Patricia M Thornton
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Associate Professor at @Politics_Oxford , @ox_chinacentre , @MertonCollege , and @BACS_China Council member; Proud member of @OxfordUCU
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BBC: Speaker of
#Taiwan
's parliament admits confusion over Macron's remarks: "Are 'liberté, égalité, fraternité' out of fashion?" Or can advanced democratic countries ignore the lives & deaths of people in other countries?" #台灣
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#CUHK
faculty member on the scene: "There was no riot, no attack, no disruption, no mass gathering in the campus of the Chinese University of
#HongKong
before the police came"
#HongKongProtests
#香港中文大學 #香港
A message on yesterday's events from my former CUHK colleague Prof. Seanon Wong.
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Odd Arne Westad in FP: Xi’s own biggest fear must be that, rather than presiding over China’s inevitable rise, he is chairing his country’s emerging decline... ending up as China’s Brezhnev, instead of being a twenty-first-century Stalin or Mao
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BBC: Sheffield
#HongKongProtest
clash: Pro-
#China
student arrested, suspended from his course for committing public order offence. "The intention was clearly to close down the free speech of
#HongKong
students & that can never be tolerated in a democracy."
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BREAKING: 立場新聞 reporting HKUST's Ching Kwan Lee resigned, after having been accused of directly participating in & supporting the
#HongKongProtests
, is being pressured to turn herself in #香港 兩名科大學者被指離職 李靜君：已約滿離任 成名： 仲喺科大
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SCMP: Chinese ship hits & sinks Vietnamese fishing boat in
#SouthChinaSea
,
#China
detains crew
#Vietnam
said the Chinese vessel hit the boat near the Paracel Islands before capturing its 8 crew members & 2 boats which came to its rescue via
@scmpnews
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Terrific Guardian piece from
@nivincent
:
#China
funnels its overseas aid money into political leaders’ home provinces
Schools, stadiums or airports help the presidents of countries that receive cash from Beijing tighten their grip on power
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So relieved to see it's finally out-- but the
@chinaquarterly
pulled some Christmas magic and managed to get me the gorgeous cover below to mark the
#CCPCentenary
! Thank you,
@chinaquarterly
!
Our supplementary special issue on the
#CCPCentenary
"The Party's New Long March" edited by
@PM_Thornton
is now online and fully Open Access
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The Economist:
#China
eyes Okinawa
When China wants to make a controversial claim, it does so first at a low-key conference, which gets cited in a govt document, then referred to by a senior official. “It’s a way to create a fait accompli by inches"
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Bloomberg: Xi Jinping Thought is becoming inescapable for bankers across
#China
— BlackRock employees have to attend lectures
But, as
@vshih2
warns: “Every hour workers spend doing something else is an hour they aren’t doing their jobs” via
@bpolitics
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Helping my youngest move out of his dorm room at St Hugh’s College
@UniofOxford
this morning, saw this in the lobby calling for a #白紙革命
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BBC: Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition to remove
#HongKong
actor Donnie Yen as an Oscars presenter bec. his latest remarks over the 2-19 HK protests "violate the spirit of freedom of speech". #香港
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RFA: Cai Wanhuan, a professor at Tsinghua who went to
#SitongBridge
to take photos in order to prove to his students that freedom of speech exists in
#China
is detained questioned by police 清華教授赴四通橋拍照證中國有「言論自由」 遭公安盤問
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Bitter Winter: When "Xistory" is so bad, it's good:
#China
's Xi promotes bizarre new 5-part series, "When Marx met Confucius" at the Nat'l Conference on Propaganda, Thought, & Cultural Work (which launched “XJP Thought on Culture").
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BBC: Hundreds of thousands of
#HongKong
citizens expected to move to the UK under a new visa scheme will be helped to access housing, schools and jobs, the communities secretary has said #香港
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Gordon C. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China published in 2001, in The Telegraph:
Now, Xi Jinping is really, really, REALLY bringing
#China
to the brink of collapse
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Anne Stevenson-Yang for
@forbes
:
#China
is facing what is arguably the worst crisis in governance since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Even the 1989
#Tiananmen
uprising did not affect as many people as the
#Covid
lockdowns.
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The all-male Politburo Standing Committee helicoptered in to
#China
's 13th National Congress of Women today to assure Chinese women that they still hold up "half the sky."
But only the back half.
Apparently it takes a Y chromosone to hold up the front half.
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The below was airdropped to an acquaintance in the
#Shanghai
Metro today-- the sender's name was "习近平的iPhone.“
Others reporting same/similar on social media.
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As they used to say in Soviet Russia, “The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable”
Every mention and image of Qin Gang is being deleted from China's foreign ministry webpage:
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My open access
@chinaquarterly
review of Joseph Esherick's terrific 2022 Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest
#China
now available online (tantalizing excerpt below)
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SkyNews reporting "a major leak containing a register w/the personal identifying details of 1.95 mil Communist Party members [in
#China
], mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 Communist Party branches, many of them inside companies”.
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CNN: Xu Zhiyong, a prominent civil rights advocate in
#China
who once called on Xi Jinping to resign bec. he is "just not smart enough" was put on trial behind closed doors in Shandong on Wed. on charges of subverting state power. ?
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FT's John Burn-Murdoch:
#China
’s GDP blackout isn’t fooling anyone
There is diminishing faith in the few economic indicators that, after years of obfuscation, still see the light of day
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The Guardian's
@nivincent
: ‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out
An open letter (removed from Chinese social media) written by 5 historians denounced
#Russia
's invasion of
#Ukraine
& called on Beijing to make
#China
's stance clearer.
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Cindy Yu for FP: FP: Young Chinese Are Angry, Jobless, and Wondering Why They Went to University
#China
's record youth unemployment is causing a rethink of education’s value.
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Inside HigherEd: Scholars raise concerns about using
#Zoom
to teach about
#China
after it acceded to Chinese govt demands to shut down activists' accounts. Zoom says it will develop technology to block users by geography, which violates
#academicfreedom
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@niubi
Opinion on whether
#LiWenliang
has passed away (at 21:30 today) still divided on Weibo, but this cartoon image of his body wearing striped pyjamas, being carried aloft by an angel whose wings are being cut, has also been circulating a good deal.
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FT: Collapsed Blackstone deal shows that ‘everything is political’ in
#China
Failed property bet has ‘chilling effect’ as overseas investors try to guess Beijing’s next target and "will likely look at China with a greater sense of caution"
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And I just saw another set of 4 in sympathy with the Beijing
#sitongqiao
banner protest on Turl Street in
#Oxford
, near the intersection with Broad Street. Seems someone here is hoping to to get their message out there
#FreePeople
#FreeLonelyWarrior
#我看到了
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My
@chinaquarterly
review of Olivia Cheung's terrific Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (2023)
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New Thread: 人民日报: CCP has just released the long-awaited newly revised "Regulations of the Communist Party of
#China
on the Work of Grassroots Organizations in Regular Colleges and Universities" 中国共产党普通高等学校基层组织工作条例
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Wired: Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged
#Taiwan
's Semiconductor Industry
A campaign called Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, software development kits, chip designs, and more
#台灣
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On rumours that
#DongJingwei
has defected from
#China
, for what it's worth, Vice Chairman & CEO at Republicans Overseas
@SolomonYue
has weighed in publicly, and is betting his RNC seat (which he's held since 2000) that the rumours are in fact true #懂经纬
I bet my Republican Nat'l Committeeman position on DIA has Dong Jingwei (董经纬) in its protective custody. If I lose the bet, I resign my RNC position. If .
@huijianonline
loses it, I want $10,000.💰goes to the reporter who broke the story .
@jenvanlaar
1st Amendment defense fund.
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OK, what I stumbled into on Turl St in
#Oxford
today is clearly part of a far-flung orchestrated effort in sympathy with the
#Sitongqiao
banner protest among overseas students from
#China
&
#HongKong
. These are everywhere. Impressive #香港
#FreePeople
#FreeLonelyWarrior
#我看到了
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The Economist: Underground Chinese networks equipped w/new technologies that can enable dirty money to be washed clean in minutes. For transnational criminal gangs across the world, these shadowy “banks” in
#China
are becoming the financiers of choice.
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AP via The Independent:
#Taiwan
,
#Somaliland
ties growing despite diplomatic isolation
Taiwan and Somaliland are expanding economic and political ties despite being two of the world's most diplomatically isolated governments
#台灣
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Foreign Affairs: "
#China
’s govt is concealing a serious economic slowdown & sliding back into brittle totalitarianism. The country is suffering severe resource scarcity & faces the worst peacetime demographic collapse in history." via
@ForeignAffairs
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Chris Patten: "
#HongKong
is trapped bec. it reflects so many of the things which the CCP regards as being an existential danger — like
#freespeech
. We have to have a relationship w/
#China
. But we shouldn’t lose our self-respect in the way we deal w/China"
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Artist
@badiucao
receives death threats for his subversive political artworks aimed at Chinese government
His identity was a secret, but now “Chinese Banksy” has opened up about how his political artwork has seen him receive daily death threats.
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Taiwan News:
#Taiwan
develops 10-minute coronavirus test kit
Taiwanese company's 10-minute coronavirus antibody test kit ready for mass production #台灣
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WSJ: Britain Falls Out of Love With
#China
Enthusiasm for post-
#Brexit
trade wanes as the
#coronaviral
toll grows. via
@WSJ
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Bloomberg: Taiwanese Opposition to Political Union With
#China
Surges following
#HongKongProtests
. 90% of
#Taiwan
's public opposes a
#HongKong
-style "one country two systems" reunification a surge of 13.9% since January #台灣 #香港
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Terrific must-read China Information article by Christopher Mittelstaedt on FirstView today: The grid management system in contemporary
#China
: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance & service provision
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Foreign Affairs: When Xi took credit for
#China
’s rise to middle-income status, the transition should come with a policy pivot promoting consumption-led growth. Yet the opposite has happened. via
@ForeignAffairs
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Brahma Chellaney for Nikkei Asia:
#China
continues its territorial advances in Asia
Strategy relies on a steady progression of actions to outmaneuver rival states
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Fantastic Sebastian Veg article in Dissent:
#China
’s social & intellectual spheres remain less monolithic than the tightly controlled public transcripts would suggest, and their possibilities deserve our continued attention.
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NPR: As Scrutiny Of China Grows, Some US Schools Drop Language Programs. New US military spending bill says universities with Confucius Institutes cannot also receive money from the Defense Department program that pays for Chinese language training.
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Telegraph: UCL bans lecturer from
#China
course to protect its ‘commercial interests’
Free Speech Union asserts "an undue deference to the sensitivity of some Chinese students that is utterly incompatible with
#academicfreedom
."
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WTVB:
#Somaliland
Foreign Minister Essa Kayd on a trip to
#Taiwan
said
#China
cannot dictate to his country. “We were born free & we will stay free. We will run our business the way we want. China cannot dictate, no other country can dictate.” #台灣
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BBC:
#Canada
declares
#China
's Zhao Wei persona non grata after the diplomat targeted Canadian lawmaker Michael Chong & his relatives in
#HongKong
for accusing China of
#humanrights
abuses #香港
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Ho Feng Shan: The 'Chinese Schindler' who saved thousands of Jews while serving as the consul general in Vienna for the Nationalist Chinese govt from 1938 to 1940 by issuing visas to Shanghai
@CNNI
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BBC: On
#China
's internet today thousands rushed to the social media page of hero doctor & whistleblower
#LiWenliang
to tell him that zero-
#COVID
was being abandoned. As if stopping by the graveside of a family elder, they poured their hearts out to him.
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If true, this is an outrageous attack on
#academicfreedom
and
#freespeech
in
#HongKong
&
#Taiwan
against a world-renowned sociologist, a deeply valued colleague in
@AASAsianStudies
, drawing on an unsubstantiated statement taken entirely out of context at a conference #台灣 #香港
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And he should know, because, according to , Gordon C. Chang has been predicting
#China
's collapse since the end of Qianlong's reign.
Just sayin'...😉
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自由亚洲电台: Key State Council institutions are placed being placed under central Party control.
#China
is about to enter an era of strong Party & weak government. 国务院重要机构划归中共高层 中国即将进入强党弱政时代
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1. Thread, Remembering 1988 River Elegy (河殇).
#China
's state media has been running articles on rivers, reservoirs & massive irrigation projects: "Why does water weigh so heavily on the mind of General Secretary Xi Jinping?" 水，为何在总书记心中分量这么重
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The China Quarterly
@chinaquarterly
has adopted a triple-anonymous review process to ensure an even fairer & more transparent process: "no other
#China
-studies journal has such a policy & few journals outside of philosophy have implemented it."
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SCMP: In another example of the rapid erosion of
#academicfreedom
in
#HongKong
after the imposition of
#China
's new nat'l security law, Lingnan University terminates 2 professors who previously criticised govt #香港 via
@scmpnews
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Atlantic's
@MichaelSchuman
: "If anything, zero
#Covid
bought time to gird the nation for the inevitable epidemic. Xi squandered it...
#China
’s autocracy simply wasted 3 years’ worth of national resources to end up in the same place as the rest of the world"
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#HKUST
has issued a statement saying that it supports
#academicfreedom
but that all of its employees must strictly abide by
#HongKong
law; and that disciplinary charges have not been filed against her. #香港
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Forbes: What
#China
Is Really Up To In Africa. Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap has been the obsession of multiple waves of colonists, and China is the next in line to reach into the heart of the continent with railroads, highways, and airports.
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My review of 4 new books on the history of
#China
's Communist Party-- part of the
@chinaquarterly
's forthcoming
#CCPCentenary
special issue -- now available on FirstView!
"Through the Mirror of CCP History: Four Perspectives"
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The New Yorker's Jiayang Fan:
#China
’s Arrest of a Free-Speech Icon Backfires in
#HongKong
“Contrary to what they might think, I don’t hate the Party,”
@JimmyLaiApple
said, with a shrug. “I just don’t fear them.”
@hkappledaily
#香港
via
@NewYorker
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Huang Yasheng reviews Jin Keyu's "mistakenly celebratory" The New
#China
Playbook for FP:
Chinese Exceptionalism Just Won’t Die
The idea of a special Chinese model rings increasingly hollow.
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人民日报：CCP issued two important documents yesterday, one on improving
#China
's grassroots governance and the other on calling for the strengthening of ideological and political work in the new era.
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