Word: xinjiang
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...northern steppe offer the perfect opportunity to get away from the familiar. Not to be confused with the independent country of Mongolia to the north, Inner Mongolia lies in a giant arc just beyond the Great Wall, stretching from Manchuria in the east all the way west to Xinjiang?and occupying nearly one-eighth of China's land mass...
Left undefined, the rhetoric of antiterrorism can easily be appropriated for other ends. The People’s Republic of China, for example, has used the current antiterrorism fervor to further repress the Uighur population of its western Xinjiang autonomous region. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim, do not speak Chinese and have little cultural affiliation with China. A Uighur separatist movement has used bombings and assassinations to pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam...
...According to Clark, whose company manages mainland rock superstar Cui Jian and six other acts, the only choice for now is to learn to live with pirates. During a recent recording session in Shenzhen with Tongue, a hard-core Xinjiang outfit, Clark takes time out to explain his company's unique approach. In China, he says, albums have to be viewed as promotions for a company's artists, not as revenue-generating products. Money is made from concerts and corporate sponsorships for acts or events. So his company stamps just enough CDs to attract the pirates' attention, who then...
...hard” anti-crime campaigns have given tax collectors, judges, court clerks, party leaders and other officials a free reign on using torture to extract confessions and information from “criminals” like Zhou Jiangxiong. These practices are particularly prevalent in restive Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where ethnic minorities and their families undergo various forms of cruel and unusual punishment if they are even suspected of being involved in separatist activities...
...enough. The U.S. must take a tougher stance on China and human rights. China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be conditional on a tangible improvement in the respect of human and minority rights. A U.N. monitoring team must also be allowed into Xinjiang and Tibet to ensure that separatists and protesters are treated fairly. Admittedly, China will not be happy about such conditions. But WTO access is worth more to China than having the freedom to torture its people. The U.S. government ought to use its leverage to help China’s leaders...