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Jim Millward

@jimmillward.bsky.social
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Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.

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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How can I donate?
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MaggieMay @sleeplesscrone.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is really a sad contradiction for us who work on human rights issues in China: as governments commit to countering CCP influence within their borders (a welcome step), they are concurrently adopting measures that make life harder for those who fled the CCP’s persecution.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here is what CBS’s Weiss censored for the Trump regime.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I direct Duke’s Asia Pacific Studies Center, so we’ve been working with Carolina Asia. Center on joint programs as much as we can this year to make up for budget shortfalls at both institutions. But this summary closure 🤬
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Guan Heng’s citizen journalist reporting helped confirm remote satelite documenting of the gulag in Xinjiang. It supported reports by Congress and UN. Guan Heng is a legal asylum seeker with a work card and a scheduled hearing. ICE is out of control.
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today, U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb ordered a halt to the president’s unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. This ruling provides an important check on presidential power and makes it clear that when we defend D.C., we defend democracy. cnn.it/483j8VW
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Judge halts Trump’s deployment of national guard in Washington, DC | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump and the Defense Department illegally deployed the National Guard in Washington, DC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Remembering Sommers’ sanctimony over appointing a professor of Jewish history to Harvard task force on antisemitism. Sommers never stopped calling pro-Palestine protestors antisemites, and opened the door to Trump attacks on academe based on antisemitism pretext. www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/b...
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Larry Summers blasts Harvard over antisemitism: ‘I have lost confidence’ | CNN Business
Famed economist Larry Summers slammed Harvard’s top leaders on Sunday over concerns about how the Ivy League school is fighting antisemitism.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 20/11/2025
No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders. Do not follow illegal orders. GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
But those college students in tents!
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article... Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation. Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt. But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Perhaps the last statemebt from RFA, wiped out by ill-advised Trump cuts. US blinding itself to what is happening in Asia www.rfa.org/english/abou...
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RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty
With the delay in receiving funding, RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Three cops on an inflatable penis
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.citizenhistorians.org
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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet ...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Kudos to my colleagues @jimmillward.bsky.social and Chandra Manning for organizing and leading this effort. 🗃️
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
So disappointed with the Post these days.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Very stupid idea to create bs new program when threatened. Everyone knows, you only create bs new programs when someone writes you a big enough check.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2025
the story of this administration is going to be a question of which wins out: the enthusiastic capitulation of elite American society to fascism or supercharged thermostatic backlash
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Interesting (and discouraging) example of how PRC desperation to whitewash their policies in Xinjiang hurts its international relations and makes it harder for those trying to maintain engagement with China. A 🧵regarding Princeton Press' trip to Xinjiang:
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
LATimes.com front page right now
Stories on LAPD mishandling protests, an American citizen being kidnapped by ICE, and why ICE is harming rebuilding communities devastated by the January wildfires
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump's order to halt international student visas undermines one of the top US exports--in the top ten, generating billions of revenue annually, not just for universities. I'm not hearing much noise from politicians about this attack on the economy, though.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Piece neglects to mention that Tamara Lanier wrote a book, which is why HU finaly settled www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...
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Harvard Relents After Protracted Fight Over Slave Photos
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The reporting about Trump's stopping of interviews for new student visas misses a main point: Pretty much the whole world besides US and Israel opposes Israel's actions in Gaza. Trump makes social media silence about on-going genocide a visa condition. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews
Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What is Noem talk
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Shame on GW. Universities should certainly be divesting. They should not be punishing their best students for calling out genocide as Israel starves thousands of children to death. These universities will be apologizing for all of this. Faculty reaction? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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George Washington University student banned after pro-Palestinian graduation speech
Senior Cecilia Culver criticized the university’s ties to Israel and called for donations to be withheld
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Incredible that NYU is disciplining its student graduate speaker for mentioning the genocide in Gaza. Middle East Studies Association thinks so too: mesana.org/advocacy/com...
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Middle East Studies Association
Our letter expressing concern about the decision of NYU to withhold the diploma of graduating senior Logan Rozos and subject him to disciplinary action because of remarks he made about Israel’s war on...
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What is Da Yi Tong 大一统 anyway? fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...
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The Great Unity Debate 大一統之辯 – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
最近像摸着石头过河一样尝试写重大历史问题,没想到,我的拙文居然能和这些权威学者的著作一起登上哈佛燕京的平台! fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...
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The Great Unity Debate 大一統之辯 – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is a tragedy and a needless own-goal by the U.S. , which is now blindfolding itself to events in Uyghur, Tibet and ceding the info-space to PRC propaganda. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/03/r...
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RFA shuts language services after Trump cuts, including Uyghur, Tibetan
Radio Free Asia said Friday it will lay off almost all of its staff and close production in several languages, including a rare Uyghur service, after President Donald Trump cut off funding.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We become more and more like PRC
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Look who likes Georgetown administration's refusal to respect an overwhelming student referendum to divest from Israel?! Students were resoundingly in favor of unwinding financial ties to Israeli government that carrying out brutal attacks on Palestinians. www.foxnews.com/us/georgetow...
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Georgetown refuses to cut ties with Israel, stands up to pressure from students
Georgetown University's interim president said the institution will not implement a student referendum calling for divestment from Israeli-linked companies.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The headline for stories about the Harvard reports should be "New reports show Islamophobia more serious problem than antisemitism at Harvard." That what the stats show, by a wide margin. But NYT reported differently: theintercept.com/2025/04/30/h...
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How the New York Times Distorts the Antisemitism Debate on College Campuses
Harvard released dueling reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim bias. Guess which one the Times emphasized?
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Absolutely correct. Did DOGE kids who cut funding for VOA even know they were killing our best sources for news on authoritarian Asian countries at the same time? Killing RFA cedes info space to PRC, is really hurting US, not to mention Uyghurs, Tibetans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Silencing Radio Free Asia. Now China Doesn’t Have To.
The U.S. government’s dismantling of Radio Free Asia means giving Beijing’s propaganda free rein.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Cost of people unable to pay student debt projected over $400 billion over next decade. Imagine if US invested that in state universities up front, to keep public education affordable? => More degrees, fewer people's lives hobbled by bad credit, smarter workforce. wapo.st/44PFKsW
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Opinion | The student loan bubble is about to pop
As collections resume after five years, disaster looms for delinquent borrowers, taxpayers and the economy.
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Pierre Romera Zhang @pirhoo.com · 29/04/2025
New report from @citizenlab.ca found that Uyghur rights activists were targeted by spearphishing campaign, including advocates featured in @icij.org's #ChinaTargets investigation. www.icij.org/investigatio...
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Cyberattack against Uyghur rights activists shows hallmarks of Chinese repression tactics, researchers say - ICIJ
Citizen Lab found the advocates, including some featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation, were targeted with malicious software disguised as a Uyghur-language tool.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What about Radio Free Asia? about.rferl.org/article/us-d...
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US District Court Orders USAGM to Release RFE/RL Funding for April
Today, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)’s latest request for a temporary restraining order in its lawsuit a...
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
No China experience and a 2020 election denier, and still these pathetic dems vote for him. Booker should have spent some of those 25 hours reading up.
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Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Save US taxpayers $650 billion annually. Provide health care to everyone at no cost without stupid complexities. Make US health outcomes like those of other wealthy countries. Medicare for All, instead of GOP cuts to all our health care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders
We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change that
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