China and East Asia: September 2004

Repression and Revolt in China’s Wild West

By: Joshua Kurlantzick

Description: "A struggle looms within Xinjiang's Uighur population between a no-holds-barred, more violent resistance to Beijing and a more assimilationist, peaceful approach that hopes to win greater political autonomy and economic rights. Unfortunately, too often both Beijing's and Western nations' policies toward Xinjiang only strengthen the hard-liners."

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