China’s wild west
With July's violence in Urumqi following last year's riots in Tibet, is China under threat in its frontier provinces? Xinjiang's minorities, the Muslim Uyghurs in particular, face discrimination. Though their dislocation is more social and cultural than religious, without real autonomy Islamic fundamentalism is set to growMy journey to China's westernmost province began this May in the backroom of an ordinary brasserie in one of Paris's eastern suburbs. ... Full Story »
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The Uyghur have been a persecuted minority for the duration of the People's Republic, and probably long before. Han understanding of the situation seems as limited as their understanding of why the Tibetans hate them, even among the educated in cosmopolitan cities of China and among many Han living in the West.