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China claims territories of 23 countries, but only has borders with 14
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Xinjiang college says approved political views needed to graduate | Reuters
College students in China\’s restive western Xinjiang region will not graduate unless their political views are approved, a university official said, as the country wages what school administrators...
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BBC News – China police kill eight in Xinjiang clash
Police in China\’s restive Xinjiang region have shot dead eight people during a violent clash on Monday, a state news portal says. The clash broke out when men armed with knives and explosives attacked...
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China urges respect for ethnic traditions in restive Xinjiang | Reuters
Ethnic traditions in Xinjiang must be respected, the top official in the restive far western region of China said, despite criticism that government policies there unfairly target the Muslim Uighur...
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More violence in Xinjiang: Unquiet on the western front | The Economist
THE LATEST flurry of news from and about Xinjiang—a fresh bout of deadly violence in the region and the arrest of an activist scholar in Beijing—suggests that Chinese authorities are not about to...
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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...
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What Drives China’s Protest Boom? Labor Disputes and Land Grabs – Businessweek
What are the main reasons Chinese take to the streets, picket government offices, and besiege factory gates? A recent report by the Chinese Academy of Social Science provides some answers on why people...
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Six 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...
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In 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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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