Jim Millward
@jimmillward.bsky.social
Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
This is really a sad contradiction for us who work on human rights issues in China: as governments commit to countering CCP influence within their borders (a welcome step), they are concurrently adopting measures that make life harder for those who fled the CCP’s persecution.
Todd Stein@toddstein.bsky.social · 8mo ago"Uyghurs who fled are losing protections as China pressures other countries to hand them over, and as America and Europe have grown more hostile towards refugees."
Here is what CBS’s Weiss censored for the Trump regime.
I direct Duke’s Asia Pacific Studies Center, so we’ve been working with Carolina Asia. Center on joint programs as much as we can this year to make up for budget shortfalls at both institutions. But this summary closure 🤬
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 8mo agoThis is truly awful news. The Carolina Asia Center, one of the affected centers, is a wonderful interdisciplinary space supporting some of the most important and interesting work being done on Asia and Asian America. But hey, still paying milions to a famous football coach to go 13th *in the ACC*
Guan Heng’s citizen journalist reporting helped confirm remote satelite documenting of the gulag in Xinjiang. It supported reports by Congress and UN. Guan Heng is a legal asylum seeker with a work card and a scheduled hearing. ICE is out of control.
Today, U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb ordered a halt to the president’s unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. This ruling provides an important check on presidential power and makes it clear that when we defend D.C., we defend democracy. https://cnn.it/483j8VW
Judge halts Trump’s deployment of national guard in Washington, DC | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump and the Defense Department illegally deployed the National Guard in Washington, DC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Remembering Sommers’ sanctimony over appointing a professor of Jewish history to Harvard task force on antisemitism. Sommers never stopped calling pro-Palestine protestors antisemites, and opened the door to Trump attacks on academe based on antisemitism pretext. www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/b...
Larry Summers blasts Harvard over antisemitism: ‘I have lost confidence’ | CNN Business
Famed economist Larry Summers slammed Harvard’s top leaders on Sunday over concerns about how the Ivy League school is fighting antisemitism.
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No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders. Do not follow illegal orders. GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article... Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation. Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt. But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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Perhaps the last statemebt from RFA, wiped out by ill-advised Trump cuts. US blinding itself to what is happening in Asia www.rfa.org/english/abou...
RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty
With the delay in receiving funding, RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty.
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
Kudos to my colleagues @jimmillward.bsky.social and Chandra Manning for organizing and leading this effort. 🗃️
NPR@npr.org · 11mo agoHistorians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
Very stupid idea to create bs new program when threatened. Everyone knows, you only create bs new programs when someone writes you a big enough check.
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last yr.As a conservative, my position is: Harvard should make NO changes under federal government threat. It should be willing to consider any and all changes only after that threat is lifted.
the story of this administration is going to be a question of which wins out: the enthusiastic capitulation of elite American society to fascism or supercharged thermostatic backlash
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:
LATimes.com front page right now
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · last yr.In spite of its owner, I must say the LA Times is meeting the moment with wall-to-wall coverage of ICE kidnappings and so many stories about how immigrants are the backbone of everything great about LA. Its staff has a much clearer view of the city than the New York Times does of NYC.
Trump's order to halt international student visas undermines one of the top US exports--in the top ten, generating billions of revenue annually, not just for universities. I'm not hearing much noise from politicians about this attack on the economy, though.
