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\nFrom the Economist<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\n\"D4905As1\"<\/a>China’s goal is not just to replicate the boom of its coastal areas. It wants to tame Xinjiang<\/a>, its wild western frontier. Since January 2000, when China launched the “great development of the west<\/a>” (often referred to as the “Go west” policy), it has been clear that there is more to this than simply boosting growth in China’s economic backwaters. It is shorthand for a policy of tightening central control over remote, far-flung territories and assimilating them into China proper. Xinjiang (literally meaning “New Frontier”) was the most recalcitrant region of the lot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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