As the Olympic torch relay keeps the world’s attention focused on recent unrest in Tibetan areas, more details are emerging about reported incidents in Xinjiang. From AP: As China grapples with protests in Tibet, it also...
Read MoreHere is an extensive report on Der Spiegel’s English website: Part 1: China Loses Control of the Games Part 2: ‘Journey of Harmony’ Part 3: The Boycott Taboo Part 4: And the Screen Went Dark Simon Elegant also...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: This outpost of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is home to nearly 20,000 ethnic Han Chinese, transplanted from China’s eastern heartland to this arid border territory — which...
Read MoreChina Dialogue has a fantastic slideshow and article from freelance journalist Jack Carino on the nasty effects of Chinese water consumption on Central Asia. See the full slideshow here. From the article: On the upstream side is...
Read MoreWhile little new information has come out since Chinese officials confirmed the stifling of a protest by Uighurs in Hotan on Wednesday, word of the unrest appears to have brought expatriate Uighurs into the fold of Olympic torch...
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Just two weeks after Tibetan monks first took to the streets in protest against Chinese rule, unrest broke out among Muslim Uighurs in China’s remote Xinjiang region. Details about the demonstrations remain...
Read MoreNewsweek’s Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu writes on her blog, Countdown to Beijing, about reports of Muslim Uighurs clashing with police in remote Xinjiang: This is serious indeed, if true. It could represent a perfect...
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer writes in support of Tibetans and against China’s policies in Xinjiang and Tibet: In February 1997, thousands of Uighurs demanding equality, religious freedom and an...
Read MoreThe Black Bats have hit the roads around Shanghai, banding together around an unlikely cultural symbol: the Changjiang 750. The sidecar is a near-replica of the 1938 BMW R71, passed down from the Soviet copycat Ural M72 and...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The death toll from a fireworks explosion in northwest China on Wednesday has been revised down from 25 to 24, after the authorities admitted a mistake in the count on Thursday. Just 13 of the dead have so far been...
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