Bill Bishop flagged it. I checked the data. He was right.
人民领袖 ("People's Leader") is trending back into Chinese state media — a Mao-era honorific that's been off-limits since 1978.
Full analysis in today's Sinocism. Data via PropagandaScope.
sinocism.com/p/the-people...

Høfligere tone kan få flere forskere til å delta i samfunnsdebatten Forskere må delta i samfunnsdebatten, men mange kvier seg. En høfligere tone i ordskiftet kan være nøkkelen til at flere tør å bruke stemmen sin, særlig i møte med digital hets og økende polarisering.

"Forskere må delta i samfunnsdebatten, men mange kvier seg. En høfligere tone i ordskiftet kan være nøkkelen til at flere tør å bruke stemmen sin, særlig i møte med digital hets og økende polarisering.

Dette er ikke en individuell kamp, men en strukturell utfordring."
www.khrono.no/hofligere-to...

'Must Be Corrected': A Leaked University Document Reveals China's Plan to Erase the Mongolian Language An internal Party directive from Inner Mongolia University

I obtained an internal Party document from Inner Mongolia University, stamped "strictly prohibited from external distribution," that details 19 directives for eliminating the Mongolian language. The original Chinese PDF is also available for download.

open.substack.com/pub/soyonbo/...

China’s New Ethnic Unity Law: From Autonomy to Assimilation | Council on Foreign Relations A sweeping new national law signals Beijing’s decisive turn away from ethnic autonomy and toward enforced assimilation.

"A sweeping new national law signals Beijing’s decisive turn away from ethnic autonomy & toward enforced assimilation.

This new law is the culmination of a policy trajectory that has been building for over a decade, dating back to the 2014 Central Ethnic Work Conference"
www.cfr.org/articles/chi...

"The online space has become our very last [classroom], museum, and community hall,” journalist @soyonbo.bsky.social tells PEN America. #InternationalMotherLanguageDay

"Mongolian is a backward language, it can only describe nomadic culture like cows, sheep, or grassland." - my re-education teacher in 2020

Apparently, there is a really "wild" exhibition being held in Moscow.

As Russian imperialism would, it is in conjunction with the "Year of National Unity" & contains many objects, some displayed for 1st time, from peak Mongol - Rus interaction.

Gist: "Chingisids happily served Moscow"
#MongolSky

Postdoktor i Antropologi: Kjøtt, Infrastruktur og Zoonotisk Risiko Langs Kinas Belt and Road (291884) | UiT Norges arktiske universitet Stillingstittel: Postdoktor i Antropologi: Kjøtt, Infrastruktur og Zoonotisk Risiko Langs Kinas Belt and Road (291884), Arbeidsgiver: UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Søknadsfrist: søndag 26. april 20...

3-year postdoc at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
ERC-funded project Zoonosis: Zoonotic Anthropology & Multispecies Infrastructures along China's Belt and Road.
Suggested field sites include Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and #Mongolia.
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

It makes sense, coz you two would be "talking" to each toher 24/7 on my feed at the time 😆. (Ps. Id be honored to be mixed up with Batzorig lol)

Lol I remembered. It was arash azizi 😅 not you.

Perhaps. Indeed quite possible that it was another agha.

I remember you saying what you reiterated, but also separately, I remember you noticing how what used to be on the Wednesday itself slowly moved to the "eve" of it during last decade or so. Since it was all on the other platform, I don't have a record of it though, and can't back up my words. 😁

Mongolia edges towards autocracy The consolidation of power in the hands of the MPP is pushing the country towards a hybrid single-party regime.

Though there were signs of it, the big moment of realization came in 2021, when Mongolia effectively orchestrated its presidential elections "in return" for China's vaccines & a promise to join the "community of common prosperity".
My op-ed on it at the time:
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Mongolia PM resigns after anti-corruption protests Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned on Tuesday following weeks of anti-corruption protests in the country's capital.

The turning point is obv last year's protests.I had my 2 cents on it:
"Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva, a political analyst and former adviser on Mongolia's National Security Council, said protesters had effectively forced a vote on "the legitimacy of the political system"
www.france24.com/en/live-news...?

I was eagerly waiting for this year's V-Dem Institute's report and democracy indices update.

As expected, Mongolia has finally turned the corner of democratic backsliding.

Having Russia & China as neighbors is never easy & Covid also had its impact.
v-dem.net/documents/75...

agha, apoligize for tangential line, but weren't you categorically against shifting it to tuesday?

"representative from Inner Mongolia, in a glorious blue silk robe, whether she had seen any policies that would be specifically helpful for Mongolians. “I haven’t,” she said “but forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the guiding thread & that’s good for all minorities.”

There are 56 ethnicities in China—and 55 are getting squashed China wants its minorities decorative, but not distinct

These days all major outlets are covering the new law on "ethnic unity" and how it will erase China's minorities & even prosecute parents who "instill" detrimental views in their children.

It is a sad development, the outcomes of which are long prescribed.
www.economist.com/china/2026/0...

Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'? A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.

"By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans & Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. Instead, they will be forced to use Mandarin Chinese"
www.bbc.com/news/article...

China’s Erasure of Ethnic Minority Languages China’s linguistic assimilation campaign continues to advance.

Then @sophiedrich.bsky.social writes in @thediplomat.com about the changes to law in China around languages that continue the process of erasing minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian & Uyghur

(The tags #MilkTeaAlliance #savemongolianlanguage appeared together a few times over the years)
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"Under the new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, while minority languages may still be taught as a second language, groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native tongues for core subjects in schools and universities."

China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

If the Iraq war gave CCP a chance to ride the bandwagon w/ Bush & Co & crush Uighur dissent under the "terrorism" pre-text, the new regional war in Middle East is apparently giving Beijing another opportunity to finish the cultural genocide of minorities including Mongols.
www.ft.com/content/94be...

Hautala, Roman. Masters of the Earth: A History of the Golden Horde, 1219–1502. London: Reaktion Books, 2026.
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/masters...

#mongolsky
#tengri
#medievalsky

Territorial Natures A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia.   Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded int...

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026.

You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

CfP: Reframing Tibetan and Mongol Mapmaking Practices (pre-20th century)

CfP: Reframing Tibetan and Mongol Mapmaking Practices, due March 1

Amazing opportunity for 18th and 19th c. historians to study some exquisite 20th c. artifacts at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/zentralas...

Terje Rød-Larsen til Jeffrey Epstein: «Kriser betyr muligheter» Seksualforbryter Jeffrey Epstein og Terje Rød-Larsen diskuterte fred og forretninger i Midtøsten, Kasakhstan og Mongolia. «Kriser betyr muligheter», sa Rød-Larsen til Epstein.

Wow 😱
"Både Bondevik, Epstein og alle de andre medlemmene av rådet fikk en årlig utbetaling på 100.000 dollar fra Mongolia, ifølge interne IPI-dokumenter."
www.nrk.no/norge/terje-...

Since it is #TsagaanSar here are the screenshots of the opening and closing scenes of President of Mongolia's greetings.

Both in Mongol Bichig:

Wishing you all to ride through the year of fire horse with high Khiimori!

ᠰᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠡ ᠶ᠋ᠢᠨ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠦ ᠳᠡᠪᠰᠢᠭᠦᠯᠦᠶ᠎ᠡ 🫶 🙏

Russian imperialism - the metropolitan racist elite that sucks out all the resources from the periphery & then makes the colonized poor fight its fascist wars.

If you serve as the Tsar's private "oprichnina" like Chechnya does today, there is a temporary respite. But that is all to it.

Wooden composite frame saddle (top left), illustration of the saddle from three angles (top right) and illustration of the saddle on a horse, annotated with features (bottom).

This #NationalInventorsDay we want to see your favourite inventions from the past!

We'll start, with the 'true frame' saddle: the sturdy frame made mounted combat easier, making this invention instrumental to the rise of Mongolian steppe cultures.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.

New open-access book: 𝘙𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki. Download it as PDF or Epub on our Environment & Society Portal. #EnvHum