Tagged with Uyghurs

China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region is experiencing, yet again, deep unrest and unease. News headlines have been dominated by violent clashes between Chinese police and some sections of the Uyghur population — recently a police building in Xinjiang province was bombed and 13 Uyghur activists shot dead in the aftermath. To comprehend the persistent tensions between […]

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 […]