de Shein au BHV : petition.qomon.org/pas-de-shein...

  16. "In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

    Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

    theguardian.com/education/2025

    [Edit: more background on the topic thebureauinvestigates.com/stor]

    #AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

  17. Critically, American #surveillance #technologies allowed a brutal mass #detention campaign in the far west region of #Xinjiang — targeting, tracking & grading virtually the entire native #Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate & subdue them.

    #US #tech companies did this by bringing “#PredictivePolicing” to #China#technology that sucks in & analyzes data to prevent crime, protests, or terror attacks before they happen.

    #HumanRights #government #DigitalPoliceState #InternationalLaw #law

  18. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” - Keine schönen Zukunftsaussichten der #Uiguren. Harmlose WeChat-Posts an einem Feiertag führen in #Xinjiang zu diakonischen Strafen. Krasse Unterdrückung in #China.
    uyghurhjelp.org/2025/08/one-me

  19. Three years after a major UN report confirmed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China still evades accountability. Families of detainees suffer in silence as global inaction persists. The call for justice and freedom grows louder. 🕊️ #Xinjiang #HumanRights #JusticeNow

    Read more: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202
    #newz

  20. At our most recent protest outside the #Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, we learned about the problem of forced labor in the #mining industry. East Turkistan (a.k.a. #Xinjiang) is a source of #titanium, #lithium, #beryllium, and #magnesium. Of particular concern is beryllium, for which East Turkistan is China's top source. For more information, read either of the following articles.

    rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/06

    globalrightscompliance.org/cm/

    #China #ForcedLabor #ModernSlavery #Uyghur #XUAR

  21. Our April 2025 protest took place on Yom HaShoah, a day when people who died during the #Holocaust are remembered. We said "Never again!" to #genocide as we protested the Chinese government's genocide of its #Uyghur population.

    #YomHaShoah #TikkunOlam #HumanRights #China #Xinjiang #EastTurkistan #NeverAgain

  22. Our #protests outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC attract a wide variety of people, including this handsome young man. We appreciate his commitment to protesting against the Chinese government's ongoing #genocide of the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (a.k.a. #Xinjiang).

    #DogsOfMastodon #Uyghur #HumanRights #EastTurkistan #China #CCP #dog #GSD #GermanShepherd

  23. In February, we once again protested in the dark outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, calling upon the Chinese government to end its #genocide of the #Uyghur people of #EastTurkistan (a.k.a. #Xinjiang).

    #China #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  24. What is the current situation of #EastTurkestan, aka #XinJiang? Is there a real #genocide? No one knows. But the fact is, Uyghurs are being forcefully assimilated and they are discriminated against in #China. Uyghur as a language is related to #Turkish and is totally unrelated to #Chinese. Many kids are forced to learn Chinese and give up #Uyghur. I first heard this Uyghur song when Youtube just started to become popular many years ago. I can play it on my guitar.

    youtube.com/watch?v=CaaCjHHinz

  25. What is the current situation of #EastTurkestan, aka #XinJiang? Is there a real #genocide? No one knows. But the fact is, Uyghurs are being forcefully assimilated and they are discriminated against in #China. Uyghur as a language is related to #Turkish and is totally unrelated to #Chinese. Many kids are forced to learn Chinese and give up #Uyghur. I first heard this Uyghur song when Youtube just started to become popular many years ago. I can play it on my guitar.

    youtube.com/watch?v=CaaCjHHinz

  26. What is the current situation of #EastTurkestan, aka #XinJiang? Is there a real #genocide? No one knows. But the fact is, Uyghurs are being forcefully assimilated and they are discriminated against in #China. Uyghur as a language is related to #Turkish and is totally unrelated to #Chinese. Many kids are forced to learn Chinese and give up #Uyghur. I first heard this Uyghur song when Youtube just started to become popular many years ago. I can play it on my guitar.

    youtube.com/watch?v=CaaCjHHinz

  27. What is the current situation of #EastTurkestan, aka #XinJiang? Is there a real #genocide? No one knows. But the fact is, Uyghurs are being forcefully assimilated and they are discriminated against in #China. Uyghur as a language is related to #Turkish and is totally unrelated to #Chinese. Many kids are forced to learn Chinese and give up #Uyghur. I first heard this Uyghur song when Youtube just started to become popular many years ago. I can play it on my guitar.

    youtube.com/watch?v=CaaCjHHinz

  28. In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  29. In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  30. In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  31. In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  32. In January, we once again protested in the dark and cold outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, demanding an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). During our #protest, we read about four Uyghurs who are imprisoned in China, and read two poems by Uyghurs.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  33. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  34. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  35. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  36. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  37. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold and dark to attend our final #protest of 2024. We met outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC to demand an end to the Chinese government's #genocide of the #Uyghur population of #Xinjiang (a.k.a. #EastTurkistan or #EastTurkestan). We were honored to be joined by members of the Uyghur community.

    #China #CCP #TikkunOlam #HumanRights

  38. Highly 💯 recommended read: A recap of Northeast Asia’s unresolved conflicts of the past, now rearing their ugly head

    This would be a great intro *before* any North Asian 101, with some cheeky entertaining bits as well... 🤓

    “For starters, we can blame the Manchurians for invading China, the Uighurs, Mongolia, Tibet and Taiwan, calling it the Qing Dynasty and moving their emperor to Beijing, which was more centrally located and had a better nightlife.” 😁

    “[Kuomintang] eventually succeeded, and established the Republic of China (ROC). Once in power, they changed their minds and claimed that “China” meant the entirety of the Qing Empire, which makes about as much sense as the Turks claiming the entirety of the Ottoman Empire.” 🔥

    #Taiwan #KMT #china #CCP #Qing #Mongolia #Tibet #EastTurkestan #xinjiang #Manchuria #Korea #Japan

    federated.press/@donovan_smith

    taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch

  39. Highly 💯 recommended read: A recap of Northeast Asia’s unresolved conflicts of the past, now rearing their ugly head

    This would be a great intro *before* any North Asian 101, with some cheeky entertaining bits as well... 🤓

    “For starters, we can blame the Manchurians for invading China, the Uighurs, Mongolia, Tibet and Taiwan, calling it the Qing Dynasty and moving their emperor to Beijing, which was more centrally located and had a better nightlife.” 😁

    “[Kuomintang] eventually succeeded, and established the Republic of China (ROC). Once in power, they changed their minds and claimed that “China” meant the entirety of the Qing Empire, which makes about as much sense as the Turks claiming the entirety of the Ottoman Empire.” 🔥

    #Taiwan #KMT #china #CCP #Qing #Mongolia #Tibet #EastTurkestan #xinjiang #Manchuria #Korea #Japan

    federated.press/@donovan_smith

    taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch

  40. Highly 💯 recommended read: A recap of Northeast Asia’s unresolved conflicts of the past, now rearing their ugly head

    This would be a great intro *before* any North Asian 101, with some cheeky entertaining bits as well... 🤓

    “For starters, we can blame the Manchurians for invading China, the Uighurs, Mongolia, Tibet and Taiwan, calling it the Qing Dynasty and moving their emperor to Beijing, which was more centrally located and had a better nightlife.” 😁

    “[Kuomintang] eventually succeeded, and established the Republic of China (ROC). Once in power, they changed their minds and claimed that “China” meant the entirety of the Qing Empire, which makes about as much sense as the Turks claiming the entirety of the Ottoman Empire.” 🔥

    #Taiwan #KMT #china #CCP #Qing #Mongolia #Tibet #EastTurkestan #xinjiang #Manchuria #Korea #Japan

    federated.press/@donovan_smith

    taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch