Xinjiang – A Public Education Library in the Making

Xinjiang – A Public Education Library in the Making

Photo collage © Jan Oberg 2024 Launched on November 17, 2024Updated with new materials regularly TFF Associates Editor Jan Oberg TFF Board members Thore Vestby and Jan Oberg participated in a week-long Nordic fact-finding mission to the Xinjiang Province in China in September 2024. Everywhere, the delegation was met with a sincere wish to develop […]

“If You Want To Understand China” – Foreword, Intro and Content of a TFF anthology.

“If You Want To Understand China” – Foreword, Intro and Content of a TFF anthology.

Foreword August 25, 2024 – July 7, 2025 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that addresses one of the most important – and potentially dangerous – issues of our time: Why are the political, economic, and medialised Western images of China so consistently negative – […]

What is it about China? 


What is it about China? 


Thore Vestby February 12, 2025 This is a chapter in a TFF anthology in the making “If You Want To Understand China.” Foreword, Introduction, Authors and Table of Content here. China has had an unprecedented development in the last 4 decades. It cannot be disputed. The progress list is long and covers absolutely everything, literally […]

Report from the Nordic delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, September 7-15, 2024

Report from the Nordic delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, September 7-15, 2024

November 16, 2024 I. Introduction The initiative for the “Nordic Delegation to China, September 7-15, 2024” was taken from the Norwegian side. Journalist and former editor Arild Vollan wanted to investigate claims in the media about an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China. Vollan selected an independent, […]

Why don’t we have China trains in Norway?

Why don’t we have China trains in Norway?

Thore Vestby & Arild Vollan September 26, 2024 Visiting today’s China is like travelling into the future. So much has happened in the last 20-30 years that we should travel to China to learn and see what is happening. It’s incredible what the country has achieved in just a few years. Soon, China will have […]

Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

Has China changed in the last few years? Some travel observations

© Jan Oberg “Biking Mom in Xian” Collage – 2023 Thore Vestby TFF Board member September 27, 2023 Certainly, China has evolved continually and progressively, step by step. My expectations were high when I visited this autumn, my first trip post-pandemic. Between 2015 and 2020, I had visited this vast country almost 20 times. Each […]

TFF’s “Behind The Smokescreen” Report

TFF’s “Behind The Smokescreen” Report

Gordon Dumoulin Jan Oberg Thore Vestby The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research Lund, Sweden • TFF@transnational.org • The Transnational • Ph +46 (0)738 525200 • August 6, 2021 • © TFF 2021 Photo: Yiran Ding, Shanghai, Splash 丁亦然 Download and share this report as PDF Table of Content IntroductionThe China Cold War Agenda as […]

The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda

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The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda

A Critical Analysis Of A Report By The Newlines Institute And The Raoul Wallenberg Center Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden • TFF@transnational.org • The Transnational • Ph +46 (0)738 525200 April 27, 2021 © TFF 2021 On March 8, 2021, the Newlines […]

Fastställande av folkmord i Xinjiang som agenda

Fastställande av folkmord i Xinjiang som agenda

En kritisk analys av en rapport från Newlines Institute och Raoul Wallenberg Center Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg och Thore Vestby Transnationella Stiftelsen för Freds- och Framtidsforskning, TFF, Lund, Sverige TFF@transnational.org • The Transnational • Ph +46 (0) 738 525200 Översättning av engelska utgåvan: Rolf Nilsson Den 5. maj, 2021 Den 8 mars 2021 publicerade Newlines […]

📌 BREAKING: TFF Statement – “Convert Military Expenditures To Global Problem-Solving”

📌 BREAKING: TFF Statement – “Convert Military Expenditures To Global Problem-Solving”

The TFF Global Conversion Campaign StatementPlease sign!Together with millions of voices, yours does make a difference. Please ask your friends to sign it too… In Danish here See also Jan Oberg’s Prime Minister speech on the Corona as a security policy crisis which was made in support of this campaign. Lund, Sweden – December 10, […]