http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:44:16 -0800 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2402/1/Out-of-the-Closet-Chinas-Other-Tibet/index.html The 2008 Olympics held in Beijing helped bring into the limelight the plight of ethnic minorities in China, subject to 'gross human rights violations', according to Amnesty International. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2395/1/Let-us-improve-ourselves/index.html Terrorist work must be condemned and brought to justice from all regions of the world. Yet, race and all people of Islam should not be considered as terrorists, that is, all religions have waged war in the old days and now; do we still hold the people of today, at fault for their ancestors fault? We do not. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2386/1/Chinas-momentous-2008/index.html Tania Branigan recounts extraordinary events from the last 12 months in China and introduces video highlights of the year zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2372/1/Military-Rivalry-in-Central-Asia/index.html The attacks of 9/11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan did not start the new "Great Game" in Central Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2368/1/Intellectuals-Lobby-for-Political-Change-as-Party-Marks-30th-Anniversary-of-the-Reform-Era/index.html While expectations for policy changes are not high as Beijing marks the 30th anniversary of the reform era, a clutch of forward-looking cadres and intellectuals are taking advantage of the occasion to press for bolder measures particularly in political liberalization. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2351/1/Russias-Strategic-Partnership-with-China-Set-to-Grow-in-2009/index.html On December 10 Chief of the General Staff Nikolay Makarov repeated Russia’s threat to deploy short-range Iskander (SS-26) missile systems as one of the promised countermeasures against planned U.S. positioning of several interceptors in Poland as part of the Ballistic Missile Shield (BMD). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2346/1/The-Coming-USChina-Trade-Conflict/index.html A storm is brewing and the media and public are starting to hear the first rumbles of thunder. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2342/1/TLHRC-Co-Chairs-Statement-on-the-occasion-of-Human-Rights-Day/index.html Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chair Jim McGovern calls on United States to recommit itself to international human rights mechanisms recalling historic U.S. leadership role, demands greater international respect for human rights zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2330/1/Judging-detainees-on-the-facts/index.html Earlier this month, US District Judge Richard Leon ruled in the case of six Bosnians held at Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2314/1/US-China-ties-weaken-alliances/index.html As the United States works harder than ever to strengthen relations with China, there are signs its alliances with Japan and Taiwan are weakening. A conspicuous sign of change in Japan-U.S. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2312/1/Economy-not-rights-rules-the-new-China-US-world/index.html Democracy and rights, once central in US-China ties, yield to economics as Obama takes over zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2309/1/MoJo-Video-The-Ex-Gitmo-Detainee-Next-Door-/index.html Washington Dispatch: If freed by a federal court, 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Gitmo may find new homes in northern Virginia. What will the neighbors think? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2295/1/Authorities-Cancel-Plans-to-Subject-Uyghur-Woman-to-Forced-Abortion-Updated/index.html Authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) released from the hospital a Uyghur woman who is six months pregnant with her third child, after cancelling plans to subject her to a forced abortion for violating the region's population planning regulations, according to reports from RFA. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2288/1/Shanghaied-into-Cooperation-/index.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has just finished its eighth summit meeting, with the "Five Day War" between Georgia and Russia proving to be a point of contention. Sreeram Chaulia looks at these differences — as well as differing views among other international organizations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2274/1/Rangzen-The-Case-for-Independent-Tibet-2008-edition-Jamyang-Norbu/index.html Displaying the old mountain and snowlion flag in Tibet is a “splittist” offence for which you could be shot on sight. In this year’s historic uprising, scores, even hundreds, of national flags were defiantly flown throughout Tibet to visually amplify, as it were, the clarion call of the protestors for independence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2258/1/Business-Over-Bluster-/index.html The task ahead of President-elect Barack Obama is not to meet all of the expectations of his supporters or to solve every problem facing the United States right now, but to simply practice what he has preached. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2255/1/Sino-Kazakh-Relations-A-Nascent-Strategic-Partnership/index.html While the Chinese authorities make a point of honoring the establishment of cordial relations with all five Central Asian states, Kazakhstan enjoys a unique status. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2254/1/Beijings-Glorification-of-the-China-Model-Could-Blunt-Its-Enthusiasm-for-Reforms/index.html While Beijing has reiterated its willingness to help combat the international financial crisis, the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration has stopped short of making substantial commitments to the global rescue effort. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2252/1/Is-China-An-Inclusive-Society/index.html With its recent election of an African American president, the United States has continued to evolve into a more inclusive society. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2251/1/Philip-Bowring-Obama-in-the-Orient/index.html Much has been written about the favorable impact of Obama's election on foreign perceptions of the United States. But it is worth turning the question around: What will be the impact on U.S. views of Asia, and Asian countries' views of themselves? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2227/1/Closing-the-doors-on-Gitmo/index.html President Bush said last year that "it should be a goal of the nation to shut down Guantánamo," the offshore prison for foreigners accused of terrorism. But now it seems this goal will remain unfulfilled when the president leaves office. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2224/1/The-great-Beijing-Moscow-Central-Asia-game/index.html Although most world attention during the August Russia-Georgia crisis was on the reactions of the United States and Europe, China's response also made headlines. With China and Russia enjoying a strategic partnership, and sharing a distaste for U.S. "hegemony," Chinese support for Russia's action might have been expected. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2220/1/RIGHTS-US--Freedom-Recedes-for-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo/index.html Seventeen Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for seven years will now have to wait still longer to discover whether a U.S. appeals court will confirm or reverse a judge's earlier decision that they be immediately released into the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2219/1/Hus-New-Deal-and-the-Third-Plenary-Session-of-CCPs-17th-Central-Committee/index.html The just-concluded Third Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 17th Central Committee has pledged a "new deal" with Chinese characteristics for the country’s 730 million-odd farmers through boosting their “material benefits and democratic rights. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2218/1/Beijings-Perspective-Sino-US-Relations-and-the-2008-Presidential-Election/index.html Americans will decide in November whether a Democrat or Republican will become the 44th president of the United States, and the whole world is weighing how the two political parties' platforms and presidential candidates’ persona of “change” will impact the orientation of the world’s superpower and the new world order. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2217/1/Beijing-Bust/index.html On Monday, Beijing announced third quarter GDP growth: 9%, down from 10.1% in the second quarter and 10.6% in the first. The double-digit numbers from the earlier periods represent a slowdown from last year, when Beijing racked up an astounding 11.9% increase. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2212/1/Empty-chair-saved-for-Burmese-poet-comedian/index.html Most featured writers at this year's International Festival of Authors will spend Toronto's 29th annual literary happening engaged in readings, panel discussions, book signings and media interviews, with time out maybe to catch up with cherished friends and colleagues over an evening of dinner and drinks. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2200/1/XINJIANG-CHINAS-PRESSURE-COOKER/index.html Despite the immense publicity generated by the Georgian crisis and the Olympics, those events are by no means the only important developments affecting Central Asia and the Caucasus. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2195/1/Far-East-promise/index.html China's potential lures adventurous winemakers zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2188/1/Unlocking-Gitmo/index.html As a federal judge put it, it's time "to shine the light of constitutionality" on the legal black hole of Guantanamo Bay, the offshore lockup that continues to shame this country, its traditions, and the anti-terrorism fight. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2187/1/Commentary-Free-the-Uighurs/index.html On Oct. 7, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order, unprecedented over the last seven years, directing the government to release immediately 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantánamo into the continental United States by the end of that week. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2184/1/Getting-Gandhi-to-the-Chinese-/index.html In 1980 while on a climbing expedition in the Sinkiang province of China, I was one of two from our group asked by the Chinese hosts to teach an English class to a group of professional (engineers, teachers, doctors), educated Han Chinese who advanced their careers by studying English. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2170/1/Uyghurs-stuck-in-Guantanamo-limbo/index.html Civil rights groups in the United States had lauded Tuesday's Federal Court decision to release 17 Chinese Muslim Uyghurs held without charges for seven years at the infamous US military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Now, it seems they spoke to soon. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2141/1/Is-Peking-really-the-place-for-the-Olympic-spirit-/index.html Just a few months before the opening of the Olympic Games, the world is becoming aware of the tragic situation of China’s minorities. The idea of a peaceful Games seems distant, especially in view of the dramatic situation in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2140/1/Is-Peking-really-the-place-for-the-Olympic-spirit-.html Just a few months before the opening of the Olympic Games, the world is becoming aware of the tragic situation of China’s minorities. The idea of a peaceful Games seems distant, especially in view of the dramatic situation in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2138/1/The-American-dream-got-sold-out-to-China-and-Japan/index.html Many have predicted that the 21st Century will be the Century of China. It seems that the jokers in charge of Wall Street and our federal regulators assigned to watch over "The Street" are attempting to speed up this prediction. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2132/1/The-Asiatic-Landmass-and-the-Geo-strategic-Alliance-Between-China-and-Turkey-/index.html Before precisely 100 years, Turkey (in fact, by then, Ottoman Empire) and Zhongguo (China's Chinese name, meaning 'the Middle Kingdom') were at the same wavelength. Both old empires were facing the onslaught of the perfidious European colonial powers, England and France. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2125/1/The-Home-Team---How-the-Chinese-experienced-the-Olympics/index.html The night before the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics, Wei Ziqi joined two of his neighbors on the local barricade. It consisted of a rope stretched taut across the road, and the attendants had been given wooden paddles that read “Stop!” in both Chinese and English. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2124/1/Post-Olympic-era-off-to-a-rocky-start-in-China/index.html The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games is slowly giving way to economic worries, new safety crises and a future both brimming with confidence and tinged with uncertainty. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2123/1/For-a-fairer-Games-cut-out-the-silliness/index.html NOW that the Paralympics are closing, we can concentrate on London 2012 and helping the International Olympic Committee select the host for the 2016 Olympics. If Beijing is the yardstick, the winning city should be in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Libya or Burma. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2112/1/Former-diplomat-says-West-has-fantasy-view-of-China/index.html Canadians have fallen for a Chinese government "charm offensive," says a former Canadian diplomat and specialist on Chinese mafia "Triad" gangs and Communist China's government-directed espionage in Canada. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2110/1/China-is-a-multi-ethnic-state-with-little-multiculturalism/index.html Clad in brightly-coloured costumes, 56 children paraded through the Bird's Nest at last month's Olympic Opening ceremonies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2098/1/A-crackdown-in-Chinas-wild-West-its-Muslim-majority-chunk-of-Central-Asia-/index.html On the roads crossing the dusty fields of cotton and maize around the oasis city of Kashgar, China’s police are on alert. Terrorists, as they call them, have been stepping up their attacks. Officers at checkpoints turn back foreigners venturing towards troublespots. Citizens entering Kashgar line up by the roadside to have their identity cards scanned. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2094/1/Beijings-Post-Olympic-Shakedown-in-Xinjiang-and-Tibet/index.html While the catchwords and slogans of the just-ended Beijing Olympics trumpeted “harmony” and “One World, One Dream,” the traditionally tense relations between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities – particularly Uyghurs and Tibetans – could worsen significantly in the foreseeable future. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2092/1/Beijings-Perspectives-on-the-Russo-Georgian-Conflict-Dilemma-and-Choices/index.html Beijing’s reaction to the Russo-Georgian fiasco has remained muted since Russian tanks rumbled into Georgia on August 8, leading to the most serious standoff between the West and Russia in the post-Cold War era. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2091/1/The-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-and-the-Georgian-Crisis/index.html The Russian invasion, occupation, and dismemberment of Georgia represent the greatest challenge if not crisis to confront the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2079/1/Beijing-tightens-noose-around-Uighurs-ahead-of-Games/index.html Exile groups say hundreds of Uighurs have been detained and thousands of paramilitary forces deployed to the Xinjiang region in response to what local officials have said are terrorist threats from extremist Uighurs who want to form an independent state. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2076/1/Human-rights-and-Beijings-Olympic-hustle-/index.html Those were some swell Olympics in Beijing. There was much exciting sport. Records were broken, many records. The opening ceremony was about as spectacular an event as you are likely ever to see. China got every bit of the public relations boost that it spent $40 billion for. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2075/1/Where-China-Goes-Next/index.html With the Chinese media gushing over the success of the Olympics, the latest issue of Southern Window — a highbrow news magazine with a circulation of 500,000 — caught my eye. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2073/1/Demographic-Profile-China/index.html Looking ahead to 2050, China may regret its longstanding one-child policy. In a rapidly aging society, not having enough children to support the elderly might become the real problem. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2072/1/Chinas-Wild-West-/index.html Unlike their Hollywood friendly brethren, the Tibetans, the Uighurs of northwestern China, claim to be an oppressed minority group that no one has ever heard of. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2070/1/-Jihad-and-Gentle-Resistance-in-the-Wild-West/index.html Beijing has governed the giant Uighur province of Xinjiang for more than five decades. China's Communist Party anticipates more attacks by Uighur separatists during the Olympics -- as revenge for Beijing's harsh treatment of the Muslim minority group. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2067/1/Defying-the-great-Chinese-dragon/index.html While the Olympic Games have provided a chance for China to present its most polished face to the world, they have also given marginalised groups the opportunity to bring their agendas to the world's attention. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2064/1/Philip-Bowring-Chinas-next-challenge/index.html China leads in Olympic golds, but can it lead the global economy? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2036/1/The-Hanification-of-Xinjiang/index.html While Tibet has played the role of China's "rock star" to human-rights activists around the world, China's Xinjiang province has been treated more like an unwanted stepchild. One reason is that Tibet has a true rock star in the exiled Dalai Lama. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2032/1/Was-Beijing-2008-a-Mistake/index.html While the world complains about human rights violations, air pollution, censorship and the despotic rule of the Chinese regime, China is celebrating a dream come true. Many in the West are convinced that awarding the Olympics to Beijing was a mistake. Are they right? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2016/1/Saccharine-smiles-and-jackboots/index.html China's Olympic opening fraud is the perfect metaphor for the country's treatment of its so-called 'minority peoples' zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2010/1/Analysts-China-crackdown-fueling-attacks/index.html A police crackdown meant to quell militants in China's rugged frontier of Xinjiang has failed to prevent a surge of attacks, and analysts say Beijing's tactics may actually be encouraging more violence among the region's usually moderate Muslims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2008/1/Another-attack-in-Western-China/index.html Just four days into the Beijing Olympics, there's been another attack near the western city of Kashgar. Chinese authorities have warned of threats from Muslim separatists in the region. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2007/1/Chinas-way-of-hiding-shameJane-Macartney-in-Beijing-/index.html An old Chinese saying goes: “A man has face, a tree has bark.” Face - honour and prestige - is a visceral issue in China. Without it one is undeserving of respect. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2005/1/Uprising-from-the-ashes-of-history/index.html Travellers in today's China are often surprised to discover that the country has a sizeable Muslim population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1996/1/Hypocrisy-human-rights-and-the-Beijing-games/index.html The Beijing Olympic games, which began on August 8, are shaping up to be a perfect reflection of our times — taking place against a backdrop of human rights abuses, terrorism scares and under a blanket of chemical smog. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1989/1/Revolt-and-repression-as-the-Games-begin/index.html David Whitehouse examines the increased crackdown, and protest, in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics and how it reveals signs of China's yawning class divide. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1986/1/Maos-ghost/index.html The spirit of the chairman haunts the Beijing Olympics zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1985/1/Backlash-Over-Chinese-Handling-of-Muslim-Minority/index.html Experts Wonder if China's Crackdown on Muslim Minority is Fueling Violent Sentiment zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1984/1/World-leaders-welcomed-to-Beijing-Silence-on-human-rights-and-terrorist-threats/index.html Hu Jintao greets 80 international political figures. Press and TV do not mention the threat of attacks, but residents are afraid to leave their homes. The local population is absent from celebrations. Dissidents, protestant pastor, bishops under surveillance. Jacques Rogge gives his “blessing” to Beijing’s “good” air zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1983/1/The-oil-profits-flow-out-of-Kashgar/index.html A slightly-delayed posting. I've been out in Kashgar, where the Chinese government says 16 policemen were killed on Monday by jihadists bent on disturbing the Olympic games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1982/1/Chinas-Muslim-dilemma-in-The-New-Frontier/index.html Across much of China, strangers upon being introduced will ask each other, "Where is your ancestral home?" But in the far northwestern province of Xinjiang, they ask, "Are you Han Chinese?" zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1981/1/Chinas-forgotten-people-/index.html This week's terror attack in China has brought an intense barrage of publicity to the Uighurs. Amy Reger writes that one violent act does not represent more than 10 million people zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1976/1/In-Chinas-Far-West-Violence-Is-Just-/index.html When Dang Dongming completed a military tour in this remote corner of western China, he did an increasingly common thing. He stayed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1973/1/The-Fate-of-Chinas-Minorities/index.html Disdained by the Chinese majority and harassed by the government, Beijing uses its ethnic minorities to portray itself as a seemingly tolerant and multiethnic nation. Now the identity of China's minorities is threatened by modernization, commerce and pop culture. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1972/1/Gwynne-Dyer-Chinas-failed-colonial-policy-means-greater-Olympics-risk-/index.html Safety is our top concern," said China's Vice-President Xi Jinping in late July, pointing to the deployment of 100,000 troops around Beijing and the surface-to-air missile batteries that protect the main stadiums as proof of the regime's determination to ensure that no terrorist attack would disrupt the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1968/1/Swifter-higher-weaker-/index.html Behind the sporting glitz, anxieties about minorities and the economy zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1959/1/Lambs-to-the-Slaughter-What-is-the-East-Turkistan-Islamic-Movement-and-is-it-really-a-Terrorist-Threat-at-the-Olympics-/index.html Today’s news carried yet one more item about alleged Uyghur terrorism in China. According to Chinese sources, two Uyghur men, aged 28 and 33 respectively, drove a truck into a group of Chinese border guards during their morning marching exercises at a border post outside the city of Kashgar. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1955/1/Calling-Chinas-Human-Rights-Bluff/index.html Every aspect of life under totalitarian governments is political, from sports to culture to business. President Bush and other world leaders attending the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics this week should stop pretending otherwise, especially to the Chinese people. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1950/1/Has-China-got-a-terrorist-problem/index.html The Uighur attack in the northwest was shocking but not a precursor to a bigger outrageRosemary Righter. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1949/1/How-big-is-the-Xinjiang-threat/index.html China has for months been warning that Xinjiang terrorists were planning attacks during the Olympics - fears that now appear well-founded. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1943/1/Uighurs-and-Chinas-Xinjiang-Region-/index.html The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about 20 million people from thirteen major ethnic groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1941/1/The-World-Under-Fire-/index.html In the past ten days, bombs have ripped people apart in high profile, bloody locations like Baghdad and India, killed more in relatively safe locations like Kunming and Istanbul and scared others in Spain. The world is on fire and Beijing is about to party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1937/1/Beijing-Revives-Maos-Peoples-Warfare-to-Ensure-Trouble-Free-Olympics/index.html Hardly anybody still believes that the Beijing Olympics will have the same kind of globalizing and liberalizing effect on Chinese politics that the 1988 Seoul Olympics had on the democratic development of South Korea. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1927/1/Much-suffering-in-store-for-Uighurs/index.html After years of repression by the Chinese government, with forced interracial marriages, mass arrests, a threatened way of life, occasional killings and population displacements, China’s Uighur group, which mostly lives in Xinjiang Province, has every right to seek an end to oppression as well as help from the international community. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1923/1/Abusing-the-Olympic-spirit/index.html On August 8, 2008, the Beijing Olympics will commence. The recent controversy about the Olympic torch relay is an indication of things to come. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1919/1/Chinas-Capitalist-Development-and-Chinas-Rise-in-the-World-Imperialist-System/index.html This is the second in a series of articles about major transformations taking place in the world imperialist system. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1912/1/Chinas-Unreality-TV-/index.html China has gone to extraordinary lengths to spruce up its image before next month's Olympics: shuttering factories to reduce air pollution, mopping up algae in sailing waters, harassing critics and threatening journalists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1908/1/Taking-No-Chances/index.html With less than three weeks to go before the Olympic Games begin, questions are already being raised on how China is going to handle political protests during the Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1907/1/In-Central-Asia-Muslims-are-trapped-in-a-new-Cold-War/index.html In a little-noticed news story last week, US lawmakers strongly condemned what they called China's brutal pre-Olympic crackdown in the far northwest Xinjiang region, which is populated by the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim, Turkic ethnic group. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1906/1/-The-Chinese-are-at-it-again/index.html It seems that no outrage is too much for the Chinese, who have flouted every human rights convention possible before the beginning of the Genocide Olympics. I'm blogging this from my vacation spot on Washington state's Olympic peninsula -- a paradise of a spot. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1902/1/How-global-events-can-affect-the-Muslim-vote/index.html As the date for the vote of confidence government nears and the possibility of a premature general election looms large, a question often debated is the attitude of the Indian Muslims to the Indo-US nuclear deal. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1897/1/The-Evolution-of-Espionage-Beijings-Red-Spider-Web/index.html The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War had a profound impact not only on how security and intelligence professionals viewed the world of espionage but also on the motivations of the players and the targets of their espionage activities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1896/1/Beijing-Revives-Maos-Peoples-Warfare-to-Ensure-Trouble-Free-Olympics/index.html Hardly anybody still believes that the Beijing Olympics will have the same kind of globalizing and liberalizing effect on Chinese politics that the 1988 Seoul Olympics had on the democratic development of South Korea. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1893/1/Beijing-has-hijacked-terrorism/index.html A day after Radio Free Asia announced the execution of two Uighur “terrorist” suspects in Xinjiang, the People’s Daily newspaper wrote that “These incidents [riots in Tibet and unrest in Xinjiang] show … that the Beijing Olympics is facing a terrorist threat unsurpassed in Olympic history,” adding that as a result Chinese authorities had “built the most strict prevention and control system in Olympic history, adopting a series of security measures rarely seen.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1887/1/Inside-China-Games-warned-of-terrorist-threats/index.html Beijing has been put on red alert with the countdown to the Olympics quickening. As we report on these pages, some 100,000 troops and police will mount an unprecedented security operation, backed by a volunteer force of over half a million. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1890/1/Chinese-Security-Interests-in-Central-Asia-/index.html The sudden change in the geopolitical configuration in and around Central Asia caused by the collapse of the USSR came as a considerable surprise to China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1880/1/Free-This-Detainee/index.html There's someone I'd like to introduce to President Bush. Also to Chief Justice John Roberts and Sen. John McCain. His name is Huzaifa Parhat, and that get-together might be tricky to arrange. Parhat is also known as ISN (Internment Serial Number) 320 at Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1879/1/Dont-Trust-Me-on-Guantanamo-Read-This-Ann-Woolner-/index.html Because of the close, ideologically divided vote, you may give slim credit to last month's 5-4 Supreme Court decision slamming the U.S. handling of suspected enemy combatants. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1878/1/Analysis-Controlling-Tibet-/index.html The eruption of riots in Tibet in March reflected an increasingly complicated political situation there, involving both internal and external factors. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1872/1/Uighur-detainees-faced-Chinese-torture-methods-at-Gitmo/index.html A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has released declassified portions of a June 20 decision that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur detained at Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1861/1/PLAs-rapid-reaction-capability-in-Tibet/index.html The eruption of riots in Tibet in March reflected an increasingly complicated political situation there, involving both internal and external factors. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1859/1/Enemies-within/index.html This August, during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, there will almost certainly be a section of the vast parade devoted to celebrating the ‘55 ethnic minorities’ and their separate cultures in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1856/1/Silk-Road-Nostalgia/index.html There we were on holiday in China, starving and trying to order dinner - except that no one in that spot spoke Mandarin. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1847/1/Beijing-government-to-provincial-ethnic-groups-Support-the-Olympic-Games-or-else-/index.html In a dispatch that has been picked up by news outlets in Asia and Europe, Reuters has reported that, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a vast territory in northwestern China, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1846/1/Xinjiang-Chinas-new-Olympics-PR-disaster/index.html The PR disaster for China in Tibet, whose effect seems to be ebbing, has swelled again with news that (according to Reuters) “Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August’s Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1837/1/Ethnic-Minority-Elites-in-Chinas-Party-State-Leadership-An-Empirical-Assessment/index.html Recent uprisings across Tibetan regions of China as well as purported terror plots planned by Uighur separatists seeking independence for Xinjiang have highlighted the challenges that the Chinese Communist Party faces in governing a Han-dominant but multiethnic China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1836/1/Want-access-Go-easy-on-China/index.html  In 2004, a manuscript on China's Xinjiang region somehow fell into the hands of unknown Chinese. The book was quickly translated into Chinese - complete with the editor's marginalia - and copies were soon making the rounds of government offices in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1834/1/Chinas-Still-Wild-West/index.html It isn't only Tibetans who have risen up against Chinese rule, but also Turkic Muslim Uighurs in China's far western province of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1828/1/TOM-WATKINS-Chinas-minority-quotproblemquot-is-a-world-problem/index.html With the recent earthquake and uprising in Tibet, China seems chiseled into the consciousness of most Americans. Yet, few in the West realize there are 55 nationality groups of people that China officially recognizes as distinct minority groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1822/1/Q--A-The-Olympic-Torch-in-Xinjiang-and-Tibet/index.html Today under heavy security, the Olympic torch relay proceeded through the largely Muslim western province of Xinjiang. Yesterday Olympic organizers announced that the relay’s Tibetan leg, originally scheduled for three days starting tomorrow, had been cut back to Saturday only and would travel only to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1817/1/Chinas-Geopolitic-Imperatives-and-its-Current-Economic-Position-/index.html No matter where in the world I am, in South Africa, in Europe, in La Jolla, there's one question I get asked over and over, "What about China?" And small wonder. The increasing impact of China in the last generation is just staggering and seemingly accelerating every day. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1788/1/Spotlight-on-China-darkness-in-Tibet/index.html China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest uprising in decades this spring. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1782/1/China-to-keep-grip-on-society-as-challenges-loom/index.html The Chinese government's burst of openness in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake was not a signal that the Communist Party is relaxing its grip on a rapidly changing society -- far from it. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1777/1/When-the-East-sees-red-Russian-gas-goes-west/index.html China is the driver of global commodity flows, as well as prices. But the Central Kingdom has been slow to understand that it is the horse which pulls the cart; the whip hand belongs to the coachman. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1775/1/From-Tiananmen-to-the-Sichuan-Quake-A-Profile-of-Wen-Jiabao/index.html The well-coordinated, massive relief and propaganda efforts organized by the central government are called by some international observers the most pronounced phenomenon emerging from China's recent natural devastations zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1774/1/Sichuan-Quake-Reveals-Gross-Failings-in-the-System/index.html Beijing’s quick response to the Sichuan earthquake, including allowing foreign experts to take part in the rescue effort, has earned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership relatively high marks for openness—and for its apparent readiness to live up to the “putting people first” credo. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1762/1/Why-Chinas-next-earthquake-might-be-political-/index.html Whether it has been those of nature, man-made political disasters, or a combination of both, no other civilized society has suffered more down through the centuries than the ancient Chinese polity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1754/1/Terrorism-and-the-Olympics-/index.html The reports of terror plots emanating this year from this Muslim region in the far west of China might seem fanciful: A foiled plot to blow up a plane; a cache of TNT to bomb the Summer Olympics; even a “violent terrorist gang” that planned to kidnap Olympic athletes. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1748/1/Mani-and-Manichaeism-in-Sassanid-Iran/index.html Manichaeism, presumably an offshoot of Zoroastrianism, was not only an inspiration for various heretical movements in Christianity but also dominated the religious life of Central and Eastern Asia for centuries. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1741/1/While-India-sleeps-Chinese-threat-grows/index.html New Delhi's portrayal of the humiliating defeat at the hands of Chinese in 1962 as 'betrayal' and 'surprise' is untrue. The pacifist Indian leadership that was crying hoarse from rooftops for friendship at any cost remained blind to Communist China's repeated claims on Tibet and large part of Indian territories. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1737/1/For-Talks-to-Succeed-China-Must-Admit-to-a-Tibet-Problem-/index.html China’s hard-line policy towards Tibet creates more problems than it solves. Beijing’s recent crackdown on Tibetan protesters has attracted condemnation from around the world, but did nothing to address the underlying problems in Tibet itself. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1733/1/Jamie-F-Metzl-Chinas-Perfect-Storm-/index.html A perfect storm is brewing that could threaten China's relations with the world. Although some China bashers in the West and nationalists in China may be rejoicing, the potential deterioration of China's international relations serves nobody's interest and threatens to undermine global peace and security. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1732/1/Chinas-glasnost-/index.html In the aftermath of the great Sichuan earthquake, we've seen a hopeful glimpse of China's future: a more open and self-confident nation, and maybe - just maybe - the birth of grass-roots politics here. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1729/1/China-is-in-a-year-of-exposure-facing-ultimate-tests/index.html The year 2008 has loomed without equal on China's horizon ever since the day in 2001 that it won the chance to host the Olympics Games and showcase its national transformation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1726/1/No-more-appeasement-West-must-push-China-to-democracy/index.html The West made a strategic error in adopting different approaches to the Soviet Union and communist China. Ronald Reagan identified the Soviet Union as an evil empire and accelerated the arms race with the Star Wars program, thus bogging down the Soviet Union's fragile economy, which led to its eventual defeat. At that time, China was still played as the "China card" to reinforce US strength against the "evil empire". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1725/1/A-Communist-Made-Disaster/index.html China's Communist Party has been receiving wide praise in the wake of Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan province. The 7.9 tremble may have killed as many as 50,000. There are an estimated 26,000 more Chinese still buried in the rubble. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1724/1/Chinas-Holistic-Censorship-Regime/index.html After the violence in Tibet began on March 14, it became very difficult within China to obtain outside information, even as there was a flood of uninformative content reiterating distilled talking points from the government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1723/1/US-China-Relations-in-the-Era-of-Globalization/index.html John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Opening Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1722/1/Chinas-Other-Forgotten-People/index.html Last week, the Olympics flame finally reached its destination: China, which is to host this year's version of the Summer Games. The flame's global journey provided numerous occasions for opponents of the Chinese regime to vent their anger and frustration. The focus of the protests was Tibet, an autonomous region in the Himalayas, long regarded as the last bastion of Buddhism. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1721/1/For-Talks-to-Succeed-China-Must-Admit-to-a-Tibet-Problem/index.html China’s hard-line policy towards Tibet creates more problems than it solves. Beijing’s recent crackdown on Tibetan protesters has attracted condemnation from around the world, but did nothing to address the underlying problems in Tibet itself. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1714/1/Broken-Rings/index.html Liu Qi, the former mayor of Beijing, stands at a modern podium in ancient Olympia before a crowd of international dignitaries, 1,000 armed police officers, a marching band and the eyes of the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1712/1/Tibet-Only-the-Tip-of-The-Iceberg/index.html Given the endless attention in the past few issues to China’s human rights abuses as the summer Olympics in Beijing approach, I thought this photograph found in a German archive could spark further discussion about possible parallels between China today and Nazi Germany. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1707/1/Broken-Promises/index.html As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush didn't offer too many opinions on foreign policy. He could not name the leader of Pakistan, and his entire global experience consisted of a few trips south of the border and to Europe and Israel. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1702/1/Fanning-the-flames/index.html In its trek across the six continents, the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch has been engulfed by a series of political and ideological battles and subjected to criticism (and occasionally capture) from journalists, human-rights groups, Free Tibet advocates, and other parties dissatisfied with the Chinese government’s human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1701/1/Torch-Song-Olympic-Relay-Strikes-Varied-Chords/index.html Was China's Olympic-torch relay around the world a miserable failure or a surprising success? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1694/1/Pakistani-Article-Says-Europe-US-Supporting-Uprising-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Text of commentary by Retired Colonel Ghulam Sarwar: "Warning of Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan With Regard to Xinjiang" published by Pakistani newspaper Ausaf on 5 May zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1688/1/Beijing-Embraces-Classical-Fascism/index.html In 2002, I speculated that China may be something we have never seen before: a mature fascist state. Recent events there, especially the mass rage in response to Western criticism, seem to confirm that theory. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1687/1/Chinas-Fall-From-Grace-No-Surprise/index.html The Current Discussion: In his recent PostGlobal blog post, "The Ugly Chinese," commentator John Pomfret says the world's perception of China isn't as rosy as it used to be. Do you see China as a threat? Why? Why not? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1685/1/Chinas-next-generation-nationalists/index.html They're educated, richer and more aggressive toward the West. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1675/1/The-Ugly-Chinese/index.html Move over ugly American, make room for the ugly Chinese. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1673/1/The-Impact-of-Pakistan-China-defense-ties-on-the-War-on-Terrorism/index.html In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, both China and Pakistan expressed their support for the U.S. But they did so differently and with varying motives and reasons. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1666/1/Chinas-Troubled-Olympics/index.html China finds itself in a diplomatically and politically uncomfortable situation yet again with the Tibet unrest and needs to come out with a solution to its problems at least before the Beijing Olympics, but considering its political directions, that is most unlikely to happen. At the moment all solutions of the China-Tibet problem, can only be temporary. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1662/1/The-Right-Way-to-Pressure-Beijing-/index.html Human rights groups are rightly outraged about China’s abysmal record. But it is foolhardy to treat a rising superpower like a tin-pot dictatorship. Sometimes, a little pragmatism goes a long way. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1661/1/Beijing-Intensifies-quotPeoples-Warquot-Against-Splittism-as-Nationalism-Rears-its-Head/index.html While Beijing started last weekend to rein in nationalistic outbursts against Western media and governments, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has upped the ante in its “people’s war” against separatists who are allegedly in cahoots with “anti-China elements overseas” to undermine Chinese rule and disrupt the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1646/1/In-Chinas-Wild-West/index.html "Silk road gem and jade shop," the sign proudly states. Centrally located just down the street from the main mosque in Khotan, a dusty oasis town located in the vast Taklamakan Desert in China's far southwest, the shop is a focal point for the Muslim Uighurs who make up the majority of the local population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1645/1/Tibets-Territory-Claim-Reaches-Well-Into-China/index.html If Tibet were granted autonomy or independence, as thousands of protesters have demanded during the recent Olympic torch relays through Paris, London, and San Francisco, China's Communist regime could face an existential threat, according to a range of experts on the region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1643/1/The-Other-Tibet-/index.html "Silk Road Gem and Jade Shop" the sign proudly reads. Centrally located just down the street from the main mosque in Khotan, a dusty oasis town in the vast Taklamakan desert in China's far southwest, the shop is a focal point for the Muslim Uighurs who make up the majority of the local population. But though it is mid-morning, its gates are secured with heavy steel padlocks. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1641/1/The-Olympics-Have-Enough-Problems-/index.html Back a couple of millenniums ago, the Greeks used to call a truce whenever the athletes were competing at Ancient Olympia. Nowadays we have a modern version of the Olympic truce. It is called the Beijing shutdown. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1640/1/Chinese-Claims-of-Olympic-Terrorist-Plots-Seem-Suspect/index.html Although the Western media has become preoccupied with the protests against Beijing's repression in Tibet, Chinese policymakers perceive a comparably serious threat from another minority: the Muslim Uighurs. Concerns about separatist agitation among the Uighurs have had a considerable impact on Chinese foreign policy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1635/1/The-Conqueror-of-Chinas-Wild-West/index.html On April 11, dozens of top Chinese military officers, government and party officials gathered in the frontier city of Urumqi to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Wang Zhen, the man who conquered China’s vast western region for the Communists and in doing so created a unique institution.  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1634/1/After-Tibet-its-Xinjiang/index.html Like the Tibetans, Uighurs too constitute a form of predominant ethnic group in Xinjiang and aspire political independence while holding profound umbrage vis-a-vis Chinese control. And the time is ideal to draw global attention. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1633/1/-China-is-Pakistans-most-steadfast-partner/index.html Pakistan's long-standing ties with China are set to receive a symbolic but important boost this week, when the Olympic torch arrives in the country on the last leg of its eventual journey to Beijing for this year's Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1619/1/Chinas-Ethnic-Tension-Isnt-Limited-to-Tibet/index.html This outpost of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is home to nearly 20,000 ethnic Han Chinese, transplanted from China's eastern heartland to this arid border territory -- which is home to a large Turkic Muslim population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1579/1/The-Great-Firewall-of-China/index.html There's a certain kind of news story out of China that never fails to make headlines in the West: government censors attempting to water down a Western film or book with seemingly little cause. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1571/1/China-Tibet-Olympics-Tension-bad-timing-and-competing-versions-of-what-it-means/index.html No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't supposed to be like this - the run-up to the opening of the Olympic games that China will host for the first time ever, the world's biggest sporting event that is due to open - cough, cough, choke - in the polluted Chinese capital in early August. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1570/1/Xinjiangs-melting-glaciers/index.html China's far northwest occupies a precarious position on the map of potential climate catastrophe. Josh Chin and Zachary Slobig report from Xinjiang, where water security is a key question for residents. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1568/1/Dont-boycott-Chinas-shame/index.html NO, don't. Let's not boycott the Beijing Olympics. Letting them go ahead is hurting China much, much more. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1562/1/Chinas-India-example-/index.html Tibet, Xinjiang May Not Be Assimilated Like Inner Mongolia And Manchuria zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1540/1/Terrible-Tepid-Terrorism/index.html China revealed that two Islamic terrorists who attempted to set off a gasoline bomb in a domestic airliner flight last month, were travelling on Pakistani passports, and one was from Pakistan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1539/1/Tibet-and-the-other-national-threats-to-the-Chinese-regime/index.html As this is written, the Beijing Communist authorities are in the process of using brute force to stem a tide of frustration and violence from a downtrodden Tibetan population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1538/1/Xinjiang-Chinas-other-Tibet/index.html While reports of unrest in Tibet frequently grab headlines around the world, little attention is given to what several human rights groups have dubbed China's "other Tibet". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1531/1/Why-Beijing-Needs-the-Dalai-Lama/index.html Despite the intensity of the confrontation between the Chinese authorities and Tibetan protestors, Beijing and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, appear to be subtly acknowledging the extent to which they need each other. But you have to read past the pungent rhetoric to see that. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1528/1/The-Uyghurs-and-the-Olympics-Will-Global-Focus-on-Beijing-Bring-Attention-to-the-Plight-of-the-Uyghurs-/index.html Taking advantage of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S., the Chinese government since 2001 has stepped up its repression of Uyghur dissent both inside and outside China’s borders, justifying its actions by branding Uyghur nationalists as terrorists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1527/1/Chinas-True-Face---The-Host-of-the-Olympics-or-the-Thug-of-Tibet/index.html As what the Dalai Lama has called "cultural genocide" goes on in Tibet, it is wholly unacceptable that Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee, refuses to take a stand against the Beijing government's current crackdown on Tibetan protesters. In fact, this is completely at odds with the "spirit of the Olympics." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1525/1/Xinjiang-Chinas-Other-Tibet-/index.html A land with an ancient culture that is remarkably different from its current masters. A desolate country, but with a striking beauty unseen anywhere else in this world. A place filled with spirituality, where people still make a living from the land and retain their ancient customs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1524/1/Retaining-the-Loyalty-of-Xinjiangs-Hans/index.html In the boomtown of Korla, two hours south of Urumqi, groups of Han Chinese immigrants huddle outside the train station ticket office each night, waiting for the morning to return home, or travel elsewhere in Xinjiang looking for work. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1519/1/Chinese-model-of-integration-fails/index.html The embarrassment caused by the violence in Tibet, spilling over to Tibetan enclaves in mainland China, and global protests against China’s crackdown on protesters could not have come at a more inopportune time for the Chinese authorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1518/1/China-Faces-Crisis-Over-Tibetan-Unrest-/index.html China is witnessing the worst bout of political turmoil it has seen since the student-led democracy movement of 1989. The recurrence of unrest in Tibet poses major challenges to Beijing and raises serious questions about the political system in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1517/1/Tibetan-protests-fed-by-years-of-frustration-/index.html Chinese leaders have blamed "splittists" led by the exiled Dalai Lama for spurring violent protests in Tibet and orchestrating a public relations sneak attack on the Communist Party as it gears up to host the Olympics Games this summer. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1516/1/Years-of-grievances-erupt-into-rage/index.html Tibetans are weary of what they say is 'cultural genocide' and second-class status. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1515/1/God-and-Man-in-China/index.html The violent protests in Tibet that began last week and have since spread across (and beyond) China are frequently depicted as a secessionist threat to Beijing. But the regime's deeper problem in the current crisis is neither ethnic nor territorial. It's religious. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1512/1/The-wrong-side-of-history/index.html China is discovering that imperial rule is a tricky process, particularly when you claim to be anti-imperialist zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1523/1/Walkers-World-China-in-Tibet/index.html One sobering aspect of the tragedy of Tibet is to consider a list of the places in the world where abuses of human rights are most common. Darfur in Sudan, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Myanmar (or Burma), Uzbekistan and Tibet would come high on most peoples' lists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1510/1/China-Its-Not-Just-Tibet/index.html China's overriding goal this year has been to showcase itself as a stable, unified country proudly ready to host this summer's 2008 Olympics. And that aim encompassed not just those who live in the well-off eastern coastal provinces that are overwhelmingly Chinese, but all of China's 1.3 billion people, including millions of Tibetans and Muslims who reside in the mainland's vast western regions. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1509/1/Spotlight-on-grievance/index.html Events in Tibet expose China's achilles heel: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic difference. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1494/1/The-new-coloniallist/index.html There is no exaggerating China's hunger for commodities. The country accounts for about a fifth of the world's population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world's pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its aluminium. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1493/1/Chinas-Olympics-and-the-3-evils/index.html China's efforts to encash the forthcoming Olympics  games at Beijing  appear to have been facing severe hurdles even before the Games begin on August 8. However, major infrastructural efforts helped showcase several cities and venues. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1492/1/CHINESE-MIGRANTS-FACE-DISCRIMINATION-IN-KYRGYZSTAN/index.html The number of Chinese migrants traveling to Kyrgyzstan, mainly to Bishkek, the capital city, has been increasing over the past decade. China is one of the major exporters of goods to Kyrgyzstan, ranging from mass consumer products and home electronics to luxury commodities. In recent years China also turned into a major exporter of labor migrants to Kyrgyzstan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1470/1/Dispatches-From-Chinas-Wild-West---5--Chinas-Nessie/index.html We were heading north, toward the Russian border. The flat, brown steppe we were driving through is considered to be a part of Siberia, ecologically speaking. The area is inhabited mainly by Tuvans, who are famous among world-music fans for their throat-singing prowess and who, according to legend, are the descendents of Genghis Khan, who used the place as a staging ground for his westward assault. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1469/1/Dispatches-From-Chinas-Wild-West---4--The-New-Silk-Road/index.html Walking into the Bian Jiang Hotel in Urumqi was a bit like stepping into a post-Soviet version of the Star Wars cantina scene. Every variety of Russian and Central Asian hustler was there: dark-skinned, mustached men in leather jackets; blond Russian women in track pants and midriff-baring T-shirts; Uzbek women with black eyes and flowing, multicolored dresses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1468/1/Dispatches-From-Chinas-Wild-West---3-Chinas-Oil-Boom/index.html It was morning when I arrived in Korla, the capital of Xinjiang's oil boom, and the sky was dark, the sun obscured by a thick cloud of dust from the adjacent Taklamakan Desert. Many people on the street wore masks against the dust—the Chinese favored surgical-style versions, while many Uighur women wore delicate white cotton masks with lace trim. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1467/1/Dispatches-From-Chinas-Wild-West---2-Ramadan-in-China/index.html It was the first day of Ramadan, and although Ali, my translator, was fasting, I wasn't. He was a good sport about finding me a place to eat lunch, though. He took me to a couple of Muslim-owned restaurants, but both turned out to be closed for the holiday. I proposed Chinese food instead, but Ali refused even to consider the possibility. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1465/1/Dispatches-From-Chinas-Wild-West---1-China-Through-the-Back-Door/index.html Bundled into my sleeping bag against the high-altitude chill, unable to sleep, I peered through the bus window. But there was only darkness. I was on a 24-hour bus ride through the desolate borderlands between Kyrgyzstan and China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1458/1/Factfile-Chinas-one-child-policy/index.html China's population went out of control after Mao Zedong's instruction to the nation in the 1950s and 1960s to go and have as many children as possible in order to bury the United States in a human wave. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1454/1/Opinion-Trampling-on-the-Olympics-Wounded-Ideals/index.html The ideals on which the modern Olympics were built have been betrayed, says DW's Nick Amies. Turning a blind eye to China's human rights abuses ahead of the Beijing Games is just adding insult to injury. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1452/1/Kosovo-independence-brings-new-uncertainties-in-Asia/index.html The unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo, with the support of the US and a number of European powers, has produced destabilising shockwaves beyond the Balkans. There is a widespread recognition in Asia and elsewhere that carving out a nation-state by recognising a small group of people on ethnic or religious lines could apply to any country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1425/1/Defense-Focus-Chinas-weapons----Part-4/index.html The continuing weakness of China's armaments industry has profound implications for China's diplomacy, grand strategy and choice of conflicts it would be prepared to undertake for many years to come. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1424/1/Defense-Focus-Chinas-weapons----Part-3/index.html The weapons that China wants from Russia -- and that Moscow won't sell Beijing -- provide a remarkable insight into the current transitional state of the Chinese arms industry. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1422/1/Release-quotOlympic-prisonersquot-and-free-Chinese-media-Olympic-Watch-requests/index.html With six months to go until the Beijing 2008 Olympics, Olympic Watch is calling for an end to human rights abuses in China. Specifically calling for the release of "Olympic prisoners" Hu Jia, Yang Chunlin and Ye Guozhu, it also reminds the International Olympic Committee that full media freedom must be guaranteed in China as promised in 2001. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1421/1/Analysis-NATO-keeps-eye-on-China/index.html NATO is closely watching China's military expansion, with an attitude of rising concern and wariness. Led by the United States, NATO members are starting to view China as a possible emerging common adversary. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1417/1/Defense-Focus-Chinas-weapons/part1.html The Chinese domestic arms industry may one day be one of the biggest and most important in the world, but it is very far from that yet. Western experts believe China will need major outside suppliers for large amounts of equipment for years to come. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1412/1/Chinese-Curbs-Leave-Uyghur-Youth-in-Crisis/index.html Chinese curbs on the traditional Muslim culture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are creating a social crisis among Uyghur youth, according to experts and Uyghurs at home and overseas. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1404/1/Hu-Jintao-Tightens-Grip-Over-Shanghai-Faction/index.html Since dumping former Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu in late 2006, President Hu Jintao has tightened his control over the East China metropolis—as well as the so-called Shanghai Faction in the tangled politics within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1403/1/Keeping-an-Eye-on-Chinas-Security/index.html Since Imperial times, Chinese governments have relied on neighbors to inform on each other as a way to preserve social control. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1400/1/Let-us-not-lose-faith-in-democracy/index.html President George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda” has run into the Middle Eastern sand. The president himself will be the last to recognise this. Speaking in the United Arab Emirates on January 13, he hailed a “great new era” of “the advance of freedom”. “My friends,” he proclaimed to the assembled sheikhs, “a future of liberty stands before you.” Then Mr Bush flew on to Egypt and lavished praise on President Hosni Mubarak, who threw into jail the last man to run against him for the presidency. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1387/1/Chinas-Genocide-Olympics-/index.html The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1385/1/Two-faces-of-China/index.html The Olympics will move China to the front of world attention, much as its rapid economic rise has already allowed it to surpass the United States in generating global economic growth. But the China the world will see this summer is one that is jampacked with contradictions. I visited China for the first time in December, and the two faces of this country jumped out at me every turn. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1384/1/Chinas-Human-Rights-No-Gold-Medal/index.html Recently, criticism of China's human rights situation has escalated. The European Parliament criticized the Chinese Government for not keeping its promise to improve human rights and freedom of the press. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1382/1/Interesting-times/index.html Yesterday, Richard Lea looked at China's exploding publishing scene. Today, he hears about the impact of rapid social change on writers, and their books zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1381/1/Chinas-leaders-change-tactics-toward-religion/index.html There was Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese Communist Party, warmly shaking hands at a party-sponsored New Year's tea party with one of the country's main Christian leaders. To make sure the message got through to China's 68 million party faithful, a large photograph of the moment was splashed across the front page of the official party newspaper, People's Daily. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1380/1/One-World-One-Dream/index.html Chinese misdirection on human rights reaches fever peak as the 2008 Olympic Games approach. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1373/1/Investing-in-China-Fools-gold/index.html Americans tend to disregard history. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, famously declared bluntly, "History is bunk", while US novelist Gore Vidal calls the US "the United States of Amnesia". Usually, this disregard has few consequences, but sometimes not. That may be so with investing in China, where history suggests profits will be far belowcexpectations, possibly making those investments fool's gold. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1368/1/United-Nations---A-Human-Rights-Farce/index.html Americans are coming to realize the United Nations is not the organization we once trusted, even revered. The UN betrays the idealism expressed in the preamble to its charter, forged over sixty years ago in San Francisco, which states, "We the peoples of the United Nations determined…to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small…" Two recent events demonstrate why the American people and their elected officials should be scrutinizing our country's subsidization of the United Nations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1363/1/-Why-should-we-trust-China--/index.html Bhaskar Roy, who retired recently as a senior government official with decades of national and international experience, is an expert on international relations and Indian strategic interests. In this exclusive column for Sify.com, he points out various instances where China has betrayed India's confidence and suggests methods for the government to deal with a country that plays underhand politics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1361/1/In-Bhutan-China-and-India-collide/index.html As the world's newest democracy, the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan has won praise around the world. Its recent transformation - from a century of monarchy to a multi-party democracy - has all the trappings of cinema: an enlightened king steps aside for his dashing, Oxford-educated son who represents a future of peace and prosperity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1358/1/Illiberal-capitalism-Russia-and-China-chart-their-own-course/index.html During the cold war it was natural to lump Russia and China together. They were the two great communist powers – the leading ideological adversaries of the west. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1351/1/China-Flexes-Its-Muscles/index.html The U.S. Navy said it was "befuddled" by Beijing's last-minute November denial of a long-arranged port call for the Kitty Hawk carrier group in Hong Kong. This turndown was on top of China's refusal to provide shelter for two U.S. minesweepers seeking refuge from a storm, and its rejection of a routine visit for a frigate, the Reuben James. The Air Force also received a "no" for a regular C-17 flight to resupply the American consulate in Hong Kong. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1350/1/Democracy-denied/index.html TO DIM the impact of what it had to know would be unpopular news, China's government waited until the Saturday evening of the New Year's weekend to reveal its long-awaited reaction to Hong Kong's petition for a democratic government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1344/1/A-critical-year-for-China-/index.html  If you want to understand how important — how unusually important — the coming year is to China, ask a historian. When was the last time that China was as confident, prosperous and engaged with the world as it is likely to be at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1334/1/Chinas-Asymmetrical-Strategy----The-battle-for-access-in-the-Western-Pacific-/index.html THE IMPRESSIVE CONVENTIONAL military strength post-industrial states have procured in the past half-century has helped to determine the shape and nature of modern warfare. In a geostrategic environment where conflict continues to persist between advanced militaries and their substandard adversaries--either rogue states or terror cells--the latter have been forced to develop asymmetric ways of challenging the superior with the inferior. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1333/1/Partners-in-Genocide---A-comprehensive-guide-to-Chinas-role-in-Darfur/index.html Two weeks ago, Britain introduced a toughly worded Presidential Statement at the U.N. Security Council, demanding that Khartoum's National Islamic Front regime turn over two génocidaires to the International Criminal Court. The first, Ahmed Haroun, who, in a grotesque bit of irony, now serves as Sudan's minister of humanitarian affairs, is accused of having directly orchestrated many of the vicious crimes documented by the U.N. and independent human rights organizations in Darfur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1325/1/Clipping-the-dragons-wings/index.html  AMERICANS may well be delighted by new figures that show China's GDP is 40% smaller than previously thought. Has the devious Beijing government been massaging the numbers, as communist planners are wont to do? Hardly. China's GDP in yuan terms remains unchanged. What has happened is that the World Bank has changed the calculations it uses to make international comparisons of the size of economies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1324/1/China-Vietnam-churn-diplomatic-waters/index.html Just as Hanoi prepared to enjoy the rewards of a diplomatic charm offensive, culminating in taking up for the first time a non-permanent seat on the United Na