Alongside the ongoing oppression of Muslim and indigenous groups in Xinjiang and Tibet, China has been investing heavily in the economy - building massive energy and transport infrastructure, high tech factories and tourism.
Part 2 of our Western China series: as.ft.com/r/cd1f62af-4...
NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.
NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population.
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A vast development drive aims to tap the region’s economic potential and extend Beijing’s control
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The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
#OpEd Russia likes to believe that its colonization of Central Asia civilized and modernized the region. But a row over high school history textbooks shows that local scholars no longer accept that narrative, writes Erica Marat.
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Opinion | At a meeting of the Kyrgyz-Russian Expert Council on History in Moscow, Russian scholars reviewing Kyrgyz secondary school textbooks reprimanded their Kyrgyz counterparts for describing the ...
Wanted to flag two concurrent platforms happening atm, which engage smaller but globally conscious proactive players as the Liberal International Order is rupturing.
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Mongolia's foreign minister Battsetseg Batmunkh at the Nikkei Forum.
Kenya's President William Ruto at Oslo Forum.
Axel Jagau
In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Queen Padmé Amidala wears an outfit that is clearly designed after a Khalkha Mongolian married noble woman's costume. The hair horns are of course the most famous, but the red robe and dress is the same as well.
#starwars #tengri #mongolsky
“The Mongol Empire: In Accordance with the Great Törö" is out in The Cambridge History of International Law!
My gratitude to Profs. Lesaffer, Carrai, and Ranganathan for including my work & to Prof. Foblets (MPI) for her generous support. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene
ᠮᠥᠩᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ / Münkhnaran Bayarlkhagva
Kenny Linden
Really loved today's win by Kirishima.
Display of a classical Mongolian wrestling technique, specifically one that is common in Inner Mongolian wrestling.
Note: Kirishima - Lkhagvasuren Byambachuluun is a Uzemchin Mongol, and his forefathers moved to Mongolia from Inner Mongolia in 1957.
Russian pseudo-liberal opposition is a "gift that keeps on giving" racist, imperialist chauvinism.
Apparently, the recent scandal at PACE platform served as yet another reminder of their double standards & how they don't offer a viable alternative to "putin+".
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ᠮᠥᠩᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ / Münkhnaran Bayarlkhagva
Opinion | The suspension of Ruslan Kutayev from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces should have been straightforward.
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Oz Kirishima 10-2 (L)
M13 Kotoeihō 10-2 (R)
Worthy bout for the musubinoichiban! You’ll be on edge of your seat. Winner takes sole lead for yūshō. There is a mono’ii too boot! See reply #natsubasho2026
