Happy new year MCLC.
I am wondering if anything more has come to light regarding the closure of the web journal “The China Project” which succeeded “SUP China.”
The China Project web journal was closed down in December for no clear reason, but there was some mention of withdrawal of funds. Were the financial support withdrawn to kill the journal? For what purpose?
We know that one of the key sponsors/financiers, Anla Cheng, who was closely involved and listed as founding the SUPChina journal in 2015, is also involved in both the socalled Committee of 100 Chinese in America, and in the China Institute in New York, neither of which has ever said anything, or permitted any kind of activity that touches on, let alone criticising the monstrous atrocities now under way in Xinjiang (East Turkestan).
At one point, she suggested to the South China Morning Post that the mass atrocities is only a problem of different “perceptions” (!), not reality (see here), and refused to clarify.
Given this context, it is very difficult to avoid speculating that the CP closure had something to do with a desire to silence the good work of the China Project journal, in regularly featuring several knowledgeable writers on the Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang (East Turkestan).
Magnus Fiskesjö, <magnus.fiskesjo@cornell.edu>, or: <nf42@cornell.edu>