Tagged with Dr Michael Clarke

Chinese authorities offer cash to promote interethnic marriages

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorBelle Hammond
Parts of China’s troubled north-west region of Xinjiang have begun offering cash to interethnic couples as part of a drive to assimilate the culturally distinct Uighur minority. The package includes annual cash payments of 10,000 yuan (£980) for interethnic couples during the first five years of their marriage, as well as housing, healthcare and education […]

Attack at market in China kills 31

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorNatasha Vary
The recent pattern of violence “suggests an escalation both in attacks and the conflict in a societal sense between the Uighur and the Han, which in some ways is unprecedented in scale,” said Dr Michael Clarke. While Xinjiang is home to the Uighur minority, a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim people, most residents of Urumqi are Han […]

Chinese Officials Head to the Countryside

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorNatasha Vary
Half a century after millions of city dwellers were ordered to the countryside, some officials are once again being armed with spades and sent out to the villages of the western regions of China to try to win over the locals. Dr Michael Clarke from the Griffith Asia Institute is quoted in the following article […]

Terrorist attack in China

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorBelle Hammond
Last Wednesday saw another deadly terrorist attack in China, this time in the far-western province of Xinjiang. In what’s believed to have been a suicide attack, two bombers detonated explosives at a train station in Urumqi, the province’s capital, killing one person and injuring seventy-nine. The blast coincided with the visit of China’s President, Xi […]

China seeks strategic advantage in Afghanistan

Griffith Asia Institute
Published AuthorBelle Hammond
China has staked its economic future on deeper integration with Central Asia. But as the US withdraws from Afghanistan, Beijing is concerned that a renewed civil war there could thwart regional development. Griffith Asia Institute’s Dr Michael Clarke spoke with DW’s Spencer Kimballabout the situation. Read the full article on the Deutsche Wellewebsite.