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China’s other Muslims | The Economist
THE faithful are returning from the haj. Waiting for prayers outside the Great Mosque in Tongxin, a remote town in the western province of Ningxia, Li Yuchuan calls his pilgrimage a liberation: “Our...
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Home on the Range, Chinese Style – China Real Time Report – WSJ
It’s a small step in the right direction, driven more by necessity than enlightened policy. That’s the view from economists on China’s move this year to put forward a range for its economic growth...
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China’s Communist Party: Still Big, and Getting Bigger – China Real Time...
Quality over quantity. Less is more. Those have been the watchwords of the Chinese Communist Party ever since its top leaders declared in early 2013 that its membership would be controlled in a bid to...
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At least 18 dead in attack in China’s Xinjiang: Radio Free Asia | Reuters
At least 18 people are dead after ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China’s western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday. The attack...
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China steps up controls in unruly Xinjiang as Ramadan approaches | Reuters
Some local governments in China’s unruly far western region of Xinjiang are stepping up controls on the Islamic faith followed by the Uighur people ahead of Ramadan, including making officials swear...
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China’s drive to settle new wave of migrants in restive Xinjiang | South...
Newly employed as a hotel receptionist in Xinjiang, Fang Lihua is a foot soldier on the front line of a demographic contest for the mainly Muslim region’s identity as China opens it up for migration....
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Chinese president to launch economic corridor link in Pakistan | Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pakistan on Monday to launch $46 billion in projects linking the allies, a figure that would far exceed U.S. spending in Pakistan and underscores China’s...
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Top China cotton producer resists reforms in restive Xinjiang | Reuters
China’s top cotton producer, a quasi-military body formed 60 years ago to settle the far west Xinjiang area, is resisting a government policy that could force it to cut output in an industry employing...
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5 Things to Know About Turkey and the Chinese Uighurs – WSJ
View image | gettyimages.com 1 TURKISH NATIONALISTS CONSIDER UIGHURS KIN. Many Turkish nationalists regard the Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language, as part of a broad family of ethnic Turks spread...
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China expels top police official from Communist Party | Reuters
Fast and furious, the anti-corruption campaign continues to run. “A top police official under investigation for corruption has been expelled from China’s ruling Communist Party, the country’s top...
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Ethnic minorities: Don’t make yourself at home | The Economist
CHINA is urbanising at a rapid pace. In 2000 nearly two-thirds of its residents lived in the countryside. Today fewer than half do. But two ethnic groups, whose members often chafe at Chinese rule, are...
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Police in China shoot dead six in restive Xinjiang | Reuters
A group of “mobsters” on Monday tried to set off an explosive device in a business district in China‘s troubled western region of Xinjiang, prompting police to shoot six of them dead, the local...
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About 300 Chinese said fighting alongside Islamic State in Middle East | Reuters
About 300 Chinese people are fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Monday, a rare tally that is likely to fuel worry in China that militants pose...
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China’s Development of Xinjiang Spurs Resentment from Uighurs – Businessweek
Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang in China, is a cold and forbidding place to visit in late November. The red and blue flashing lights of police vehicles are everywhere. Soldiers wearing black masks and...
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Police firearms: Weaponised | The Economist
WHEN five assailants armed with long knives started murdering bystanders at a railway station in the south-western Chinese city of Kunming on March 1st, the first police to respond were ill-equipped to...
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China builds friendship railway to link Pakistan | The Times
In a park outside Islamabad, fountains tinkle beneath the huge glass façade of the new Pakistan-China Friendship Centre. “Pakistan China friendship is as high as the Himalayas, as deep as the ocean and...
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BBC News –‘Suspects shot’ in Xinjiang imam killing
Police have shot dead two suspects in the killing of the imam of China’s largest mosque and captured another, state media say. Jume Tahir was the imam in Kashgar, in China’s restive Xinjiang region. He...
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Police shoot dead dozens of attackers during mob violence in Xinjiang | South...
Police in Xinjiang shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the westerly Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua news agency said on...
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Shenzhen to pump one billion yuan into building new Xinjiang university |...
Shenzhen will pump one billion yuan (HK$1.26 billion) into a new university to be built in Xinjiang’s southern Kashgar city, on top of the region’s own one billion yuan of investment. Shenzhen was...
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Terrorist attack kills dozens in China’s tense Xinjiang region – CNN.com
A series of explosions tore through an open-air market in the capital of the volatile western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing dozens of people and wounding many more, state media...
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