David Brophy
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Historian of China and Inner Asia at @Sydney_Uni . Vice-President (Academic) of the #USyd @NTEUNSW . Author of Uyghur Nation (2016), China Panic (2021).
Sydney, New South Wales
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Put a flag up outside my office window this morning. I hope - genuinely - that my institution won't mind a small gesture of support for people currently getting carpet bombed. Do the same if you can.
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Uyghurs are sending out short, silent messages on Tiktok to tell the world about family members gone missing. They’re eery and extremely sad. A few here below, many more now said to be circulating.
在我们家乡的维吾尔人冒着生命危，险通过无标题的都音视频方式为在集中营里的亲戚作证
不知道怎么回事，好象他们也知道了作证能救他们，几天里面上百个视频上传，让人心痛
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Just dropped a banner off Parramatta Rd footbridge. Getting lots of honks as people head home.
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
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3 more History units getting the chop at
#USyd
- we've now lost 7 (35%) for Semester 2. At a time like this, do we really want to be taking these out of the curriculum?
America in World Affairs: A History - HSTY2611
American Slavery - HSTY2659
Fascism and Antifascism - HSTY2626
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Sit-in getting going at the entrance to Hutchison Ports. Amazing atmosphere here tonight. Come join us!
#CeasefireNow
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@abcnews
let this claim about Jabaliya go to air without the slightest probing, and amplified it on its Twitter feed just hours before Israel hit the same refugee camp again. What is there left to say.
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We supported the blowing up of your home and we’re now concerned you may not wish to live there anymore.
Palestinians were refused Australian visitor visas due to concerns they would not ‘stay temporarily’
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From a few days ago - guy cracks a whip and abuses Chinese lining up outside the Sydney consulate. Example of the toxic way Covid conspiracy theories are mixing with more mainstream talking points about Chinese domination. Way things are going, we're going to see more of this.
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It's bad enough to treat this textbook as something criminal, but the description of it in the video appears to be false as well. It claims that the authors refer to the enemies as Han Chinese, but the video itself shows that they call them Manchus.
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Imagine China just assassinated a Uyghur activist in the diaspora and someone wrote a piece saying that “Canberra must clearly convey to Beijing that it takes China’s concerns about militancy within the East Turkistan movement seriously.”
A measured piece by
@DrIanHall
- still lots to play out with this case.
'Canberra must clearly convey to New Delhi that while it must uphold freedom of speech and association within Australia, it takes India’s concerns about militancy within the Khalistani movement seriously.'
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The left has to stop listening to idiotic advice like this. Drawing links between situations of oppression around the world is precisely what we need right now. Well done to these Uyghurs for showing up for Palestine, and shame on anyone who wants to drive them away.
Most disappointing about the
#SaveSheikhJarrah
protest in NYC was seeing the East Turkistan flag.
Xinjiang is not Palestine. The Palestine Solidarity movement took the imperialist position on Syria and should not do the same with China. These errors only help the US and Israel.
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I’m sure if China put some resources into it they could get some real images of what Australia did in Afghanistan. Would everyone be happy then?
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Are people amplifying Adrian Zenz at a time like this aware of his views? He sees the existence of Israel as a step towards the rapture, at which time (he writes) "God's refining process will wipe out all unbelieving Jews." Those are literally his words:
The silence of most Muslim-majority nations regarding the plight of Uyghur Muslims in China has been shameful. Imagine if the Israeli government had detained one million Palestinian Muslims to force them to abandon their religion, culture, and language.
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And apparently 1 in 3 Australians now support the idea of attacking the Solomon Islands if China establishes a military presence there.
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Little girl is worried about getting scolded or hit simply for saying someone's name in Uyghur. Later in the convo it's confirmed that the kids are banned from speaking Uyghur in their kindergarten.
汉族老师要求这位维吾尔小女孩说维吾尔语。 可是维吾尔小女孩很为难的回答说，如果讲维吾尔语会挨骂。。。
很显然，所有的维吾尔孩子目前都生活在一个与大人一样的恐惧中。你能想象你的孩子假如生长在这种环境中你的感受会如何么？ 种族灭绝发生时保持的沉默会让人权，民主和自由被践踏为代价的
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It’s Sydney’s turn today. Spread the word and get to Hyde Park at 2pm.
Thank you London! Half a million people on the streets today for Palestine demanding a
#CeaseFireNOW
🇵🇸
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Cancelled this morning's class. I can't teach after waking up to this.
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China's latest "weapon" is a K-12 school. If this is really such a propaganda coup, maybe we need to ask why, after a century of colonial and neo-colonial domination of PNG, Australia has left something so basic as a decent school for someone else to build?
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You had ample chance to help Afghans when you were PM. Instead you slammed the door to asylum seekers and funded an advertising campaign in Dari and Pashto telling them they'd never settle in Australia.
The fall of Oruzgan to the Taliban, and the reported threat to Kabul, is an unmitigated disaster for the good people of Afghanistan… It is now urgent that the US Administration reverse the course of its final military withdrawal.
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Yesterday I had 20+ students in a room for a tutorial. But today, Michael Spence call the riot squad onto campus to shut down a rally against fee hikes, on the grounds that it exceeded the 20 person limit. "Let's pick 'em off one by one" was what I heard one of the cops say.
Police have issued move-on orders at the No Fee Hikes No Uni Cuts protest at Fisher library. There is heavy police presence all over Eastern Avenue. One protester has already been issued a fine.
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Morrison on the report into Australia’s war crimes: “disturbing and distressing.”
On a meme criticising Australia’s war crimes: “truly repugnant, utterly outrageous, cannot be justified on any basis.”
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I have a responsibility to the people I teach at
#Usyd
. If you’re going to run a story on the “infiltration” of my university and include a long segment on international students, you’re inviting people to think of those students as “infiltrators.” That’s extremely dangerous.
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Probably better say this again: as far as I can tell, the Confucius Institute at USyd has no interest in influencing the way staff & students teach or discuss China. I teach the most controversial topics in Chinese history, and they've never even got in touch with me.
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Sickening stunt by an FM who gave carte blanche to Zomi’s killers from day one: “Australia stands with Israel and always will.”
This afternoon I joined representatives from Australian NGOs to lay flowers for Zomi Frankcom at the monument to commemorate the sacrifices of Australia’s humanitarian workers.
Zomi will not be forgotten.
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Not a single mention of war crimes in this 300+ page balance sheet on Afghanistan. The word doesn’t even occur.
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The NSW ALP government and police is threatening to jail people for up to 2 years for peacefully sitting in to stop an ongoing massacre. Drop the charges now.
PJMS condemns the arrests and shocking police violence last night. In charging protesters under the new antiprotest laws, the ALP, aided by a complicit media, is colluding with genocide and accelerating the dangerous repressive turn in politics. We will not be intimidated.
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The nationalism on display today has been unbelievable. Stop, for a second, and ask yourself how you would like China to react when the West calls it out for its human rights abuses. Then react in that way to Zhao Lijian.
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Flag is still up.
If you’re non-Palestinian, hang the Palestinian flag from your window. Get an anti-Zionist bumper sticker. Put 🇵🇸 in your bio. Join a Palestinian organization. Gift someone a book on Palestine. Visible solidarity, albeit often symbolic, is needed in a climate so hostile to us.
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Book is off to the printers tomorrow. Got in some last minute references to the BRI cancellation, but it's all out of my hands now. Very grateful for the blurbs from Linda Jaivin, Allan Gyngell, and Wanning Sun.
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SMH keeping the drums beating. Whatever you think of the timing of this war talk, there are people in this country who want this war, and a media happy to amplify their message. The response should not be to shush them, but to state very clearly that we want no part in this.
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Pretty good line from Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East in the same way that America is the oldest democracy in the world."
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Utter disgrace that some (who?) in the union movement have brought this criminal to Australia.
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Raids on journos are worrying anywhere, but I find this situation particularly troubling. Oz agencies raid Chinese journalists but keep it secret, China then retaliates, denunciations of China ensue, all while we still lack basic information about the actual dynamics.
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Guy claiming to support Uyghurs now proudly declares he will crush their hopes of finding refuge in the US should they sympathise with the Palestinians.
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Crowd building up at Port Botany to disrupt Zim shipping. Going to be here a while so come down
#CeasefireNow
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Happy for Ben Fordham, or anyone else, to publicise the fact that I oppose Israeli brutality against the Palestinians. You should too!
We will not be intimidated by rightwing media commentators or police threats
With ½ a million mobilised by Israel, white phosphorous & increasing bombings, it's crucial we speak out against escalating brutalities
It's more important than ever to stand in solidarity
@Dave_Brophy
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Completely bogus story with serious potential to inflame nationalist hostilities now getting picked up by Indian media. Narrative was launched by
@RFERL
’s Tajik service then publicised in English by
@JamestownTweets
. Would be great if these orgs could review their reporting.
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There's clearly way more than 20 people here. If this is OK with the NSW police, why not BLM?
this anti-CCP protest apparently happened in Sydney yesterday outside the Chinese consulate
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So we’re actually going to run a campaign against Chinese Australians who are importing medical supplies to Australia.
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Nope, Australia’s no lapdog of the US. We’re going to keep on having our racism thank you very much.
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Amazing article. We're suppposed to get angry because a Chinese diplomat says what lawyers, psychiatrists, and many other Austalians have been saying for a long time - that Australia has been putting refugees in concentration camps.
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This is Payman telling her colleagues, politely, to get out of her face to stop harassing her. Trying to turn this into a story is just Islamophobia.
New from me: Payman expected to quit the ALP after caucus colleagues reveal she told them she was being guided by god on her Palestine floor crossing decision, shocking her colleagues
#auspol
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We’re heading towards dark places if we’re going to start talking about China’s criticism of Australian war crimes as appealing to conspiracy theorists.
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The PM has just been travelling the world telling people what a dangerous country China is and drumming up support to contain it militarily. It’s embarrassing the way we continue to act as the aggrieved, innocent party here.
Interesting by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
After Beijing rebuffed Trade Min Don Farrell's formal request to meet his counterpart in Geneva, seems she will try Defence minister Richard Marles "dinner diplomacy" approach this week in Bali.
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An upsurge of anti-Chinese racism was as predictable as night following day once Australia set itself on a course to whip up paranoia and try to catalyse an effort to uphold US primacy in Asia. Any anti-racism strategy that fails to come to terms with that fact won't work.
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Could be wrong, but is this the first time Australia has declared "shared values" with the single-party state of Vietnam?
Today,
@FMPhamBinhMinh
& I signed the third PLAN OF ACTION to deepen cooperation under our Strategic Partnership. We reiterated our shared values and commitment to combat regional challenges together. Australia values Vietnam’s leadership during its
#ASEAN
chairmanship. 🇦🇺🇻🇳
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Afaict no Aussie media picked this up, no politician said anything about it, and according to the video there was no police response. Meanwhile, an Australian politician's article that criticised anti-Chinese racism has been beat up into a major scandal.
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In which I learn that my university has been using AI tools to monitor this account. “It was a Dataminr custom pulse that alerted University officials to a tweet by David Brophy regarding an outdoor teach-in.”
BREAKING: GIPA documents shed light on surveillance measures by the University and NSW Police. | Vivienne Guo, Shania O’Brien & Marlow Hurst
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So CGTN seems to have fabricated this claim to depict the editors as inserting contemporary ethnic conflicts into a textbook. The editors' only actual "crime" was choosing to include this particular story - a well known one in Uyghur literature - in the textbook.
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Whoops
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Indian Maoists come out against China's Islamophobic repression in Xinjiang, recognizing the commonalities with Modi's crackdown on Kashmir, minorities, and dissent.
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Morrison did not "mess up" relations with China. It was a deliberate strategy to put Australia on the frontlines ("canary in the coalmine"), show Australia's relevance to US interests, and trial methods to undermine the PRC's global standing that could be exported elsewhere.
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“if the international community responds robustly to the Uighur genocide, this may be the moment when China's global ascendency is stopped in its tracks.”
This is not a helpful framing of the issue.
Opinion: Why the Uighur genocide in China matters, writes Dr Azeem Ibrahim
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Riot police were literally just roaming the Quad lawns grabbing people, well after things had dispersed. Never seen anything like it.
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Let's say you sell stuff to someone, and at the same time, you tell people that you're using that revenue to buy weapons to fight that person with. And let's say that person, after hearing this, decides that they'd prefer not to do business with you. Is that person coercing you?
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OK, this is getting a bit out of hand. Vague and arbitrarily enforced codes of conduct are a threat to intellectual freedom for students & staff alike.
@DrewPavlou
's said and done things I disagree with, but nothing I've seen warrants penalties like this. UQ should drop it.
Update: Without informing us, the UQ Disciplinary Board has accepted a submission from a solicitor acting for UQ, Tom Fletcher (a partner at MinterEllison). His submission on behalf of UQ strongly advocates for an outcome of expulsion or suspension for 5 years.
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No one at the uni complained or said a word to me about having this up for weeks, but it now falls within the scope of
@mscott
’s “Campus Access Policy”. I wonder, is this really about access to campus, or something else?
Put a flag up outside my office window this morning. I hope - genuinely - that my institution won't mind a small gesture of support for people currently getting carpet bombed. Do the same if you can.
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For any "Marxists" out there who think everything's hunky-dory in Xinjiang, here are a few snippets from a 2020 article by 2 professors of Marxism at Xinjiang Normal University. 张轩&杜蓉, 新疆“去极端化”工作中亟待厘清的认识问题, 科学与无神论 3 (2020).
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60 professors and chairs of departments in
#USyd
's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have sent around a public letter today calling on university management to abandon their plan to abolish departments.
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Campus looking dead at 6:30 and I expect it to stay that way.
#USyd
management can’t manage without the goodwill of staff, and today and tomorrow we’re withdrawing that for the sake of quality jobs and education.
#Usydstrike
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The ABC’s South Asia correspondent has been turfed out of India in the midst of the country’s elections
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If anti-Chinese racism was “triggered” by COVID-19, I think I may have found some evidence for the virus’s early presence in Australia.
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The new “4 demands” narrative is a pretty good indicator that no one in Australian media/politics is really interested in cooling tensions with China.
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I decided to write a book on some simple, non-controversial Australia-China topics - foreign policy, PRC interference, racism, HK, Xinjiang, etc. etc. Hope to have it out in August or thereabouts.
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Union contingents at the start of today’s big May Day and anti-
#AUKUS
march in Port Kembla.
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Hope this update on Wang Liqiang gets some follow-up from the Australian media, with questions put to those who hyped the story. The 60 Minutes promo when the story first broke was a particular lowlight.
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Is taking sides in a territorial dispute we’re not party to, and dispatching military force to patrol the disputed region, one of the “international norms” we’d like China to adapt its behaviour to?
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Just as Sikhs were victims of Islamophobic attacks after 9/11, the China scare will end up impacting anyone of Asian appearance. No amount of care with language - “I’m not anti-Chinese, just anti-CCP” etc. etc. - will stave off this racism.
'Go back to your country, you're a Chinese spy': ACT politicians face racism on the campaign trail
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This is going to become an increasing issue as the Chinese passports that these people carry expire. Preventing refoulement and offering them refugee protection is low-hanging fruit for countries that want to do something to help the Uyghurs.
Comment: China is refusing to renew passports for its Uighur Muslim citizens abroad, to force them to return into captivity. But Uighur exiles are refugees and host countries should shield them from refoulement, explains
@cjwerleman
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The religion shelves in the Uyghur section of one of Ürümchi's main bookshops. Books must be either extremely popular, or extremely banned.
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International Women's Day rally at a girl's school in Ghulja 伊宁, Xinjiang. I think 1918. Solidarity to the women now locked up in re-education camps there, and with those fighting for justice & equality everywhere else.
#IWD2019
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Very proud of my
@NTEUnion
branch for taking a meaningful stand against a horrifying injustice today - exactly what unions exist to do.
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You can probably imagine how Australian social media reacted when Chinese Australians expressed solidarity with BLM in Perth by donating masks.
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An Open Letter from FASS Casuals to the Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Arts
“As casualised staff members from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, we ask that you immediately reverse your decision to cut up to thirty percent of units of study in FASS.”
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Love the way these people can just blow up a country, cause a million or so deaths, then just call it a mistake and move on.
Thread. Fascinating conversation here with former
@dfat
Secretary Peter Varghese and
@mfullilove
. Varghese was also John Howard's international affairs adviser in 2003. He says in retrospect the Iraq War was a mistake, with "highly negative" consequences
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“Albanese and Wong should make clear to their Chinese counterparts that Australia’s values include protecting human rights”. How are they going to do that with a straight face?
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That’s great news. When’s the report on the decision to illegally invade Iraq being released? What’s the timeline for prosecutions?
@zlj517
Australia has investigated, owned up to and will prosecute its war criminals. China's crimes against humanity (Uighurs etc) are state sanctioned, covered up, and more widespread. That's the key difference.
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Radio National just interviewed Penny Wong and didn’t put the question of a ceasefire to her. The word wasn’t even mentioned. Stopping killing Palestinians just isn’t an option worth considering.
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One more step down a dangerous road that we should be turning back from. No hot take other than that, but here's something I prepared earlier.
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The jet-skis came out for Palestine!
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Out in Rooty Hill this morning to support
@GeneralMills
workers who’ve been on strike for almost three weeks to defend their pay & conditions.
#passonoldelpaso
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Hah. Kang Youwei’s great-granddaughter plays badminton for Australia.
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Alright, book draft finished. If everything in Australia-China relations could just stay where they are while we edit it, that’d be great thanks.
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In Remembrance of the Saints, my study & translation of the Tazkira-i Azizan, is now available. Written in Kashgar in the 1780s, it's a hagiographic / historical narrative of the rise and fall of Sufi rule in the Tarim Basin, and the arrival of the Qing.
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Vic Park picket line getting set up on the 8th day of the
#usydstrike
. Excellent work from the Classics contingent on their banner.
@NTEUNSW
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Huge USyd
@NTEUnion
branch meeting - 250 on zoom, 80 or so in the room - just voted overwhelmingly to call for the complete severing of institutional ties with Israeli universities and the global arms industry.
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Rally for
#Palestine
still growing in Hyde Park. More union flags than last time -
@MaritimeUnionAU
,
@NTEUnion
,
@raffwu
,
@ASUnion
,
@CFMEU
. Teachers & nurses contingents too.
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Journos who want Australians to steel themselves for the violence of war with China also want us to be deeply concerned about a few choice phrases from an ex-PM.
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Apparently the freedom warriors at
@ASPI_org
are working with Twitter to shut down accounts that convey "narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China."
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I support the pro-Hong Kong rallies. But if you're not aware of this kind of stuff - and I think the Australian media is mostly incapable of picking it up - you're not getting the full picture of the dynamics at these events.
Hong Kong protestor holding sign with Chinese saying “Hong Konger does not equal Zhina”. Vastly different from English translation.
Zhina was used by the Japanese army in World War 2 as a slur against Chinese. Events such as Rape of Nanking and Unit 731 happened in this time.
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A longish read from me on some questions surrounding if, and how, we should talk about Islam and Islamophobia in the context of
#Xinjiang
. Thanks to the
@MIC_Journal
people for running it.
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Picked up a volume of essays on post-COVID Australia from ALP, progressive sort of folks, edited by
@Tanya_plibersek
. Reading
@annabelcrabb
’s contribution, what do I find but a Wuhan bat joke. Depressing to think how mainstream this stuff is.
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Human rights groups of all people should not be indulging these ridiculous talking points about a “fake image” and “disinformation.” Can’t you see how that discourse is muddying the waters on serious human rights abuses?
While Zhao Lijian's tweet with a fake image caught Australia's attention, more often than not, the CCP's disinformation campaign is in Chinese.
@hrw
's
@Yaqiu
writes for
@LowyInstitute
how China’s online meddling goes beyond the Great Firewall:
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USyd's new "Campus Access Policy" - adopted without any notice or consultation - is an astonishing attack on political freedom at the university. We're now required to seek approval 72hrs in advance to put up a poster, set up a stall, or use a megaphone?!
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