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China’s Wild West: A Cautionary Tale of Ethnic Conflict and Development -- Dr. Sean R. Roberts and Kilic Bugra Kanat, The Diplomat
China’s efforts to project power westwards are meeting resistance from local Muslims. A sign of problems to come?
While the international media has extensively analyzed the demonstrations and street clashes in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt over the last several weeks, there has been very little coverage of the street violence happening in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (aka East Turkistan). The Xinjiang violence has not been as impressive in terms of numbers of protestors and certainly offers less photographic and video documentation to make its story compelling than these other, sexier street battles of this summer of discontent, but what is happening in China’s northwest may be no less significant to future geopolitics.
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My Comment: Xinjiang province is to China what the Caucasus are to Russia .... Muslim societies who want to have their own independent regions/countries. This is a long term problem .... and one that will still be around for the foreseeable future.
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