Magnus Fiskesjö
magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social
Magnus Fiskesjö
@magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social
I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
Latest, on China's settler colonialism in Tibet

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Génocide ouïghour - Trajectoire d'un projet colonial chinois

Dilnur Reyhan

Paris: La découverte. 15 Octobre 2026. 9782348071669
www.placedeslibraires.fr/listeliv.php...
September 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
This is correct from @genocidewatch.bsky.social

China's Uyghur genocide is proceeding brutally, not least against the hundreds of thousands of kidnapped children zombified in the pretend-"boarding school" Gulag for kids.

genocidewatch.com/de/tenstages
September 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Fascinating how China's state propaganda picks up Elon Musk & his mom praising China-minutes after their X tweets on "China awesome"!

They don't pick up on how Musk confessed to self-censoring himself and slipping into genocide denialism (as per Walter Isaacson's Musk book)

So much for free speech
August 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
substack.com/@magnusfiske...

Dark obsessions - Skin color and racist media play

MAGNUS FISKESJÖ

...on Substack, about a tourist company's media clip
August 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The Land Drenched in Tears
by Söyüngül Chanisheff.
English translation by Rahima Mahmut.
Hertfordshire Press, 2018. www.englishpen.org/translation/...
Harrowing true memoir from China's colony of Xinjiang. Author detained as a young woman, spent nearly 2 decades in China's prisons.
August 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
New reports reveal China’s government is now stealing the citizenship of a citizen of Japan, AND of his 3 children.

Just like they have tried with my fellow Swedish and EU citizen #GuiMinhai.

See: x.com/jenniferzeng...

+ see in Chinese:
x.com/LUOXIANG_PMT...

We need to give them ultimatums.
August 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Reclaiming Uyghur Agency Through Artistic Practices: A Conversation with Mukaddas Mijit.
The World of Music [New Series], Issue 15(1), 2026.
wom-journal.org/wom/article/...
July 21, 2026 at 3:54 PM
US elites living off their conquests, wouldn't have nasty, brutish and short lives? That's for little people, no?

But you are right they're taking us back to the pre-UN, 19th c "Might is Right." There's a deep US tradition of contempt for international law, "might-is-our-right." Rubio builds on it:
July 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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July 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Our FM says China's liar-in-chief told her Gui Minhai is alive. No proof but if true, that's the first comment they deigned making after telling us for 8 years to shut up.

If true, when will @mariamstenergard.bsky.social visit him?
When is he coming home to Sweden?
www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
July 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I think many people laughing also don't understand that Thiel & Co are effectively turning the US into a China: total surveillance=total targeting to crush dissent.
China's regime is brutal but it really runs on cowing people into pre-obedience, so that they "know what not to know"(=like MAGA now):
July 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Another example:

A Chinese painting glorifying the empire's 1750s mass extermination of the Dzungarian Mongol people as part of the conquest of what they now call Xinjiang, "New Conquest"

This genocide was recently praised by China's current leader, as "good for the unity of the country"[=empire]
June 30, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Someone should write about how Chinese colonial-imperialist art has been doing the same all along.

Where are the exhibits, articles, exposing Chinese imperialism?

Here is an example: 18th century painting glorifying imperial Chinese troops massacring the Miao resistance.
June 30, 2026 at 3:49 PM
The Machine also recently picked up the verb "vibe" -- now used for foreign "influencers" recruited "from 14 countries" to help them patch over China's genocide on the Uyghurs:

'Xinjiang Vibes' kicks off, bringing the real Xinjiang to the world. CGTN, 19-May-2026. news.cgtn.com/news/2026-05...
June 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Golden video stuff from an Asia Society pro-Beijing event in NYC a couple days ago:

A decent guy from China stands up to the pro-dictator KMT!

Other meek audience members hunker down cowardly...
June 12, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Very good from Engin Eroglu, MEP & Chair of the European Parliament China Delegation, on China's atricious fake "ethnic unity" which violates international law.

All European, American & other ultranationalists, pay attention. Or are you just the *same* as the genocidal Chinese Communist Party?
May 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Oh look: China's @volvocars.bsky.social deploys the slick propaganda officer Hu Xijin in new ad campaign.

So, Volvo now shares the burden of the genocide. Also reminds us of all the GT lies spread by Hu Xijin against Sweden, over China's kidnapping of our citizen #GuiMinhai.

Never drive a Volvo
April 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Yes!!!! but will it hold? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
April 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I am hearing about a cyberattack on the new uyghurpost.com , being flooded with disturbance. Probably a Chinese state attack.
March 10, 2026 at 5:42 PM
@NRK och andra norska media måste fråga Børge Brende vad han egentligen menade när han och Epstein talade om hur Davos skulle ersätta FN och sedan hålla på med "genetics"(!!!).

Finns det inga journalister som ställer de frågorna?
February 26, 2026 at 10:30 PM
ps. Finns det några nyheter om vad Børge Brende egentligen menade när han och Epstein talade om hur Davos skulle ersätta FN -- och sedan hålla på med "genetics"(!).

Finns det inga journalister som ställer frågor?
Inte Reuters, AP, inte VG, MB ...
Ingen alls? inte ens efter att han avgått (idag)?
February 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
How to dupe people: Chinese Party propaganda officer Li Jingjing recycling "Lucifer," a figure specialized in duping people online, then publishing it to dupe some more. Here, he tricked a nameless Native American guy. On Lucifer, and similar psy-op agents, see my analysis: u.osu.edu/mclc/2025/07...
February 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Excellent on Noam Chomsky, from Huey Li:

www.facebook.com/reel/2271115...
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Huey Li, excellent on how many young people & leftists swallow 'antiamerican' propaganda engineered by Russia (and China) for a US foreign policy abandoning everyone else, notably Ukraine, and favoring Russia's war, as relayed by Chomsky, Sachs, Piker etc. www.facebook.com/reel/2271115...
February 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM