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This #Passover, some of us will remember enslaved #Uyghurs by placing #cotton balls on our #seder plates. Learn more at
https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/cotton-balls-on-the-seder-plate/
"We were slaves in Egypt
We will not turn away from those who are slaves today
We were redeemed from slavery
We will do our part to help the Uyghurs live in freedom
(Jewish World Watch Uyghur Freedom Seder)"
"A coalition of governments has published a list of legitimate-looking Android apps that were actually spyware and were used to target civil society that may oppose China’s state interests.
On Tuesday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, which is part of intelligence agency GCHQ, along with government agencies from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States, published separate advisories on two families of spyware, known as BadBazaar and Moonshine.
These two spywares hid inside legitimate-looking Android apps, acting essentially as “Trojan” malware, with surveillance capabilities such as the ability to access the phone’s cameras, microphone, chats, photos, and location data, the NCSC wrote in a press release on Wednesday.
BadBazaar and Moonshine, which have been previously analyzed by cybersecurity firms like Lookout, Trend Micro, and Volexity, as well as the digital rights nonprofit Citizen Lab, were used to target Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Taiwanese communities, as well as civil society groups, according to the NCSC.
Uyghurs are a Muslim-minority group largely in China that has for years faced detention, surveillance, and discrimination from the Chinese government, and thus has frequently been the target of hacking campaigns."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/governments-identify-dozens-of-android-apps-bundled-with-spyware/
Governments identify dozens of #Android #apps bundled with #spyware
#BadBazaar and #Moonshine, which have been previously analyzed by cybersecurity firms and digital rights nonprofit #CitizenLab, were used to target #Uyghurs, #Tibetans, and #Taiwanese communities. These two spywares hid inside legitimate-looking apps, acting essentially as “trojan” #malware, with #surveillance capabilities such as access the phone’s cameras, microphone, chats, photos, and location data.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/governments-identify-dozens-of-android-apps-bundled-with-spyware/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/5923/ Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware #Android #Apple #China #gchq #Google #Mobile #NCSC #Spyware #Technology #Tibet #UK #UnitedKingdom #Uyghurs
Western intelligence agencies are warning of an increasing threat from Beijing's security services using malicious mobile phone applications to surveil activists and others opposed by the Chinese government. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/09/world/politics/spyware-taiwan-tibetan-rights/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #taiwan #china #tibet #hacking #espionage #uyghurs #xinjiang #hongkong #falungong #uk #us #canada #newzealand #australia #germany
去年我在播客裡訪談菊爾・伊力哈木（Jewher Ilham），她提到伊力哈木・土赫提（Ilham Tohti）的故郷：阿圖什（Atush），當時她是這麼說的：
「阿圖什並不大，但是很有名。在維吾爾地區，阿圖什人也非常有名。維吾爾人在國外，無論是美國還是歐洲，從阿圖什出生的人佔大多數。我們維吾爾人有一個諺語，說阿圖什人是維吾爾人裡面相當於猶太人的一個存在，愛讀書，愛經商，愛打拼。」 （ https://diyin.org/podcast/2024/12/ilham-tohti-1/ ）
這個地名對我來說非常陌生，沒有任何概念。看王柯在《「東突厥斯坦獨立運動」的起源》裡提到阿圖什，我才知道這個地方如此重要。
他說「近代維吾爾文化啟蒙運動」最早開始於天山南部維吾爾的社會文化和經濟中心喀什噶爾（Kashgar）地區，阿圖什就位於此。1883年，在阿圖什縣的依克沙克地方，著名資本家 Musabayow 兄弟倡議開辦了維吾爾社會第一座新式學校。Musabayow 兄弟還送維吾爾青年到俄羅斯喀山（Kazan）地區留學，這些人學成以後就回到依克沙克的學校，根據當時喀山和土耳其伊斯坦堡學校的課程設置教學內容。到1892年，由 Musabayow 兄弟派往俄羅斯和土耳其的留學生已超50人，Musabayow 家族負擔全部費用。喀山這個地方好像默默無聞，但據日本學者山內昌之說：「喀山在1905年革命後成為俄國穆斯林的政治、文化中心，在伊斯蘭世界中扮演着並不亞於伊斯坦堡、開羅、貝魯特的角色」。
他還提到，Musabayow 兄弟在依克沙克設立新式學校之後，還從土耳其聘請學者前來任教，Ahemet Kamal 即是其中之一。Ahemet 1907年（一說1913年）在依克沙克辦起了維吾爾社會第一所師範學校。
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
(5/5)
... arguing that the deportees will almost certainly face persecution, arbitrary detention, or worse under the Chinese government.
"The deportations come at a time when #Beijing has been actively seeking to deepen its ties with #Bangkok, particularly over the vast cyberscam industry that has infected most of Thailand's neighbors."
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Do read the excellent article for free:
https://www.dw.com/en/thailands-uyghur-deportations-balancing-china-and-the-west/a-72028596
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
(4/n)
... #PaetongtarnShinawatra — economic growth. "Right now, that is more likely with China than that of the #UnitedStates,"..."
"... a #Thai analyst and columnist, told DW. "#Thailand is playing its usual balancing act and, in this case, it is simply prioritizing immediate interests."
The United States and several human rights organizations had spent months warning against such a move,...
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
(3/n)
... think tank, this case marked an 
"inflection point" in #Thailand's geostrategic balancing."
"Thailand now is an open pawn in the US-China conflict," he told DW. "The big geostrategic danger is that the #Thai elite facing #US sanctions now move ever closer into China's orbit and compromise Thailand's once-famous balancing act."
"Instead, it is thinking about the one thing that matters most to #Thai Prime Minister...
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
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... global audience sees on a daily basis that decades old military (#NATO) and economic allies (#Canada/ #Mecico) are left hanging in the cold from one day to another. The arcane and insane #Mercantilist trade policies with aggressive, crippling #tariffs will lead to less trade with the #US.
"For #ThitinanPongsudhirak, a senior fellow at the #InstituteOfSecurityAndInternationalStudies, a...
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
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*"#Thai authorities deported a group of 40 #Uyghur men to #China last month"..."the hell those 40 #Uyghurs will face back in #Xinjiang"*
The last time #Bangkok did this was in 2015.
It is possible to see this as a precursor to the #US' waning geopolitical influence, as the disastrous #Trumpean #Foreign, #Economic, and #Security policies of the #AmericaFirst. The...
https://www.dw.com/en/thailands-uyghur-deportations-balancing-china-and-the-west/a-72028596
https://www.alojapan.com/1225461/china-eases-travel-curbs-on-uyghurs-but-maintains-severe-controls/ China eases travel curbs on Uyghurs but maintains ‘severe’ controls #China #discrimination #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #JapanTrips #trips #Uyghurs #xinjiang Beijing – China has eased travel curbs on Uyghurs but maintains “severe restrictions” on those seeking to go abroad or visit family in Xinjiang, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said Monday. Beijing stands accused of detaining more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims…
Annoyed by protests abroad against your #regime? Just make your embassies cover enough space that protesters can't even find a spot to stand on.
Export your #repression as a "service", and let your expats know you're always with them, one way or the other…
Chinese fascism hates religion. Islamophobic people will applaud the uyghur concentration camps, but they don’t realize that buddhism and THEIR beloved leaders would get suppressed too, if they were in China. Like the Dalai Lama.
Some people are just so dumb and blinded by their hate that they don’t examine their thought processes. To the point where they start saying things that go against their own religion.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions against officials from Thailand, a U.S. ally, for their role in deporting at least 40 Uyghurs to China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/15/asia-pacific/politics/us-thailand-sanctions-uyghur-deportation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #us #china #thailand #usthailandrelations #uyghurs
US sanctions Thailand’s officials over deportation of #Uyghurs to #China https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/us-sanctions-thailand-officials-china-uighurs?traffic_source=rss #Thailand #HumanRights
#TNI #TransnationalInstitute is a group that mostly releases great reports, analysis, etc, on #techgiants, #capitalism #resourcecolonialism #labor etc
But when it comes to #China, they'll somehow willingly publish pro-CCP propaganda-lite, factually dubious BS like this, romanticizing the #Mao era, regurgitating South-South solidarity talk points & of course, ignoring the #CCP's glaring similarities to Israel in its treatment of #Uyghurs #Tibetans & #HongKongers
https://www.tni.org/en/article/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters