China’s restless West: The burden of empire | The Economist
After a brutal attack in China, the Communist Party needs to change its policies towards minorities A GROUP of knife-wielding assailants, apparently Muslims from western China, caused mayhem and murder...
View ArticleTwo attackers among three killed in China bombing | Reuters
Two of the assailants who carried out a bombing in western China were among the three people killed, state media said on Thursday, in an attack which also wounded 79 and has raised concerns over its...
View ArticleSix wounded in knife rampage at Guangzhou Railway Station | South China...
At least six people were wounded in a knife attack at Guangzhou Railway Station yesterday, the third assault on civilians at train stations in two months. Witnesses said four assailants began attacking...
View ArticleIn China’s Xinjiang, economic divide seen fuelling ethnic unrest | Reuters
Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far...
View ArticleIslamic leaders join efforts against extremism – China – Chinadaily.com.cn
China’s top Islamic leaders urged the nation’s Muslims to resist religious extremism and oppose to terrorism after a number of violent attacks in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in March and...
View ArticleTerrorist 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...
View ArticleShenzhen 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleAbout 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleEthnic 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleChinese 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...
View ArticleChina’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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