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China’s Far West: One Year On

By Demdigest on July 13, 2010

Senator Byron Dorgan, Chairman and Representative Sander Levin, Cochairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China invite you to a roundtable discussion on “China’s Far West: Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots” on Monday, July 19, 2010 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628.
At this CECC roundtable, panelists will [read full story]

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Xinjiang and Tibet: time on Beijing’s side?

By Demdigest on July 8, 2010

As it struggles to strengthen its grip on the restive minority regions at its periphery, China usually feels that time is on its side. In both Buddhist Tibet and Muslim Xinjiang, China hopes that economic development, improved infrastructure and steady demographic shifts will gradually ease the ethnic tensions that periodically erupt into violence.
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Beijing strives to win Uighur hearts and minds

By Demdigest on July 6, 2010

China’s ruling Communist Party is marking the anniversary of last year’s unrest in Urumchi with a campaign to win Uighur hearts and minds while still refusing to reveal details of the events or officially recognize the underlying causes of the violence.
This week sees “a really solemn and horrible anniversary of the day when Uighurs in [read full story]

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Is U.S. ‘discombobulated’ by authoritarian China?

By Michael Allen on November 10, 2009

The U.S. administration’s policy of “strategic reassurance” to China, criticized as political timidity by some, should not deter President Barack Obama from using his “superlative skills as a communicator, bridge-builder, and moral beacon” to address issues of human rights and reform on his forthcoming debut visit, write Brookings’ analysts Cheng Li and Jordan Lee.
Last year’s [read full story]

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Beijing’s ‘ethnic drowning’, centralist tendencies and cultural chauvinism at root of Uighur unrest

By Demdigest on July 16, 2009

The continuing unrest in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region is at least partly due to the communist authorities’ promotion of a Han-migration strategy that is “tantamount to cultural annihilation”, according to one analyst. The region, also known as East Turkestan, is home to the country’s Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.
Demographically, Beijing is not pursuing [read full story]

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China’s repressive policies at root of Urumchi unrest

By Demdigest on July 6, 2009

At least 140 people have been killed and hundreds more arrested following clashes in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, home to the country’s Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.
The World Uyghur Congress, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, explained that the peaceful protests were organized in response to a recent attack on Uyghur [read full story]

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