Jo Smith Finley
jsmithfinley.bsky.social
Jo Smith Finley
@jsmithfinley.bsky.social
Reader in Chinese Studies, Newcastle University, UK. Sinologist/Social anthropologist/Political scientist. I study the Uyghur region (a.k.a Xinjiang, NW China).
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ps. @timeshighered.bsky.social raises the red flag-but only for the UK: "foreign government interference on UK campuses"
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...

But China silencing us by weaponizing their students, is a live threat against the whole world, all our universities, not just UK!
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffield-hallam-apologises-china-scholar-over-publication-ban"-But
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Please everyone, re-read all of Laura Murphy's reports on the current slavery in China in their Uyghur genocide.

How precious they are!

Sheffield Hallam U actually DELETED her page at Forced Labour Lab, at the Helena Kennedy Centre, SHU!

But some are still here: www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our...

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www.shu.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This is a huge scandal -- a warning to all the world's academia, about China's brazen intimidation and shameless weaponizing of their own students in order to silence the BEST RESEARCH in our free universities.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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China's Embassy in the UK openly admitting their students are now their WEAPONS: "over 200,000 Chinese students in the UK.. China the largest source of international students in the UK," adding "educational cooperation has become a driving force in bilateral ties".. yeah, and not just in the UK.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward. 2024. ‘Lessons On Genocide From Xinjiang And Gaza’. Dawn. February 23.
Lessons on Genocide From Xinjiang and Gaza
Comparing events in Xinjiang and Gaza not only illuminates the double standard over genocide, but reveals the hole at the heart of the supposedly rules-based international order.
dawnmena.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Rachel Harris. 2020. ‘Islamophobia, the Global War on Terror, and China’s policies in Xinjiang’. Society and Space. December 7.
Islamophobia, the Global War on Terror, and China’s policies in Xinjiang
What we need to understand is how and why these incidents were used to justify such massive, invasive and violent methods of control over the Muslim peoples of Xinjiang. After all, violent incidents i...
www.societyandspace.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Joanne Smith Finley. 2019. ‘The Wang Lixiong Prophecy: “Palestinization” in Xinjiang and the Consequences of Chinese State Securitization of Religion’. Central Asian Survey 38 (1): 81–101. doi:10.1080/02634937.2018.1534802
doi.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Daniel James Schuster. 2017. Resisting under Occupation: A Palestinian–Uyghur Comparison. Hamburg: Anchor Academic Publishing.
Science Publishing Hamburg - Resisting under Occupation. A Palestinian – Uyghur Comparison
This comparative study of the resistance behavior between the Palestinians and Chinese Uyghurs delineates the commonalities of the two case studies in ...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Sean R. Roberts 2018. ‘The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs’. Critical Asian Studies 50 (2): 232–58. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111.
The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs
This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from thi...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Nitasha Kaur. 2020. ‘China : Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir’. Made in China Journal 5 (2): 62–71. doi:10.22459/mic.05.02.2020.05.
China : Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir
Kashmir and Xinjiang share a border. Or, more precisely, the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir that is now divided between India, Pakistan, and China (and officially known as Jammu and Kashmir and L...
madeinchinajournal.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Darren Byler and Karissa Ketter. 2024. ‘On the Travel of State Crimes by Algorithm: Chinese Camera Systems in Israel’. Made in China Journal 9(1): 18–21. doi:10.22459/MIC.09.01.2024.02.
On the Travel of State Crimes by Algorithm: Chinese Camera Systems in Israel | Made in China Journal
In one of the opening scenes of Surveillance State, Josh Chin and Liza Lin (2022: 41) describe how then Xinjiang party secretary Chen Quanguo tested the response time of local police in front of a mar...
madeinchinajournal.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The intercepted data, including communication details, contacts, and movement details (location coordinates) was reportedly sent directly to a handler in #China, whom the spies referred to as the "big boss".
May 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The suspects, all #Chinese citizens, established a sophisticated operation self-funded by allegedly hacking into the bank accounts of regular Turkish citizens to drain savings for operational expenses. Their aim? To collect personal information of #Uyghurs & Turkish officials in contact with them.
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
May 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Costs could also be cut by pruning management salaries and structures. Since tuition-fee rises in 2012, the number of staff drawing six-figure pay-cheques has mushroomed. We urge Newcastle University Executive Board to abandon these unnecessary cuts to frontline staff and do the right moral thing.
May 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There are other options. Recently announced capital expenditure projects – including a £274m student accommodation block replete with luxuries like a cinema and gym, and plans for a new campus in India – should be reviewed or delayed.
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
To add insult to injury, on the day staff were threatened with redundancy they were also invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session. ‘Let your pen dance across the page,’ they were told, as ‘a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.’
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In an unpleasant twist, they will be forced to compete against each other in an academic equivalent of ‘The Hunger Games.’
May 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A win (for now) but it's unlikely this struggle for our university is over
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM