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From Pacific News Service: At a time when Islamic populations around the world are under increased scrutiny, the Chinese Hui are often confused in the Western media with China’s second-largest Muslim minority, the restive Uighurs, an ethnically distinct group concentrated in China’s Central-Asian Xinjiang province. Chafing under Chinese rule, the Uighurs have given the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Telegraph: The Chinese government has cut off Tibet from the outside world for a series of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of what Beijing calls its “autonomous” local government, according to independence campaigners. China’s fourth most senior leader, Jia Qinglin, is presiding over a series of events in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Affairs (article preview only): An unprecedented need for resources is now driving China’s foreign policy. A booming domestic economy, rapid urbanization, increased export processing, and the Chinese people’s voracious appetite for cars are increasing the country’s demand for oil and natural gas, industrial and construction materials, foreign capital and technology. Twenty years ago, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Independent Online: China has ordered nearly a third of its thousands of coal mines to halt production and improve safety in the world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said on Wednesday. The latest in a series of crackdowns, which have had little if any effect so far, was reported the same day […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Mr. Zhang, 47, is one of China’s best-known artists. For years, his works – like those of other avant-garde artists of his generation – could not be exhibited in China, often because they were deemed too modern or politically questionable. But now his paintings are not only collected by wealthy […]
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