From New York Times: China’s diplomatic relationship with Australia, so recently flourishing despite occasional spats, this month has taken a severe turn toward the governmental equivalent of thrown dinner plates. Public...
Read MoreCan Beijing Bring Order to Its Restive Provinces? This article on the Foreign Affairs says: Early last month, the mayor of Urumqi, the capital of the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, described the struggle to maintain...
Read MoreBorn and raised in Xinjiang, Huang Zhangjin (黄章晋) has worked as a journalist for several media organizations and is also a longtime blogger. Huang was also an editor of online forum, Uighur Online. The following post...
Read MoreFrom PC World: Pro-China and pro-Muslim hackers have clashed online in a series of attacks on Web sites triggered by deadly ethnic riots in China’s Muslim region last month. Messages left on defaced Web sites have either...
Read MoreThe repercussions of the violence in Urumqi last month continue to be felt far and wide, from the Internet to China’s political elite. Hackers on both sides of the issue have been battling online in the past few weeks,...
Read MoreDanwei interviews two journalists for China Newsweek, Wang Gang and Wang Jing, who covered the violence in Urumqi for the magazine: Danwei: Have you been to Xinjiang before? Was there a contrast in ethnic relations between when...
Read MoreReuters reports: The China Iron and Steel Association, which is leading annual iron ore price talks, has sought this year to impose its will on an industry it accuses of undermining its demand for a bigger price cut. Its calls...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: Separating Xinjiang from China is bad for China and the whole world as well, because a stable China is good for everyone, a U.S. scholar has said. “My feeling in the United States is that nobody...
Read MoreFrom AP: China’s military launched war games Tuesday aimed at deploying forces at long distances, reflecting moves to ensure security in the restive western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. The exercises will send 50,000...
Read MoreAn article in Global Times claims again that the flight from Kabul to Urumqi, which was not allowed to land under confusing circumstances over the weekend, was in fact threatened. From AP: The Global Times said authorities in...
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