Word: xinjiang
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...China, they see this increasingly powerful and confident country spending more and more on its military, its economy booming, its financial power overseas growing," says Jiang of the University of Alberta. "But when Chinese leadership looks at the country they see the exact opposite: weaknesses everywhere from Tibet to Xinjiang, to rising inflation and civil unrest, environmental disasters and corruption. So the overall mentality of the central authorities is very insecure and nervous." Jiang argues that the only way to move toward a solution in Tibet is to negotiate with the Dalai Lama. But he says leaders are now trapped...
...facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese press meanwhile has reported several recent clashes with separatist rebels in the province; in early March, the press reported that a Uighur woman...
...Only a combination of tough public shaming, which clearly tarnishes China's valued global image, and private dialogue with Beijing, not ostracism, can produce results. Indeed, by spotlighting China's abuses in Xinjiang province, where there are policies as harsh as those in Tibet, while quietly reaching out to Chinese officials, the Bush Administration has won the release of leading Uighur dissidents...
...China's top leadership, but one, some diplomats believe, that could not have taken anyone in the central government completely by surprise. The leadership in Beijing is pitted against its domestic opponents, who include not only Tibetan dissidents but also separatist groups in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang as well as human-rights and political activists throughout the country...
...from day one," says a senior Western diplomat, that "a successful bid for the Games would bring an unprecedented - and in some cases very harsh - spotlight" on China and how it is governed. On the other side, everyone from human-rights activists to independence-seeking dissidents in Tibet and Xinjiang - "splittists" in the vernacular of Chinese officialdom - knew that they would have an opportunity to push their agendas with the world watching. "Though the specific trigger for this in Tibet is still unclear, that it intensified so quickly is probably not just an accident," the Western diplomat says. According...