http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:49:44 -0700 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4459/1/A-Host-of-Mummies-a-Forest-of-Secrets/index.html In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4455/1/Revised-Social-Order-Regulation-in-Xinjiang-Places-New-Emphasis-on-State-Security-/index.html The Xinjiang government has revised a regulation on social order to place new emphasis on combating threats to state security. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4448/1/Chinese-Media-Warns-of-More-Unrest-in-Xinjiang-But-Analysts-Not-Convinced/index.html China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency warned this week of a third summer of ethnic clashes in the Muslim Uyghur-dominated autonomous region of Xinjiang. But scholars say that recent deployments of thousands of Chinese police could quell a potential uprising. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4429/1/Analyst-rips-Uighur-deportation/index.html Last-minute changes to a sub-decree regulating procedures for screening asylum seekers paved the way for the government’s forced deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers, violating their rights under local and international law, an Australian academic has asserted. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4413/1/Demolishing-Kashgars-History/index.html The second-story rooms of the centuries-old mud-brick houses were cantilevered atop log beams and nearly touched each other across an alleyway paved with hexagonal stones. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4410/1/-Chinas-Crises-in-Tibet-and-Xinjiang/index.html While those in charge of propaganda work to intoxicate the country with the image of a “harmonious society” at the behest of party leader Hu Jintao, frequent uprisings in China’s western ethnic provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang have, to the embarrassment of officials, laid bare the lie. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4404/1/What-are-they-afraid-of/index.html “The forces pulling China toward integration and openness are more powerful today than ever before,” said President Bill Clinton in 1999. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4402/1/China-at-risk-of-a-home-grown-financial-crisis/index.html The pathology of the western financial crisis is all too familiar: misallocation of capital fuelled by cheap credit and lax regulation, a proliferation of investment vehicles with limited credit assessment, and systemic biases predicated on ever-rising real estate prices. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4401/1/Rift-Widens-as-US-and-China-Seek-Opposing-Goals-/index.html When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4395/1/US-vs-China-a-dangerous-phase-has-begun/index.html China is a formidable adversary whose ultimate strength is not its military hardware but its economic prowess, and whose diplomatic weapon is not saber rattling but great patience. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4394/1/The-year-China-showed-its-claws/index.html In recent months Beijing has been cracking down at home and lashing out abroad. China watchers are perplexed about the origins and implications of the new assertiveness. Many believe a threshold has been breached and that China is going to become more difficult to deal with. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4392/1/China-using-Iran-to-make-cold-war-against-US/index.html With Iranians marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Republic with another round of protests, it is time for China to align its Iran policy with the long-term interests of the Iranian people. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4391/1/Exclusive-Interview-with-Filmmaker-Jeff-Daniels-The-10-Conditions-of-Love/index.html Jeff Daniels is a 31-year-old teacher, filmmaker, and student of history. He is the writer, director and cinematographer of the documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, which is the subject of this interview. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4384/1/When-China-Rules-the-World-Sorry-Not-Likely/index.html There's lots of loose talk these days about how China will some day "rule the world." Some people who look forward to a "post-American world" seem to assume that China will either emerge as a great power equal to the United States or take on sole outright leadership of the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4383/1/By-fits-and-starts/index.html As China and America square off in the latest round of recriminations, how bad are relations really? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4382/1/Is-It-Safe-To-Do-Business-In-ChinaIs-It-Safe-To-Do-Business-In-China/index.html Here's a technique to resist Beijing pressure. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4381/1/Fear-factor-drives-China-partnership/index.html Official reaction to a Uighur film highlights how anxious we are not to offend Beijing zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4375/1/China-Alarmed-by-Threat-to-Security-From-Cyberattacks-/index.html Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided — against official policy — to check his private e-mail messages. Among the new arrivals was an electronic holiday greeting card that purported to be from a state defense office. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4370/1/Cyber-Warriors/index.html When will China emerge as a military threat to the U.S.? In most respects the answer is: not anytime soon—China doesn’t even contemplate a time it might challenge America directly. But one significant threat already exists: cyberwar. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4366/1/China-sees-an-array-of-Internet-threats-and-moves-to-tighten-control/index.html Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided — against official policy — to check his private e-mail. Among the new arrivals was an electronic holiday greeting card, purportedly from a state defense office. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4354/1/China-sabre-rattling-risks-starting-trade-war/index.html It is almost two months now since the Copenhagen climate change conference but one incident from the meeting is still causing a buzz in Beijing. It was the moment in one of the tense final sessions when, according to witness accounts, a Chinese official started to jab his finger at Barack Obama, the US president. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4326/1/We-the-People-and-the-China-Threat/index.html The We the People pamphlet is a principle driven plan for the Republican Party.  Chairman McCotter has used his position as leader of the Republican House Policy Committee to address the threat communist China poses to liberty around the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4307/1/10-China-Myths-for-the-New-Decade/index.html China's economic growth has been accompanied by growing misinformation about its economy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, China is not leading the world out of a recession, is no longer moving toward a market economy, is not America's banker, and may never surpass the U.S. Heritage Foundation Asia expert Derek Scissors debunks 10 leading myths about the Chinese economy and replaces them with the accurate picture necessary to guide American policy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4305/1/South-east-Asia-A-wider-radius/index.html When Laos won its bid to host last month’s South-East Asian Games, China offered to help the tiny nation by building a gleaming new venue on the outskirts of the capital Vientiane. The facility included a “natatorium” for swimming and a stadium for soccer. But for the Laotian government, such generosity would not come cheaply. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4301/1/Silence-on-Tibetan-talks-is-golden/index.html On Tuesday, Beijing reopened the thorny and controversial talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan god-king zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4290/1/Chinese-cyber-snooping--disruption/index.html  In recent months, there has been considerable focus----rightly so--- on Chinese cyber snooping and disruption. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4280/1/Chinas-Economy-Something-Is-Not-Right-in-Beijing/index.html Regardless of the data reported by the PRC, the Chinese economy is headed for a rough patch, this time domestic in origin. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4267/1/Iron-fist-wrapped-in-the-hand-that-gives/index.html The Hu Jintao administration has significantly tightened policy over Tibet in an apparent attempt to ensure the proverbial "long reign and perennial stability" of Chinese Communist Party's in the restive region. Hardline cadres are being appointed to run the region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4252/1/Clinton-Calls-for-Web-Access-Criticizes-China/index.html Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said unrestricted access to the Internet will be a top foreign-policy priority and criticized China and other nations for restricting access. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4251/1/-Chinese-media-hit-at-White-Houses-Google/index.html China has signalled a change of approach to the Google crisis, with state media describing the company’s threat to pull out of the country as a political conspiracy by the US government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4232/1/2009---The-Uyghur-Human-Rights-Year-in-Review/index.html 2009 will be remembered as a watershed year for the Uyghur people of East Turkestan. The event that defined not only the year, but also the foreseeable future for millions of Uyghurs was the serious unrest in the regional capital of Urumchi. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4229/1/Ignoring-Christian-Oppression-in-China/index.html Just like President Obama’s first state visit to the People’s Republic of China, the mid-November 2009 visit of a delegation of international church leaders to the state-approved church in China began in Shanghai and ended in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4214/1/The-Chinese-Puzzle-Box/index.html Canada faces a dilemma when it comes to relations with China: how do you balance human rights and economics? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4190/1/Chinas-Conventional-Cruise-and-Ballistic-Missile-Force-Modernization-and-Deployment/index.html The People's Republic of China (PRC) 60th National Day, which took place on October 1, 2009, was lauded by the Chinese-media for its display of the military's ‘precision striking capabilities.’ zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4189/1/China-Builds-Closer-Ties-to-Afghanistan-through-Wakhan-Corridor/index.html As NATO forces push forward toward stabilizing Afghanistan, backed by the commitment of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops, there has been a growing call by the United States for other countries to shoulder a greater share of the security burden. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4188/1/US-Sold-its-Birthright-by-Ignoring-China-Human-Rights-Abuses-for-Economic-Gain-Report/index.html he US has missed a chance to stand up for human rights by instead focusing on financial gains in communist China, a new report has said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4180/1/Deported-Uighurs-Highlight-Chinas-Ties-to-Cambodia-/index.html Two days after Cambodia repatriated 20 Uighur asylum-seekers fleeing China, the two countries signed trade agreements worth more than $1 billion, bringing significant investment, loans and grants to the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4178/1/Waking-Dragon/index.html Historians may someday debate whether the financial crisis that began a year ago is most notable for how much damage it did to the United States, or how little it inflicted on the world’s major rising power, China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4173/1/There-may-be-trouble-ahead/index.html JUST as 2010 dawns, global storm clouds are gathering; warnings of future wars over energy supplies, Russia threatening a new arms race, al-Qaeda still active and very nearly successful in a new attack on US-bound aircraft, Britain and China at loggerheads... Richard Bath assesses the world's hotspots and the prospects for the coming year zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4168/1/Chinas-century-on-the-march-/index.html Verdant mountains cannot stop water flowing; eastward the water keeps on going. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4166/1/The-Hong-Kong-Model-How-China-Can-Democratize--Hold-Together/index.html China may be fast moving toward global superpower status, with rates of industrialization and wealth-creation nearly unprecedented in human history. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4161/1/As-US-fights-the-Taliban-China-gets-down-to-business-in-Afghanistan/index.html Behind an electrified fence, blast-resistant sandbags and 53 National Police outposts, the Afghan surge is well under way. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4158/1/World-Watch-Obamas-China-policy-earns-mixed-reviews/index.html It's New Year's Eve. Around the world, it's a time for taking stock in one's life. In Washington, we've elevated stock-taking to an art form. But here, it's taking stock in politics, policy and other people's lives. Continuing in that spirit, here's a review of where things stand with China policy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4137/1/China-resets-terms-of-engagement-in-Central-Asia/index.html Nursultan Nazarbayev has a way of drawing lines in the sand. The president of Kazakhstan recently told global oil and metal majors that new laws would allow only those foreign investors that cooperate with his industrialization program to tap his nation's mineral resources. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4134/1/In-testing-times-Chinas-star-rises/index.html As a year fraught with economic turmoil and loaded with politically sensitive anniversaries comes to an end, Chinese leaders can breathe a sigh of relief and congratulate themselves for deftly navigating the nation through perilous times. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4126/1/Five-political-risks-to-watch-in-China/index.html China has so far weathered the global economic downturn with its growth rate staying robust and no sign the government faces any majorchallenge to its rule. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4116/1/PM-Harper-Canada-and-China-No-Love-Lost/index.html There is no love lost, but there needs not be love to continue a pragmatic economic relationship that will grow or not on the basis of mutual interest but not on shared political/social values. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4094/1/Denise-Chong-Never-bow-before-the-bully/index.html As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in the air en route to Beijing last week, I waited out a connection in an airport lounge. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4085/1/Cooperation-Gets-Shanghaied/index.html The recent rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) -- a mutual security assembly comprised of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan -- has been met with skepticism in the West. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4083/1/Exploring-Chinas-Wild-West/index.html There is a smell of goats, fresh bread and melons. A cacophony of bleating animals rises, mixed with conversations full of hard-edged Turkic gutturals. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4081/1/Can-China-Turn-Cotton-Green/index.html Producing 'natural' cotton clothing is a huge and filthy global business that, Chinese-commissioned research shows, will be extremely difficult to clean up. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4052/1/Another-Clue-to-How-China-Managed-Obamas-Visit/index.html In case President Obama is curious, some students who went to his town hall meeting in Shanghai last month wonder how he gets along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, given their bruising battle for the presidency. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4033/1/How-strong-is-US-commitment-to-Taiwan/index.html Taiwan officials were paying close attention to the mid-November visit to China of U.S. President Barack Obama, looking for any signs that Obama was applying his mantra of “change” to Sino-U.S. relations or to U.S. policy toward Taiwan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4030/1/News-from-Tartary/index.html To talk to Uygur leader Rebiya Kadeer has been a personal ambition ever since I visited China’s Xinjiang Province in 1999. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4022/1/Double-Agency/index.html The British edition of “Typhoon” came out one year ago. I was living in China then and ordered a copy from London. It never arrived, though the Royal Mail’s tracking system showed that it had made its way as far as a Beijing shipping depot. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4015/1/THE-GREAT-CHINESE-MEDIA-OFFENSIVE/index.html China’s image in the world hasn’t been the best lately. Now, Beijing is pumping billions of dollars into a global media campaign in an effort to reverse that trend. Chinese television may be coming soon to a TV near you. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4008/1/The-Other-Tibet/index.html The Uygurs, Muslim people of China’s resource-rich far west, are becoming strangers in their own land as Han Chinese pour in. Like the Tibetans, who face similar pressures, some Uygurs see a chance for a better life, but others protest the disintegration of their culture, even at the risk of death. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/4007/1/Cyberwarfare-The-Issue-China-Wont-Touch/index.html U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to China has a dirty little secret: cyberwarfare. It is an issue Beijing refuses to acknowledge exists, but it has the potential to torpedo military relations between the two nations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3973/1/Can-President-Obama-Pull-a-Cairo-Speech-Moment-in-China/index.html President Barack Obama's maiden trip to China will be his first face-to-face opportunity to shape U.S.-China relations – the bilateral relationship he has labeled "as important as any in the world." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3971/1/Media-Report-Xinjiang-and-Tehran-Uprisings-Differently-Chinese-regime-succeeds-in-suppressing-information/index.html The June uprising in Iran and the July Uyghur uprising in Xinjiang, western China, featured a number of striking similarities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3969/1/President-Obama-Must-Press-China-on-Web-Censorship/index.html In China, Google is forced to censor its search engine, Facebook and Twitter are blocked, U.S. news agencies are barred from selling their services freely, and foreign investment in the media industry is closely watched. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3955/1/Scientist-Speaks-Out/index.html A prominent Chinese physicist takes aim at Beijing’s Uyghur policies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3948/1/Is-China-a-global-partner-or-strategic-rival-of-US/index.html China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century... an emerging power that the dominant global power of the time is trying to downplay. Then it was Great Britain vs. the United States. Now it is the United States vs. China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3947/1/RIGHTS-CHINA--Give-Uyghurs-a-Chance-to-Live-in-Peace/index.html Catherine Makino interviews REBIYA KADEER, president of the World Uyghur Congress zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3945/1/China-Crisis-class-struggle-and-the-harmonious-society/index.html The global economic crisis had a severe effect on China. However, there has been much talk recently about its impressive recovery and the return of its economy to growth. This article analyses the situation in China, and argues that the economic crisis catalysed a wave of struggle which has continued into the present, regardless of the supposed health of the economy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3944/1/FACTBOX-Five-political-risks-to-watch-in-China/index.html China has so far weathered the global economic downturn with its growth rate staying robust and no sign the government faces any major challenge to its rule. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3914/1/US-China-militaries-talk-more-Does-that-make-world-safer/index.html China's second-ranking PLA officer is visiting the US this week as the two powers try to put relations on a more cordial footing. But mutual suspicion is likely to remain strong as China expands its naval presence in the Pacific. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3909/1/Europe-could-pay-the-price-for-improved-US-China-ties-/index.html Since taking office President Obama has worked hard to improve Washington's relationship with Beijing. While the US and China grow closer together, Europe could find itself relegated to the sidelines. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3905/1/Chinas-economic-diplomacy-/index.html Trade offers are bundled with support for authoritarian rulers, arms sales and debt waivers, writes ND Batra. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3898/1/NEWS-ANALYSIS-Uyghurs-Call-for-Right-of-Residence-in-USA-with-Help-from-US-Lawyers/index.html Guantanamo's indigenous Chinese Uyghurs not safe on Palau Islands in the north Pacific zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3897/1/Chinas-culture-offensive-hits-a-wall/index.html This year's Frankfurt Book Fair may have been more of an embarrassment than prestige for its guest of honor - China - but the country's cultural mandarins still believe that the future of cultural ideas belongs to the Middle Kingdom and that the global financial crisis will play a role in helping them achieve that. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3862/1/Walkers-World-Chinas-new-enemies/index.html Something deeply alarming is under way on the roof of the world. It is not simply the Obama administration's difficult Afghan dilemma that makes the vast Himalayan massif the world's most pivotal region. Suddenly, as when one loose rock triggers a mountain landslide, a handful of small developments are combining to produce a highly volatile situation with potentially disastrous consequences. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3845/1/A-Tourist-in-a-Troubled-Area-/index.html Earlier this week, courts in Xinjiang sentenced six men to death and a seventh to life imprisonment  for murder, arson and robbery during riots that swept the region in early July, leaving nearly 200 persons dead. Paul Mozur, a Taiwan-based correspondent, traveled through the area shortly after the riots.  This is the first of a three-part report. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3829/1/Dividing-the-Uyghur-from-the-Han-Chinese-Troubling-Aspects-of-Chinese-Propaganda-/index.html The article by Liu Xiaonan,The Seven Lies of Kadeer, published on September 25, 2009 on Open Forum is a fascinating glimpse into the dangers of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3828/1/Chinas-Urumqi-is-stable-but-security-remains-tight-/index.html I just returned from China's far-west Xinjiang province. In July, a deadly riot broke out in Urumqi, officially killing at least 197 people. Some local residents I spoke with contend that the number is closer to 800. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3827/1/China-Must-Improve-Its-Human-Rights-Record-/index.html China’s policy towards its ethnic nationalities is unsustainable and inhumane. The international community must exert more pressure on China to abide by its own constitution and respect the human rights of its different ethnic groups. Great power always comes with great responsibility. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3825/1/Al-Qaeda-urges-Uighur-jihad-in-China-So-what/index.html Al Qaeda preacher, Abu Yahya al-Libi, urges Uighurs to launch holy war against China. Is anyone listening? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3821/1/Obamas-China-Trip-Forging-Middle-Class-Ties/index.html Last April, in a press conference capping his first one hundred days in office, President Obama remarked that the "'ship of state' is an ocean liner, not a speedboat," and that even a small shift in direction could have far-reaching consequences even a decade or two later. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3820/1/Chinas-60th-What-the-World-is-Saying/index.html The People's Republic of China is 60 years old. While the country is celebrating, what is the rest of the world thinking? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3819/1/Decision-time-for-China--/index.html Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war and the horrors of Japanese occupation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3815/1/Emerging-Threats---Chinas-60th-anniversary-raises-questions-/index.html Sixty years ago when Mao Zedong ushered the birth of the People's Republic of China under Communist rule, the Great Helmsman's message was: "The Chinese people have stood up." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3803/1/Marching-to-world-domination-Why-the-West-should-be-worried-about-China/index.html China today celebrated its wealth and rising might with a show of goose-stepping troops, gaudy floats and nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing, 60 years after Mao Zedong proclaimed its embrace of communism. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3775/1/Uyghur-American-lawyer-discusses-the-plight-of-the-Uyghurs-in-Guantanamo-Bay/index.html Uyghur-American lawyer and activist Nury A. Turkel discusses the plight of the Uyghurs from Xinjiang Province to Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3769/1/Authorities-Impose-Restrictions-on-Lawyers-Defending-Xinjiang-Suspects-Amid-Official-Announcement-on-Arranging-Legal-Defense-/index.html In the aftermath of the forceful police suppression of a demonstration held by Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang on July 5 and outbreaks of violence starting that day, authorities in Xinjiang and Beijing have taken steps to restrict lawyers' activities defending people accused of committing crimes on July 5 zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3768/1/Xinjiang-Authorities-Continue-Detentions-Announce-Arrests-Connected-to-July-5-Incident-/index.html Following the forceful police suppression of a demonstration held by Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang on July 5 and outbreaks of violence starting that day, Xinjiang authorities have reported on continuing detentions and arrests in connection to events on July 5. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3745/1/The-PRC-60th-Anniversary-Parade-Equipment-on-Display-Not-Military-Capabilities/index.html The Chinese press has announced that 52 types of “new weapon systems” will be on display in 30 vehicle and 12 air formations during the October 1st military parade portion of the 60th anniversary celebration of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PLA Daily, September 17). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3744/1/CCP-17th-Central-Committee-Plenum-Skips-Xi-Jinping-and-Inner-Party-Democracy/index.html The biggest piece of news to have come out of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 17th Central Committee is what that did not happen: the induction of Vice-President Xi Jinping into the policy-setting Central Military Commission (CMC). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3728/1/Court-Allows-Return-Of-Guantanamo-Prisoners-To-Torture/index.html As rumors swirl, suggesting that a number of the remaining 13 Uighur prisoners in Guantánamo may soon be relocating to the tiny Pacific island state of Palau, a court case relating to nine of these men threatens to hurl a number of other prisoners in Guantánamo, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3709/1/-Books-Identity--Masculinity-In-A-Uyghur-Community-/index.html A Uighur man shows up late for a night out with friends. His buddies, who have already begun drinking, "fine" him three shots of liquor for his tardiness. Understandably careless by the third shot, the man spills a small amount of liquor onto the table. "That's another fine," his friends cry. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3680/1/Rediscovering-Central-Asia/index.html It was once the “land of a thousand cities” and home to some of the world’s most renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers. Today it is seen mostly as a harsh backwater. To imagine Central Asia’s future, we must journey into its remarkable ­past. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3670/1/Chinas-shadow-sector-power-in-pieces/index.html A month-long tour of China reveals great swathes of the country under the effective sway of local gangs and thugs ruling according to private interest. After the country’s imminent sixtieth-birthday party this should be Hu Jintao’s top priority, says Kerry Brown. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3668/1/Cultural-Demolition-in-Kashgar-A-Liberation-Special-Report/index.html From the standpoint of the newspaper addict, Paris is a glorious city. Although it leans further toward the (French) center of the political spectrum than Jean-Paul Sartre's leftist daily of choice L'Humanite, the journal quotidienne of choice for this reader is Liberation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3654/1/CHINA-SHAPING-ITS-SOUL-IN-TIBET-AND-XINJIANG-/index.html China’s treatment of Tibet and the Uighurs, (of the Xinjiang Autonomous Province), has followed the pattern of an exchange of allegations and counter-charges. China simply expects to prevail by having an infinitely greater capacity to resonate by the logic of its rapidly expanding economic, political and military power. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3642/1/Chinese-Australian-ties-face-testing-time/index.html Australia’s diplomatic ties with China, its biggest trading partner, are facing their most serious challenge in years amid accusations of industrial espionage and support for an alleged terrorist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3638/1/Beijing-strains-to-hear-the-voice-of-the-people/index.html The words “people power” and China are not generally associated. We are accustomed to thinking of China as an authoritarian state in which the will of the people is crushed or, at best, silenced by lightning economic growth and improving living standards. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3625/1/Why-India-is-Clueless-about-China/index.html A prosperous, militarily strong China cannot but be a threat to its neighbours, especially if there are no constraints on the exercise of Chinese power, notes Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3597/1/A-harmonious-and-stable-crackdown/index.html China celebrates a milestone with a new round of repression zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3571/1/UN-Committee-Fears-Alteration-of-Demographics-in-Minority-Areas-of-China/index.html The seventy-fifth session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) while expressing concern on the future demographic composition in minority areas due to the continuing influx of Chinese settlers has recommended to the Chinese authorities that “any policies or incentives offered that may result in a substantial alteration of the demographic composition of autonomous minority areas be reviewed.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3540/1/A-consummate-politician/index.html Shortly after her two sons were put in prison by the Chinese Government in 2006, Rebiya Kadeer declared her steely commitment to Uighur human rights on Radio Free Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3530/1/Can-Beijing-Bring-Order-to-Its-Restive-Provinces-/index.html Recent violence in China's western provinces shows that the state's dual policy of migration and development has failed. A political solution for Xinjiang and Tibet, however, could be closer than Beijing may think. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3529/1/Confronting-China-/index.html How could ancient China’s worldview pose a threat to modern India? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3527/1/China-finds-scapegoat-for-bloody-unrest-/index.html In remote western China last month, the lid blew on decades of distrust. Two days of rioting in Urumqi, the provincial capital of Xinjiang region, left nearly 200 people dead and more than 1600 injured. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3525/1/Uyghur-Women-Step-Forward-/index.html Women take on a bigger role after deadly riots and hundreds of detentions in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3522/1/Shock-of-the-new/index.html A PARADOX has befallen China. Its vindication from the global financial crisis is mocked by internal political tensions, frustrations with resource suppliers such as Australia, worry about keeping its economic growth and paranoia over ethnicity and human rights. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3521/1/Asian-democracy-and-Australia/index.html The summer of 1985 was a beautiful time in Beijing. Not because of the sweltering heat, or the relentless pollution, or the ubiquitous cigarette smoke, often mixed with garlic, which you inhaled at seemingly every meeting. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3519/1/Speak-truth-to-power/index.html CHINA today is Janus-faced. In the contradiction of the two faces of China sits the present Australian crisis in our relations with the Middle Kingdom. China today is a contradiction in statehood. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3517/1/Libs-roll-over-for-Chinas-bullies/index.html JOHN Howard famously exploited the people smuggling issue in the 2001 election campaign by proclaiming: "We will decide who comes to this country." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3508/1/Mending-Chinese-fences/index.html Australia's relationship with China will survive its recent turbulence - with some nurturing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3505/1/Peace-Mission-2009-A-Military-Scenario-Beyond-Central-Asia-/index.html Most analyses of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership focus either on Russian arms sales to China or on the joint military exercises conducted by Moscow and Beijing under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which limits the scope of the analytical framework to a consideration of Central Asian scenarios. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3499/1/Pragmatism-will-rule-ties-with-China/index.html It may be eager to flex its political and economic clout, as it seeks acknowledgement as one of the world's most important powers. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3495/1/Australia-and-China-its-strictly-business/index.html WHAT a relief. China may not love us any more, but it still loves what we dig up, as demonstrated by oil giant PetroChina's signing of a $50 billion deal to buy liquefied natural gas from ExxonMobil's share of the Gorgon project off the coast of Western Australia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3490/1/Chinas-war-games-unnerve-neighbors/index.html  War games launched last week by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have alarmed China's neighbors and raised further questions about Beijing's military intentions. The games, dubbed "Stride-2009", are scheduled to stretch over the next two months. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3482/1/Speaking-out-for-the-Uighurs---Breathing-fire/index.html TENSE days followed last month’s ethnic violence in Urumqi, the capital of China’s western region of Xinjiang. Your reviewer had to dodge blockades and angry crowds of Han Chinese protesters to reach the neighbourhood in the south of the city where the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs live. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3476/1/Xinjiang--Chinas-Palestine-/index.html "If China continues its policies in Xinjiang, it will bring closer and closer a racial war like that between Israel and the Palestinians, a war with no resolution and no end." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3475/1/Uyghur-Diaspora-Faces-Government-Pressure-in-Kyrgyzstan/index.html On August 10, Kyrgyz authorities detained Dilmurat Akbarov, the leader of the Ittipak Uyghur society, and his deputy Jamaldin Nasyrov. These leaders had organized demonstrations calling for an independent investigation into last month's riots in Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3471/1/Uighurs-must-fight-for-rights-within-China/index.html It may turn out to be seven days that shook the world, or at least seven days that shook Chinese politics, perhaps permanently. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3470/1/China-basks-in-post-Olympic-glow/index.html A year ago this week, China was on its way to staging the most spectacular Summer Olympic Games in history, while piling up more gold medals, 51, than any other country. The rest of the world looked on in awe and envy as Beijing turned cynical predictions of Olympic embarrassment and disaster into a stunning international coming-out party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3459/1/Our-night-with-Rebiya-Kadeer-/index.html Our event last night at Cinema Nova with Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer didn't get the attention that her forthcoming apperance at the premiere of the documentary about the Uighur leader The 10 Conditions of Love at MIFF has received this week, nor was our website hacked by Chinese nationalists but it was still a very strange week at Readings. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3392/1/CHINA-STRONG-ENOUGH-TO-MANIPULATE-WESTERN-MEDIA-/index.html ‘Propaganda’ is a dirty word. It is associated with authoritarian regimes with no respect for human rights and is relied on by such governments to influence popular opinion in their favor. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3368/1/FREE-EAST-TURKESTAN/index.html The Uyghur people in East Turkestan are restless. Throughout history, Chinese emperors and warlords has repeatedly invaded their land, only to be pushed back. In the modern era, China took control in the late 19th century. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3354/1/No-challenge-to-communist-rulers-hegemony-is-too-trivial/index.html On Monday, July 6, as Xinhua news agency revised the official death toll from riots in far-western Xinjiang province from three to 156, I was looking for any moderate, rational and well-informed Chinese citizen to report their views on why Uighur and Han Chinese were tearing each other apart. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3343/1/Uyghur-commoners-against-the-new-enclosures-in-Xinjiang-China/index.html The latest popular riots in Xinjiang highlight not only the ongoing contradictions within current Chinese-style neoliberal capitalism but also the historically long-standing opposition among various minorities against an ethnically dominant state power in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3342/1/Uighurs-taken-by-police-do-not-return/index.html Uighur Turks continue to wait anxiously following the eruption of fierce clashes on July 5 in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3341/1/Chinas-media-controls-and-the-July-5-incident-in-Xinjiang/index.html China is experiencing mounting unrest virtually everywhere in the country zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3340/1/The-Xinjiang-Crisis-A-Test-for-Beijings-Carrot-and-Stick-Strategy-/index.html Calm has been superficially restored to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR), where an outbreak of ethnic violence on July 5 led to the death of more than 197 Han Chinese and Uighurs, according to an official count. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3323/1/If-Only-the-Uyghurs-had-Twitter/index.html More than 4,000 Uyghurs have been arrested by the Chinese government since July 5. Hundreds of civilians have been killed. Thousands have been injured. This violence follows the pattern of arbitrary detention, imprisonment, torture and execution that has enraged Westerners when it has occurred in places like Iran. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3317/1/The-Road-From-Xingjiang/index.html Beijing is busy releasing propaganda pictures of smiling Han Chinese leaving the hospital having just recovered from the Uighur riots. Smiling children, colorful flowers and pink-cheeked local officials feature prominently in the photos. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3302/1/Ethnic-Han-and-Uighurs-grow-further-apart/index.html As the Chinese government tries to control the situation in Xinjiang following riots there, critics say Beijing's policies are partly to blame for the outbreak of ethnic violence. Fighting between... zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3300/1/Cultural-Faultlines-in-China/index.html The ethnic uprising in Mainland China's far western provinces, has sent seismic political jolts to Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3298/1/Muslim-worlds-rage-missing-over-Uighurs-plight/index.html Where are the fatwas? The angry marches in front of embassies, the indignant speeches? Where are al-Qaeda's videos? In short, what does China have that Denmark did not? China has been actively discriminating against Muslims, and recently a number of them have been killed in violent street riots. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3296/1/The-crisis-where/index.html Over the past two weeks, deadly clashes in the Xinjiang province of western China have hit the headlines, highlighting the deep tension between the Uighurs - the Muslim, ethnic Turkic people native to the province - and the ethnic Chinese inhabitants who have settled there more recently. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3292/1/China-Enters-A-Period-Of-Eruptions-/index.html The rioting by Uighurs in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi in early July has put the spotlight back on China's handling of its ethnic minority regions. Coming just over a year after a similar outburst in Lhasa, the incident shows that hardline policies designed to suppress dissent have fostered bitter resentment that periodically erupts. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3289/1/Troubles-across-Turkestan/index.html THE plight of Turkey’s Kurdish minority has never been of compelling interest to ordinary Chinese people. But in the past few days internet forums in China have been clamouring their support for Kurdish separatists. As Chinese security forces reimpose order after a bloody spasm of ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, Turkey is finding itself in the line of fire. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3281/1/China-struggles-to-tame-its-Wild-West/index.html Until the rise of sea routes in the 15th century, China's remote Xinjiang province was best known for its network of trails that carried goods between Asia and Europe, which became known as the Silk Road. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3276/1/UIGHUR-DISCONTENT-/index.html It would be a mistake for the Chinese government to rely mainly upon massive arrests, bans upon demonstrations and curbs on the media to contain Uighur discontent in the Xinjiang province of Western China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3275/1/Chinas-police-state-crackdown-in-Xinjiang-creates-international-tensions/index.html The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of Xinjiang has created international tensions. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3274/1/Chinas-borderlands-the-need-to-rethink/index.html The explosions of unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang expose the failures of Chinese state policy. But they also offer no way forward for the country’s marginalised peoples. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3273/1/Return-of-the-repressed/index.html China’s harsh tactics in Xinjiang have only stoked Uighur rage. Joshua Kurlantzick on why Beijing can’t quit the iron fist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3264/1/The-minister-of-blame/index.html US citizen Rebiyer Kadeer started the recent street-fight in China's Xinjiang province, despite the fact that she was on the other side of the world, fast asleep. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3258/1/The-New-Great-Game/index.html For years it's been a closely held secret: The People's Republic of China is an empire desperately trying to make the world think it's a state. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3255/1/Self-Fulfilling-Prophecy/index.html The Uighurs aren't extremists--but the Chinese government may change that. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3215/1/Chinas-twin-troubles/index.html Unrest in Xinjiang and China's economic downturn seem unrelated – but the leadership's reactions have key similarities zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3213/1/Unrest-in-Xinjiang-Wheres-the-Muslim-outrage-/index.html Muslims around the world have largely remained silent about last week's deadly riots between Han Chinese and Uighurs. What makes this case of 'oppression' of Muslims different than others? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3212/1/The-Uighur-dilemma--/index.html My good friends Dana Rohrabacher and Newt Gingrich are arguing, albeit at long distance, over the guilt and potential fate of some of the prisoners still being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Rohrabacher believes the Uighur prisoners still at Guantánamo aren’t terrorists at all, while Newt is convinced they are just too dangerous to be released. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3209/1/ANALYSIS-Chinas-far-west-strife-reveals-a-country-in-flux/index.html The potential dark side of China's future was on show last week when crowds of Han Chinese, clutching clubs, axes and mobile phones, sought revenge after a rampage by minority Uighur Muslims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3208/1/The-root-cause-of-unrest-in-Muslim-China-/index.html Chinese developers have been using deception, deceit, and lies to raze Uyghur homes in Xinjiang for decades. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3206/1/Irreconcilable-forces-in-China/index.html The riots between the majority Han people and the Uighur minority in China’s far northwest are only the latest upsets in a region that has seen civilizations clashing as long as there have been civilizations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3201/1/QA-with-Uighur-spiritual-leader-Rebiya-Kadeer/index.html The Monitor spoke with the exiled mother figure for China's Uighurs about the deadly riots, independence, and China's use of the label of 'terrorist.' zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3185/1/The-New-Land/index.html China’s ethnic moment is here with a vengeance. This was nervously endorsed by President Hu Jintao’s decision to cut short the G-8 summit to return home. The ongoing unrest in Xinjiang will bring with it a familiar sense of déjà vu. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3184/1/Anurag-Viswanath-Managing-diversity---China-gets-a-wake-up-call-/index.html China’s extreme north-west province, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), propelled into the global spotlight this week with rioting and violence between the Uighurs (Turkic- Muslims) and Han Chinese ethnic groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3182/1/Chinas-leaders-reap-instability/index.html  Bloody riots which broke out this week in the far west of China are another ominous warning which the ruling Communist Party should heed if it is to maintain the country's cherished stability. Although quickly dismissed by officials as the work of foreign provocateurs, this violence highlights the moral void at the heart of the government's policies for future development and can't be squelched permanently with another crackdown. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3181/1/A-rude-lesson-on-unity-and-stability-for-Muslims-and-Chinese-Government/index.html Decades of bad blood over inter-ethnic ties, official missteps and external influences boiled over into violence last Sunday in remote Xinjiang province in northwest China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3175/1/The-discovery-of-the-Uyghurs--/index.html The unrest in China’s western province of Xinjiang - known to the Uyghurs as East Turkestan - has focused the world’s attention on a comparatively neglected people. It is long overdue, says Henryk Szadziewski of the Uyghur Human Rights Project. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3173/1/Why-Urumqi-Has-Frightened-the-CCP-/index.html In all my years watching the Chinese Communist Party and its ever-growing list of victims, I don’t think I have seen a single incident more telling about the weaknesses of the mainstream media (and, by reflection, the immense value of the Epoch Times—and I’d say that even if they didn’t run my columns) than what happened in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, this week.  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3166/1/Washington-Abetting-Racism-in-China/index.html Racism, alas, is not a uniquely American or European phenomenon. I can personally attest to the fact that racism abounds in Asia. The Japanese have long discriminated against immigrants, the Koreans like to contend they are most homogeneous population on the planet, and Han Chinese have a thinly disguised disdain for minority groups who constitute the other 8% of Beijing's 1.3 billion constituents. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3145/1/Why-China-has-clenched-its-fist-in-Xinjiang/index.html Beijing's severe treatment of Uighurs – and Tibetans, too – may be an attempt to prevent a breakup similar to that of the Soviet Union. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3137/1/Washington-Abetting-Racism-in-China/index.html Racism, alas, is not a uniquely American or European phenomenon. I can personally attest to the fact that racism abounds in Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3082/1/Xinjiang-Authorities-Strengthen-Controls-Over-Religion-/index.html Local governments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) reported throughout early 2009 on measures to strengthen control over religious activity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3079/1/China-makes-a-choice-in-Iran-/index.html A movie recently released in China, The Empire of Silver by Guo Taiming, describes the cunningness, betrayals, fights, tribulations and passions accompanying Chinese traders' earnings and fortunes along the Silk Road. Their monumental mansions, still standing in modern Shanxi around the city of Pingyao, are a testament to the wealth they managed to accumulate. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3078/1/CCP-Campaign-for-a-New-Generation-of-quotRed-and-Expertquot-Officials-/index.html While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must have heaved a sigh of relief over the relatively uneventful 20th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown, central party authorities are adopting extra measures to defuse tension between local officials and the masses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3070/1/Tiananmen-Square-and-Two-Chinas/index.html June 4, 1989 marks the anniversary of the Chinese government's brutal crackdown on the largest protests for political reform since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Widely known as the Tiananmen Square massacre, the event remains a stain on Chinese history. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/3068/1/BOOKMANS-PERSPECTIVE-Dr-Ewart-Brown-Premier-of-BermudaNatural-Born-Leader/index.html With the exception of President Barack Obama, perhaps no political leader in the world today better exemplifies that more than Dr. Ewart F. Brown, Premier of Bermuda. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2986/1/The-civil-war-that-was-never-ours/index.html When was China’s Civil War? Some say from 1945 to 1949; others add the years 1927 to 1937 and still others claim it continued intermittently throughout World War II because most posit the war was between two Leninist-modeled parties, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2975/1/Human-Rights-Beyond-Ideology/index.html Twenty years ago, as Soviet communism was collapsing and new democracies were springing up everywhere, there were bright hopes for the spread of human rights. But while this year marks the anniversary of the Berlin Wall falling, yesterday was also the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre in China, a reminder of just how unyielding authoritarian governments can be. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2970/1/The-Presidents-Speech-in-Cairo-A-New-Beginning-/index.html Watch or read the President’s speech in Cairo on America’s relationship with Muslim communities around the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2969/1/KAZAKHSTAN-CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST-DEBATE-FLARES-IN-WASHINGTON-/index.html The government of Kazakhstan is paying an influential Washington think tank to write a series of reports and policy recommendations for the US and Kazakhstani governments concerning Astana’s upcoming role as chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2942/1/Invite-the-Guantanamo-Uygurs-Into-the-US/index.html In Washington, there is much huffing and puffing over whether the presence of Guantanamo detainees on U.S. soil -- whether in prison or free to roam -- represents a national security threat. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2941/1/The-Guantanamo-row/index.html Everyone wants a plan. But it is easier promised than done. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2934/1/Chinas-Military-and-Security-Relationship-with-Pakistan/index.html My name is Lisa Curtis. I am a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2930/1/War-and-Justice/index.html The gaps between U.S. practice and President Obama's aspirations for handling detainees zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2928/1/PRC-erodes-rights-abroad-forum/index.html One-time CCP official Ruan Ming, who went into exile in the 1980s, said US economists were more interested in profits than promoting human rights. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2927/1/Uyghurs-sold-out-in-the-US/index.html Republican leaders in the United States appear eager to hand President Barack Obama a political defeat and diminish his prestige and domestic and international clout - at the cost of the continued detention of 17 Uyghur prisoners at Guantanamo in Cuba. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2892/1/How-the-West-was-Won-Chinas-expansion-into-Central-Asia/index.html In the People’s Republic of China, the Great Western Development Drive has been promoted as a solution to the economic inequalities that exist between the eastern and western regions of the country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2885/1/Obamas-Counterterrorism-Reforms-What-Remains-to-be-Done/index.html In his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama took crucial steps to reform U.S. counterterrorism policies, repudiating several key elements of the Bush administration's abusive approach to fighting terrorism. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2876/1/Beijing-Learns-to-be-a-Superpower/index.html The year 2009 will go down in history as a watershed for the expansion of China’s global clout. The world financial crisis may have dealt the Chinese economy a blow, but it has hardly deterred the Chinese Communist Party leadership from aggressively projecting both hard and soft power. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2871/1/PLAs-Absolute-Loyalty-to-the-Party-in-Doubt/index.html China’s military forces crossed a watershed when the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) celebrated its 60th birthday by holding a parade of state-of-the-art hardware such as indigenously developed nuclear submarines. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2870/1/A-Manifesto-on-Freedom-Sets-Chinas-Persecution-Machinery-in-Motion/index.html Behind the west Beijing apartment building where Liu Xia keeps a fifth-floor flat, the police have built a guardhouse. Its purpose is not to protect Ms. Liu, who seeks no safeguarding. The house is for the guards who watch her. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2855/1/Deng-Undone-/index.html The global crisis has prompted a great deal of talk about China. Most of it, however, starts from a faulty premise: that the People’s Republic is still moving toward a market economy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2849/1/BOOKS-Hunting-Eichmann/index.html I found something hugely unsettling about Neal Bascomb's chilling, authoritative and timely book about the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the man about whom the political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term "banality of evil" in her 1963 book "Eichmann in Jerusalem." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2821/1/Revolt-stirs-among-Chinas-nuclear-ghosts/index.html Up to 190,000 may have died as a result of China’s weapons tests: now ailing survivors want compensation zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2820/1/Justice-for-the-Uighurs/index.html For the past seven years, 17 men have been held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees who the U.S. government acknowledges should never have been there. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2818/1/The-dragon-in-the-Hindu-Kush-Chinas-interests-in-Afghanistan/index.html It appears that China is forging closer ties with post-Taliban Afghanistan. Afghanistan, meanwhile, is also undoubtedly interested in Chinese investment as it seeks to diversify its international relations away from the West. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2814/1/Turkey-Trot-Military-Cooperation-between-Beijing-and-Ankara/index.html In the last week of March 2009, Ankara and Beijing may have taken another step toward upgrading their military cooperation. This has become evident during a visit from General Hasan Aksay, commander of the Turkish military academies, who spent three days in China, starting March 24. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2810/1/Obama-President-of-the-World/index.html Given Obama's performance on his recent trip, three developments were quite astounding. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2809/1/Tibet-will-only-be-free-when-all-of-China-is-free/index.html Last month saw the 50th anniversary of what Tibetan activists like to call Tibetan National Uprising Day, the day in 1959 when Tibetans in Lhasa revolted against Chinese Communist Party rule. The rebellion was crushed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2808/1/GEYER-Ancient-strategies-lead-growth/index.html In 1983, a long quarter-century ago, I made my first trip to China and found a country barely emerging from ancient days. Outside the major cities, I slept, rather comfortably actually, on bulky straw mattresses in many local hotels. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2767/1/Neo-Oasis-The-Xinjiang-Bingtuan-in-theTwenty-first-Century/index.html Military-agricultural colonies have long been a feature of Chinese frontier policy,but in the late twentieth century the bingtuan1underwent an unprecedentedtransformation of form, function and rhetorical justification that raises questionsregarding the contemporary bingtuan’s motives, mechanisms and role models. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2755/1/CCPLA-Tightening-the-CCPs-Rule-over-Law/index.html Beijing is beefing up its control apparatus to counter unprecedented challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration this year. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2736/1/A-US-China-G-2-Today-Its-Closer-to-a-G-0/index.html The G-20 convenes again this week, once more generating high hopes that progress can be made in addressing the economic crisis. Due to its size and diversity, the G-20 is an unwieldy body. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2727/1/Will-the-Chinese-Communist-Party-Survive-the-Crisis/index.html The financial crisis is challenging Beijing's ability to hold up its end of the deal with the country's elite, leading to a potential threat to the continued rule of the Chinese Communist Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2723/1/Interview-with-George-Clarke/index.html Continuing my series of interviews concerning “the war on terror” (or whatever it’s new name will be) and American detention policy therein, I bring you this interview with George Clarke, an attorney in Washington who represents four Guantanamo-detained clients, three of whom have been expressly “cleared for release,” although all continue to languish as prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2722/1/The-strange-tale-of-a-Chinese-emperors-French-prints-/index.html Of all the East-West encounters, few are as strange as the story at the heart of the Louvre show of 44 French 18th-century prints on view until May 18, under the title "The Chinese Emperor's Battles: When the Qianlong Emperor Sent His Requests for Prints to Louis XV." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2710/1/First-steps-in-Russian-democracy-/index.html Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the former Soviet Union. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2667/1/Mixed-Signals-from-11th-National-Peoples-Congress/index.html Premier Wen Jiabao has pulled out all the stops to reassure the National People’s Congress (China’s parliament)—and the world—that the Hu-Wen government’s revamped stimulus package can ensure an eight percent growth rate this year. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2660/1/Obama-Should-Be-Gutsier-on-Guantanamo/index.html The time has come for President Obama to be truly gutsy. A high-level delegation from the European Union met today with members of the Obama administration to discuss the future shuttering of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2657/1/Uighurs-China-s-forgotten-Muslims/index.html You have just three days to see iconic photographs of the Uighur people who are being systematically destroyed by the Chinese authorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2648/1/Hiking-Into-Chinese-History-/index.html PEOPLE do not usually think of outdoor activities when you mention Beijing. But the city is surrounded by a horseshoe of mountains, nearly a mile high, and fall is the perfect season to visit them. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2643/1/Chinese-Intellectuals-and-the-Problem-of-Xinjiang/index.html It is a common assumption that Chinese intellectuals, however critical of their government, its institutions, and its policies, are unreceptive to calls for greater self-government, much less independence, in China’s autonomous regions, most notably Tibet and Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2642/1/Hearing-Chinas-Ascent-Oil-and-Terror-/index.html Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Hearing on “China’s Military and Security Activities Abroad.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2625/1/Inside-the-Ring/index.html A Chinese democracy activist who signed the recent human rights manifesto called Charter 08 said in a speech that the conditions for democratic political reform in the communist state are the best since the ill-fated Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2622/1/Chinas-Views-on-NATO-Expansion-A-Secondary-National-Interest/index.html The eastward expansion of membership and enlargement of missions undertaken by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over the past decade push a lot of sensitive buttons in China’s national security policy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2621/1/Chinas-Palestine-Policy/index.html The geopolitics of China's rise and its implications for the Arab world and wider Middle East is a topic for serious debate. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2617/1/EDITORIALChinas-woes-/index.html Corruption, unemployment and declining exports top China's woes today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2601/1/James-Millward-On-quotFree-the-Uighursquot/index.html I never thought I’d see “Free the Uighurs” on the editorial pages of major U.S. newspapers, but there it was last Thursday in the Washington Post and Monday in the Los Angeles Times. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2600/1/Free-the-Uighurs/index.html It's time to untie the legal knot keeping 17 Chinese Muslim dissidents at Guantanamo. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2599/1/Balancing-human-rights-and-national-interests/index.html Many chickens returned to roost over the past week at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, fowl born of promises and high-flown rhetoric during the campaign season that always looked unlikely to survive first contact with the enemy — that is, reality. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2587/1/Trillions-of-reasons-why-priorities-beat-rights/index.html Barack Obama said last month that Americans should get used to "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come". Then he sent Hillary Clinton to Beijing to see if the Chinese could get used to it. She may be the US Secretary of State, but Clinton was in China in the past few days as a high-powered bond saleswoman. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2583/1/The-Chinese-Armed-Forces-and-Non-Traditional-Missions-A-Growing-Tool-of-Statecraft/index.html Over the past decade, western militaries and governments have struggled with growing pressures to engage in and balance their responsibilities in “nation-building,” “peacekeeping operations” and other various non-combat tasks. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2582/1/Beijing-Launches-Diplomatic-Blitz-to-Steal-Obamas-Thunder/index.html Beijing has unleashed an unprecedented diplomatic blitz while the new Obama administration battles doubts about its stimulus packages to salvage the struggling American economy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2556/1/How-the-United-States-Can-Help-Improve-Human-Rights-in-China-/index.html The relationship between the United States and China may well be the most important bilateral relationship in the world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2551/1/How-to-Evaluate-the-New-Administrations-Counter-Terrorism-Policies/index.html Less than a month into President Obama's term, many of the Bush Administration's worst counterterrorism policies have been left behind. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2550/1/Idea-of-the-Day-Elevate-Attention-to-Abuses-Directed-at-Uighurs/index.html The U.S. government should assertively discourage the Chinese government’s efforts to justify sweeping human rights abuses against Uighurs in the name of “counterterrorism.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2544/1/Closing-Guantanamo/index.html On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order calling for the closure of the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2542/1/An-historic-opportunity-for-political-change-in-China/index.html From a perspective of world political systems, liberty is better than confinement, light is superior to darkness, democracy is superior to despotic rule. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2535/1/Attacks-on-the-Press-in-2008-Introduction/index.html In 2008, the numbers of journalists killed and jailed both dropped for the first time since the war on terror was launched in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2533/1/Beijing-sets-out-on-chaos-offensive/index.html Even as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership pulls out all the stops to resuscitate the economy, it is grappling with the even more daunting task of maintaining social stability. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2520/1/Out-of-the-Closet-quotchinas-Other-Tibetquot/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) Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2494/1/The-UN-Will-Critique-Chinas-Human-Rights-Record-/index.html New hopes were expressed at a hearing, Jan. 27, on Capitol Hill, among several Congress members and China experts that the Obama administration will be more forthcoming than the Bush administration in holding China accountable for its unacceptable human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2490/1/Obama-to-test-US-China-ties-analysts/index.html The United States and China are set for new tensions under Barack Obama amid extra pressure caused by the economic crisis, but will likely work together to iron out their differences, analysts say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2485/1/USAChina-Amnesty-International-Testimony-Human-Rights-in-China-And-UNs-Universal-Periodic-Review/index.html Presented by T. Kumar Advocacy Director Asia & Pacific Amnesty International USA on January 27, 2009 zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2477/1/Retarding-democracy---Chinas-strategic-priority/index.html China is “well on the way to defeating the global forces of democracy” as it strives to shape Southeast Asia and the wider world to reflect its own authoritarian priorities and imperatives, argues China analyst Edward Friedman. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2472/1/Obama-takes-on-China-US-ties/index.html Al Jazeera Beijing correspondent Melissa Chan looks at what changes - or otherwise - Barack Obama will bring to US-China relations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2461/1/Obama-Inauguration-Inspires-China/index.html How do people in China see the new U.S. administration? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2451/1/Chinese-State-Media-Goes-Global-A-Great-Leap-Outward-for-Chinese-Soft-Power/index.html Even as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is projecting hard power across the four corners of the earth, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is mapping out a multi-pronged strategy to publicize globally the apparent viability of the “China model.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2450/1/Recent-Trends-in-Russo-Chinese-Military-Relations/index.html The Russo-Chinese relationship is a multi-dimensional one.  Thus progress in each aspect of those ties is uneven.  For instance, Russia has consistently failed to satisfy China’s demands for energy, which Russia regards as being excessively one-sided insofar as the apportionment of benefits is concerned. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2449/1/Why-Cant-Guantanamos-Inmates-Stay-in-America/index.html Politicians and journalists across Europe agree with US President Obama that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp should close. But the legal details of what to do with the remaining prisoners are difficult. German media commentators debate what to do with the inmates. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2410/1/Official-Statistics-on-ESS-Arrests-Indictments-in-Xinjiang-Point-to-Big-Crackdown-on-Political-Crime-in-China-in-Olympics-Year-/index.html At a recent news conference by procuratorial officials in Urumqi, statistics on arrests and prosecutions for endangering state security (ESS) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) were released. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2404/1/The-Great-Dragon-Awakens-China-Challenges-American-Hegemony/index.html Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive economic growth, which was triggered by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms program. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 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 Nations Security Council beginning next year, tensions have resurfaced with China over long-disputed and potentially oil-and-gas rich territories in the South China Sea. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1307/1/In-Shift-China-Greets-US-Empty-Handed/index.html If there's one thing the United States has come to expect before high-level diplomatic meetings with the Chinese, it is gifts. At the end of 2006, before the first strategic economic dialogue with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., China let its currency rise in a nod to U.S. pressure. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1300/1/China-Saudi-Cooperation/index.html Despite the distinctly varied socio-political, cultural and economic systems as well as philosophy of life, Saudi Arabia and China have conducted a fairly smooth relationship in all domains of cooperation for the last two decades. There have been regular mutual visits and agreements between them and they have endeared shared interests in politics, security and economics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1299/1/Beijing-Olympics-under-a-cloud/index.html On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London after the Games of 2012 are over. He is obviously keen to find ways of paying off the mountain of bills that appears to get higher by the day! zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1287/1/India-reveals-flawed-Tibet-policy/index.html The recent decision by India's ruling United Progressive Alliance government to bar ministers from attending a felicitation ceremony for the Dalai Lama is an indication not only of the blunders committed by the government in its foreign policy decision-making, but more perilously it exposes the flawed nature of India's policy towards Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1286/1/For-Paris-theres-no-China-la-rupture/index.html As President Nicolas Sarkozy completed his visit to China on November 26, Beijing discovered that its political, diplomatic and industrial relations with Paris won't suffer because of the end of the Jacques Chirac era. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1263/1/Chinas-Secret-War-Games-and-the-Kitty-Hawk-Affair-Flip-Flop/index.html Large-scale air and naval maneuvers off China’s southeast coast last week demonstrated the post-17th Party Congress leadership’s determination to project hard power in view of escalating tension in the Taiwan Strait. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1260/1/Will-China-quotLosequot-the-2008-Olympics/index.html When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Games in July 2001, the announcement ignited wild celebrations across the country. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to use the Games to showcase the country's emergence as a dynamic, modern nation. But as China's leaders begin final preparations for the Games next August, they may be wondering if hosting the event was such a good idea after all. They have significant reasons for doubt. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1258/1/The-world-does-not-shake-China/index.html "LET China sleep, for when she wakes the world will shake." So, purportedly, said Napoleon some 200 years ago. In Beijing this week European leaders have been telling their Chinese counterparts that such unease is at risk of spreading. Once content to let the Americans do the worrying, the EU is joining in. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1256/1/-EU-dances-around-China/index.html Issues ranging from food safety to German contact with the Dalai Lama created tension ahead of Wednesday's summit between the European Union and China in Beijing. Yet, these political "hot potatoes" do not diminish the attractiveness of the Chinese market for Western firms. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1243/1/Just-as-ignorant-of-Hus-China-as-of-Stalins-Russia/index.html Ethnic settlements of Uyghurs (ethnics of Turkic origin) exist in many countries, including the United States. But the dictatorship of China wants its population to be homogeneous ethnically as well. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1238/1/Chinas-Uighurs-fight-for-rights/index.html China's eight million Muslim Turkic Uighurs hit the global stage with the fight for their rights after Beijing uses the war on terror to legitimize a crackdown on the minority and stave off its worst nightmare. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1222/1/China-issues-blueprint-for-communist-led-political-system/index.html China on Thursday issued a blueprint for the expansion of its 'multi-party cooperation system' under the leadership of the ruling Communist Party, saying consultation with eight state-approved minor parties would 'play a more and more important role.' zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1219/1/Premier-Wens-Eurasia-Tour-Beijing-and-Moscows-Divergent-Views-on-Central-Asia/index.html On November 2, the sixth annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government began in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The six member states include Kazakhastan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan [1]. India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan attended as observers and Afghanistan as a guest of the host country Uzbekistan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1217/1/17th-Chinese-Communist-Party-Congress-Policy-Implications-on-Taiwan/index.html As expected, no major “policy” surprise came from the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress, particularly towards Taiwan. President Hu Jintao’s political report on Taiwan from now until 2012 will be more of the same. The Anti-Secession Law (fan fenlie guojia fa) provided the legal foundation, and Hu's "four-point” guidelines are directing the policy zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1211/1/Democracy-with-one-party-characteristics/index.html In the wake of last month's 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the leadership has stepped up its campaign to convince the world of the legitimacy of what might be called "democracy with Chinese characteristics". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1206/1/KAZAKHSTAN-MOVES-FURTHER-AWAY-FROM-RUSSIAN-DOMINATION-/index.html Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao recently concluded a whirlwind tour of Central Asia following the sixth Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, held in Tashkent on November 2. While there, Wen met with Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Masimov. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1199/1/-China-Keep-your-Olympic-promise/index.html China sees the 2008 Olympics as an opportunity to present a positive and smiling image to the outside world. (It actually has launched an international photo competition for children with smiling faces, but typically declines to indicate how these are to be used.) zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1195/1/Dont-Say-a-Word-Nov-2-is-Speak-Silence-Day/index.html Today, Canadians all over the globe are observing Speak Silence, an event designed to recognize the victims of human rights abuses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1194/1/Anti-Terrorism-with-Chinese-Characteristics-Peace-Mission-2007-in-Context/index.html In mid-August, approximately 6,500 soldiers from six countries wrapped up the largest joint military exercises held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). With roughly 1,600 troops participating, Chinese forces made up the second-largest contingent, just behind the 2,000-man Russian contribution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1193/1/Balancing-Chinas-Budgetary-Priorities-Defense-Spending-and-Domestic-Challenges/index.html The true level of China’s current defense budget is difficult to calculate, but projecting future trends in Beijing’s military spending entails struggling with even greater uncertainties and complexities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1192/1/Post-Congress-Appointments-Motivated-by-Factional-and-Ideological-Biases-Not-Reform-/index.html With the just-ended 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress marking the mid-point of his ten-year tenure, General Secretary and President Hu Jintao is a man in a hurry. There is little wonder why after consolidating his grip over the party, state and army, the “new helmsman” has moved quickly to fulfill the goals enunciated at the five-yearly conclave. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1181/1/Sharpening-the-dragons-claws/index.html The People's Republic of China continues to send worrisome signals about its security strategy. As the tone of cross-straits relations grows increasingly strident, China's latest military reshuffle and ongoing lack of transparency about its military budget are creating new tensions with both the United States and its neighbors in East Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1180/1/Assessing-Chinas-economic-and-military-power/index.html The Chinese Communist Party holds its Seventeenth National Congress this month. That congress and the session of China’s national legislature next March mark the midway point and the reconfirmation in power of the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao leadership and provide occasions for assessing China’s recent rise and its road ahead. In anticipation of these two congresses, FPRI convened a group of experts to consider the extent and implications of China’s rise as a military and economic power. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1179/1/China-and-Russia-unite-against-US-military-expansionism-in-Asia/index.html What American leaders and officials called the “New World Order” is what the Chinese and Russians consider a “Unipolar World.” This concern for U.S. superpower status as a context for enforcing a U.S. Bush administration neo-fascist agenda has bridged the Chinese (Sino)-Russian divide between Beijing and Moscow. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1178/1/China-angered-by-German-accusations-of-Internet-espionage/index.html The People's Republic of China has rejected as "baseless" the latest German accusations according to which Chinese state agencies are behind attacks on computers in Germany. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1177/1/Who-Rules-China/index.html The big question everyone in the know was asking going into this week's 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was who would emerge as the anointed next leader of China. But there remains the other big question, one that too often goes unasked: How much does it matter? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1176/1/Will-Olympic-torch-light-way-to-changes-in-China/index.html When Toronto was bidding to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the mayor of Rome gave the bid team some advice, having just lost Rome's bid to host in 2004 to a sentimentally attractive campaign by Athens. According to Francesco Rutelli, the IOC veers between safe "technical" bids and "political" bids representing a more daring "idea."  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1175/1/China-Ushers-Into-Position-Its-Next-Era-Of-Leaders/index.html Xi Jinping, the son of a Chinese guerrilla leader who rose through the ranks to become Communist Party chief in business-friendly Shanghai, was designated Monday as the most likely successor to President Hu Jintao as leader of the world's most populous nation. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1174/1/A-Political-Win-for-Chinas-Hu/index.html Who says China's Communist leaders have no sense of humor? When President Hu Jintao introduced the nation's new lineup of top leaders at the grand finale of the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, he stuck mostly to the near-robotic demeanor that has become his trademark. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1173/1/Putins-Power-Play/index.html Russian tyrant-in-waiting Vladimir Putin's plan to restore a one-man dictatorship in Moscow has caused anxiety in the thin ranks of Russian liberals as well as among partisans of secure independence in the former Soviet republics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1171/1/Enforced-loyalty-in-distant-lands-/index.html At dusk in the city of Kasghar, you can shoot your enemies one-by-one at one of the arcade games set up in the main square. The sun has gone down. Dozens of old men walk towards the Id Kah mosque just off the square. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1168/1/-Beijings-Demonstration-Sports/index.html Our president has announced that he will attend the Beijing Olympics next year as an honored guest of China’s Communist government. The president is keen to go because, said a spokesman, “he loves sports.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1166/1/China-Burma-and-the-Saffron-Revolution/index.html The violent crackdown against anti-government protesters in Rangoon at the end of September shone a spotlight on China’s interests, influence, and objectives in Burma, Beijing’s closest ally in Southeast Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1165/1/Hus-Impasse-at-the-17th-Party-Congress/index.html The selection of the new Beijing leadership, which will be endorsed by the ongoing 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress, has revealed disturbing schisms among the major factions and, in particular, President Hu Jintao’s failure to establish overriding authority five years after acceding to the country’s top job. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1164/1/Chinas-Most-Powerful-Princelings-How-Many-Will-Enter-the-New-Politburo/index.html High on the list of conceivable outcomes of the 17th Party Congress that will cause strong social resentment in China is the possibility that the newly established Politburo will be filled with many “princelings,” leaders who come from families of former high-ranking officials. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1162/1/Retired-Cadre-Criticize-CCP-for-Stifling-Debate-and-Ignoring-the-Poor/index.html In an open letter to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee, 170 retired senior cadre denounced the current government's economic policies as unfair toward the working class and harmful to the environment, adding that they had departed drastically from the original socialist values of Mao Zedong. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1159/1/Tibetans-dream-of-autonomy/index.html In China, prosperity grows, most people breathe more freely than for decades and the urban coast responds to a modernising world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1157/1/Chinas-voices-of-dissent-/index.html Although China's Communist Party exerts huge power and influence over the everyday lives of its citizens, there are several activists who continue to pose major problems for the authorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1154/1/Central-Asia-pulled-between-East-and-West/index.html The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has recently raised its profile by expanding its traditional emphasis on anti-terrorism to include potential peacekeeping activities within the former Soviet region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1140/1/Could-Nobel-Win-Push-Gore-Into-08-Race-/index.html Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1135/1/India-falters-as-China-races-ahead-in-the-new-Great-Game---Feature-/index.html India's plans to be the main player in Central Asia have been thwarted by China, which has emerged as the dominant force in the "New Great Game" with soaring trade and multi-billion-dollar investments in energy and infrastructure. Having long considered the Central Asian Republics (CARs) as its backyard, New Delhi expected to play a lead role in the region after the 1991 collapse of its traditional ally the Soviet Union. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1132/1/Reorienting-the-17th-Party-Congress-Boosting-Unity-and-Thwarting-Taiwan/index.html Nearly overnight, the focus of the 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress has shifted from the debate regarding Chinese political and economic reform to the promotion of internal party unity and the combating of Taiwan’s proposed referendum. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1130/1/XINJIANG-CHINA-ETHNIC-KAZAKHS-TO-PONDER-FUTURE-AMID-TOURISM-BOOM-/index.html The Chinese province of Xinjiang is often in the news, with most media reports examining the independence aspirations of its Uighur population, as well as the Go West policy of populating the region with Han Chinese. There is another, less reported story in Xinjiang -- the erosion of ethnic Kazakh culture. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1129/1/Gore-eyed-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize-/index.html Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and/or another climate campaigner are likely to be awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize next week, according to a seasoned award watcher. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1113/1/In-the-playground-of-the-superpowers/index.html The Caucasus/Central Asian region has historically been an important area at the crossroads of the European and Asian continents. Its cities were important stopover points along the famous Silk Road trading route and they were centers of education and knowledge. It has always been an area of interest to invaders, conquerors, and superpowers. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s left a power vacuum in the region, and once again drew the attention of the world's superpowers. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1108/1/Genocide-Games/index.html An international outcry over Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games has grown steadily louder in recent months. How, it is being asked, can the premier event in international sports be hosted by a nation complicit in the most heinous international crimes? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1101/1/Ten-Things-You-Should-Know-About-China/index.html Beijing was selected to host the summer Olympics in 2008 despite its dismal human rights record. Although China is a rising global economic power, the government continues to restrict even the most basic political rights and civil liberties of Chinese citizens.  Chinese citizens have no say in their leadership, the judiciary is not independent, and freedom of speech, association, and religion are all severely restricted. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1096/1/Beijings-silly-season-begins-/index.html Now that the date of the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has finally been set for October 15, the paranoid desire to ensure that it comes off without an unscripted hitch is spreading like one of those viruses Chinese leaders have come to dread. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1089/1/War-games-in-the-Urals-/index.html Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) turning into a defence alliance? The big-scale war games the regional group held in August led many analysts to this conclusion. They may have jumped the gun.  “Peace Mission-2007” was the largest military exercise the SCO ever staged. It began in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the operation planning was done, and moved on to the Ural Mountains in Russia for action on the ground. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1086/1/An-Opportunity-for-Wall-St-in-Chinas-Surveillance-Boom-/index.html Li Runsen, the powerful technology director of China’s ministry of public security, is best known for leading Project Golden Shield, China’s intensive effort to strengthen police control over the Internet. But last month Mr. Li took an additional title: director for China Security and Surveillance Technology, a fast-growing company that installs and sometimes operates surveillance systems for Chinese police agencies, jails and banks, among other customers. The company has just been approved for a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1085/1/For-Chinas-Censors-Electronic-Offenders-Are-the-New-Frontier/index.html Li Hua was outraged. The public high school where he had been teaching civics for six years was about to be swallowed up by a fancy private institution. The merger had been ordered by local officials, Li suspected, because they had a financial stake in the big new school and wanted to see it flourish. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1077/1/Balancing-act-at-the-party-congress/index.html The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will open its 17th National Congress on October 15, according to a decision made by the Politburo at a meeting on August 28. But except for the date, no information about the leadership reshuffle has been revealed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1051/1/The-new-NATO-of-the-East-takes-shape/index.html If optimism is a force multiplier, as former US secretary of state Colin Powell once said, it has worked well so far for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. There were times in the past seven years when it seemed doubtful that the SCO would pull through, beating back the all-out US assault on its credibility. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1048/1/Peace-Mission-2007---Chinese-Military-Political-Venture-in-Central-Asia/index.html While the World has been engaged in other parts of Asia; West, South and South East, Central Asia has been relatively in the background over the past few years. Yet China in concert with Russia is slowly making inroads into the region. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001 by six nations, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1044/1/IS-SCO-UNITY-AN-ILLUSION-/index.html The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit held in Bishkek fostered an image of unity among Central Asian states. The reality of the region’s political and economic conditions, however, belies such solidarity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1043/1/SCO-energy-ties/index.html For the past several days, Western analysts have been fixated on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization`s massive Peace Mission 2007 anti-terrorist drill. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1041/1/CHINESE-GROWTH-PLANS-STOKE-FEARS-OF-CENTRAL-ASIAN-ECOLOGICAL-CATASTROPHE-/index.html Located a two-hour drive from the Kazakh border, the area around the Chinese city of Yining hardly seems beset by water difficulties. The land, well watered by the Ili River and its tributaries, remains lush and green despite the brutal summer heat. Seasoned local farmers are unable to recall a time when their irrigation channels dried up. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1040/1/The-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-guards-Chinas-back/index.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), whose six member countries just concluded a summit meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as well as a joint war game started in China's Urumqi and ended in the Urals of Russia, is gradually gaining momentum in Central Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1039/1/SCO-summit-military-exercises-pose-challenge-to-US/index.html Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hu Jintao of China, as well as the heads of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan met in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, last week. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1029/1/The-China-syndrome/index.html In the 1970s, U.S. Senator Dick Clark said his country couldn't meddle in South African policy. "But," he added, "I think we ought to meddle in our own." The same could be said of Canada and China today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1027/1/SCO-Summit-Crackdown-Highlights-Failings-on-Human-Rights/index.html Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization missed a key opportunity to implement the organization's human rights principles when they met on August 16 at the SCO summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Human Rights Watch said today. Moreover, the Kyrgyz government adopted security measures that restricted human rights as it prepared to host the annual summit. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1026/1/The-Peace-Mission/index.html The world will understandably have some questions Thursday when Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Vladimir Putin meet at Garrison Chebarkul, located in the Chelyabinsk region near the Ural mountains, to review troops from both their countries, as well as four Central Asian states. The event will commemorate the end of maneuvers called Peace Mission 2007, and it raises some important questions. Does this exercise signal a stepping up of already substantial military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing? And if it does, cooperation against what or whom? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1021/1/Mistaken-Identities-Focus-on-Cultural-Heritage-Protection-in-Xinjiang/index.html In October 2005, China celebrates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and in this the third issue of China Heritage Newsletter we examine aspects of the cultural heritage of Xinjiang, a region that covers 1.66 million square kilometers in China's far north-west, or roughly one sixth of the country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1020/1/quotSCO-Summit-Demonstrates-its-Growing-Cohesionquot-/index.html In July 2007, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (S.C.O.) -- consisting of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan -- founded a so-called "Energy Club" to coordinate energy strategies. On August 16, the heads of state will hold their annual summit, this time in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. After the summit, they will travel to Chebarkul, a city in Russia's Urals, to attend the closure of the S.C.O. military exercises. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1017/1/With-US-in-mind-China-heads-to-Central-Asia-summit/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao goes to Central Asia on Tuesday for a summit and war games officially focused on fighting terrorism, but which Beijing hopes will also boost its presence in an energy-rich region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1009/1/Arms-Energy-and-Commerce-in-Sino-Russian-Relations/index.html Having moved beyond their antagonistic Cold War relationship, Russia and China are now seeking to develop a strategic partnership. In addition to Russia's substantial arms sales to China and the joint military exercises conducted under the umbrella of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the two countries have also sought to cement their bilateral relationship through energy ties. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/998/1/If-the-War-on-Terror-is-Serious-Look-to-China-/index.html The communist/capitalist chimera that is China fascinates us with its challenge to our understanding of communism as mutually exclusive from significant economic growth, much less market domination. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/994/1/SCO-is-primed-and-ready-to-fire/index.html It may seem improbable that a regional cooperation organization commences its annual summit against the backdrop of military exercises. The European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the African Union, the Organization of Latin American States - none of them has ever done that. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/990/1/SCO-TO-HOST-quotPEACE-MISSION-2007-ANTI-TERRORIST-DRILL-IN-AUGUST/index.html Military analysts will be closely watching next month’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization anti-terrorist exercise, "Peace Mission 2007.” The drill will be the SCO’s largest joint exercise in its six-year history. Contingents from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will take part, along with their country’s defense ministers. About 6,500 troops and 80 aircraft will participate. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/988/1/ECONOMIC-CHANGE-PUTS-SOCIAL-PRESSURE-ON-UIGHURS-IN-CHINAS-XINJIANG-PROVINCE/index.html The intersection of Ba Ying and Siao Tong streets in the western Chinese oil city of Korla could pass for suburban California. Shopping malls jostle for the attention of the well-heeled passersby, while the nearby river is lined with pristine walkways, parks, and sculptures. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/986/1/Beijings-war-on-terror-hides-brutal-crackdown-on-Muslims/index.html The Chinese executioners came for Ismail Semed before 9am. They led him out of his cell as the sun climbed over the Tien Shan mountains in the land he called East Turkestan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/983/1/Beijing-keeps-Islamabad-honest/index.html China's relations with Pakistan, which are close and warm as never before, have come under severe strain lately from the growing militancy in Pakistan. The Pakistani military's storming last week of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) has been an important indicator of the tenor of the relationship. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/977/1/Spy-catching-Kyrgyz-style/index.html Accusations of espionage against Dzhyparkul Arykova, a consultant to the Kyrgyz parliamentary press service arrested on June 19, has thrown the national intelligence community into crisis. In recent days the authorities have tried to distance themselves from media reports that the case centers on Arykova’s involvement with Chinese intelligence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/971/1/Resistance-is-fiscal/index.html The last time I wrote from here was 1999. I filed my column from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Now there isn’t enough left of that somewhat fictional official autonomy to justify the dateline. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/968/1/Expressing-the-sense-of-the-House-of-Representatives-that-the-Government-of-the-Peoples-Republic/index.html Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People's Republic of China should immediately release from custody the children of Rebiya Kadeer and Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil and should refrain from further engaging in acts of cultural, linguistic, and religious suppression directed against the Uyghur people, and for other purposes. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/964/1/Unintended-Uighurs/index.html Although it is easy to forget in the strange first decade of the 21st century, warning against the unintended consequences of rash government action was once a favorite theme of conservatives. Prudence was what traditional conservatives counseled. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/963/1/Sino-Canadian-Relations-Enter-Uncharted-Waters/index.html Only eighteen months ago, China’s relations with Canada seemed to be at their best in history. President Hu Jintao had visited Prime Minister Paul Martin in Ottawa, declaring that a bilateral strategic partnership was established and the two countries would cooperate in a range of areas from energy security to environment to trade and investment. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/961/1/An-Olympic-Reprieve-for-Chinas-Convicts/index.html For those facing time on China's death row, it must have come as a rare piece of good news: late last week, the Chinese government said it has reduced the number of prisoners it will execute this year. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/959/1/Group-calls-on-China-to-define-state-secret/index.html What do mailing newspaper clippings to your husband, defending displaced tenants and writing a doctoral thesis using 50-year-old library records have in common? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/943/1/China-Media-Freedom-Under-Assault-Ahead-of-2008-Olympics/index.html The Chinese government is backtracking on new rules that allow much greater freedom to foreign journalists, and is continuing to deny comparable freedoms to Chinese journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/937/1/China-The-2008-Olympics-as-a-Major-Activist-Inroad/index.html Fidelity Investments has sold off more than 90 percent of its holdings in Chinese state-owned oil giant PetroChina, Fidelity announced May 16. Although the company declined to explain the sale, it almost certainly is related to pressure from human rights and religious activists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/936/1/Listening-to-historys-creaking-bones/index.html Beside their obvious antiquity, why should heaps of cattle shoulder-blades and turtle shells dating from the 13th and 14th centuries B.C. be of such immense importance to today's archaeologists? The answer, as we discover in Peter Hessler's eponymously named "Oracle Bones," is that the prophecies incised onto their surfaces represent examples of East Asia's earliest writing forms. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/932/1/WP-Tainted-Chinese-imports-common/index.html For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught -- many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/930/1/Guarding-the-West-Chinas-New-Mechanized-Infantry-Division/index.html The role of Xinjiang and Tibet as both suppliers and conduits of resources necessary for China’s continued economic growth has resulted in a reevaluation of both regions’ importance. Xinjiang, with its domestic oil fields in the Tarin Basin and its role as a hub for oil and gas pipelines arriving from Central Asia, has become China’s main source of non-seaborne petroleum zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/929/1/Flowing-Downstream-The-Sino-Kazakh-Water-Dispute/index.html Within the current Sino-Central Asian rapprochement, the issue over water rights and management has become an important factor in regional cooperation, but also a source of increasing contention. Kazakhstan and China share some 20 transboundary rivers. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/928/1/Hu-Jintao-Battles-the-CCPs-Crisis-of-Confidence/index.html The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is undergoing its worst crisis of confidence since the Tiananmen Square crackdown 18 years ago. While President and CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao is currently preoccupied with the means by which to consolidate the power of his faction at the upcoming 17th Party Congress, a loss of faith in the party as well as a dramatic decline in probity and old-style "combat-readiness" has hit the nation's 71 million party members. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/924/1/China-Security-Public-Relations-and-the-2008-Olympics/index.html The portrait of Mao Zedong overlooking Tiananmen Square was replaced May 13, a day after a 35-year-old migrant from Xinjiang threw a flaming object at the iconic portrait. The incident raises numerous issues regarding security and public relations for China ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/921/1/The-Illusions-of-Progress-in-China/index.html As China adopts the facade of a modern, legal state, it remains tethered to the omnipresent Chinese Communist Party – cruel, corrupt, and fully in control zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/918/1/Review-of-State-Departments-2006-Country-Reports/index.html Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Written Submission for the Record to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/916/1/China-Human-Rights-Briefing/index.html China has explicitly vowed to take measures to control incidents of social unrest and crime in the run-up to the 17th Communist Party Congress in the fall and the Summer 2008 Olympics in Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/912/1/Will-Europe-Help-the-Uighurs/index.html A year ago, the EU called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. On July 1, Portugal takes over the EU’s rotating presidency and, together with its EU partners, Lisbon must insist the United States either prosecute, in accordance with internationally recognised due process standards, or release the remaining 385 detainees. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/909/1/Beijing-spring-Democracy-is-in-the-air/index.html Spring has not proved to be a hopeful season in the politics of China's past, but that could be changing. These days, there is democracy as well as pollen in the air. All this seems to pave the way for the introduction of a more democratic election system in the all-important 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this autumn. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/908/1/Lessons-from-Kashmir-and-Xinjiang/index.html Over the past few years, first China and then India quietly celebrated the success of their efforts to improve the socio-political environment of their restive Islamic regions, namely Xinjiang and Kashmir. Neither country can feel proud about the record of human rights on this count, but it is possible that credit for the success will be assigned to the wrong sources. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/901/1/Nazarbayev-promises-economic-assistance-urges-political-stability-in-Kyrgyzstan/index.html During his April 26 visit to Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev promised greater economic integration with Kyrgyzstan. The president, however, slammed his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev for the continuous political turmoil in that country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/896/1/Chinas-Development-Strategy-Fails-to-Benefit-Critical-Ethnic-Minorities-and-Masks-Repression/index.html China's massive economic development strategy, touted to benefit rural ethnic groups in its western regions, in practice excludes, marginalizes, and masks the increased repression of ethnic minority groups such as Mongols, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, according to a new report by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and Human Rights in China (HRIC). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/892/1/quotEU-arms-embargo-must-continue-to-protect-Taiwan--New-report-warns-of-danger-of-war-in-East-Asia/index.html China’s rearmament is increasing the danger of war in East Asia, warns the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfBV) in its human rights report "EU arms embargo must continue to protect Taiwan . In it the GfbV calls on the EU not to ignore the growing fears among China’s neighbours of the gain in military strength of the People’s Republic. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/891/1/Repression-Of-Chinese-Minorities/index.html In its annual human rights report on China, the U.S. State Department expressed great concern over continued violations of the political, religious, and cultural rights of China’s Uighur Muslims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/887/1/Activists-Turn-Up-Heat-on-Beijing-Olympics/index.html Today, the host of the 2008 Summer Games plans to reveal the route of the torch relay that will carry the Olympic flame into Beijing. But in what may be a prelude of things to come, four people were detained on Mount Everest yesterday for protesting a proposal to carry the flame up the world's tallest mountain, on the border with politically sensitive Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/882/1/Columbia-Faculty-Hire-Faces-Human-Rights-Questions/index.html Columbia Law School has offered a faculty appointment to an official at the State Department, Matthew Waxman. Despite credentials as a Fulbright Scholar, Yale Law School graduate, and former clerk for Justice Souter, Mr. Waxman may face opposition from faculty members at some law schools because of his former role as the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, in which he oversaw and defended the detention facility for war prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/877/1/Uighur-Cases-Highlight-Legal-Wrangling-Over-Guantanamo-Detentions/index.html The recent conviction of Australian kangaroo-skinner turned globetrotting jihadist David Hicks may, at least temporarily, bring an end to years of judicial power struggles that have surrounded the creation of a special war crimes tribunal here. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/871/1/Beijing-tries-to-rein-in-Muslims/index.html Although it rarely reaches the outside world, news from Xinjiang province in northwestern China near the border with Kazakhstan is sel-dom good and never happy. Xinjiang is part of Muslim China, and the news from Beijing is that a number of separatist rebels have been arrested and detained. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/870/1/China-is-a-20th-century-idea/index.html The nation of China evolved as an idea not more than 100 years ago. Then how could Tibet have always existed as a part of China? A conversation with the Dalai Lama in the 1980s has remained in my memory. The conversation included the future of Tibet and China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/867/1/In-Fear-Of-Chinese-Democracy/index.html Listen to the apostles of free trade, and you'll learn that once consumer choice comes to authoritarian regimes, democracy is sure to follow. Call it the Starbucks rule: Situate enough Starbucks around Shanghai, and the Communist Party's control will crumble like dunked biscotti. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/865/1/Public-Diplomacy-in-Sino-Egyptian-Relations/index.html China’s pursuit of stable sources of energy and access to burgeoning consumer markets largely dictates its diplomacy in resource-rich Africa and the Middle East. An oft overlooked objective of this strategy, however, is Beijing’s aim of enhancing its position as a rising global power, which would require the ability to project influence outside of its immediate regional periphery. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/864/1/Arms-Sales-to-Africa-Beijings-Reputation-at-Risk/index.html China’s involvement in Africa has attracted increasing criticism from Western and African observers. Particular concern is voiced over China’s willingness to support the continent’s authoritarian regimes—many of which have heinous human rights and governance records—with a no-strings-attached attitude. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/863/1/Chinas-Darfur-Policy/index.html As the atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan continue, Beijing has become the subject of much international criticism for its failure to utilize its leverage over Khartoum to halt the violence and persuade President Omar al-Bashir to permit UN peacekeepers to enter into the region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/853/1/THE-IRAQ-ENERGY-FACTOR-IN-SINO-JAPANESE-RELATIONS/index.html Iraq could soon emerge as an important new focal point of intensifying Chinese and Japanese commercial diplomacy and energy rivalry, in spite of their extensive overlapping interests and mutually beneficial economic ties. It is difficult to determine whether friction over energy-related matters is a symptom or an additional cause of the strained relationship between China and Japan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/852/1/CHINAS-EMERGING-DOMESTIC-DEBT-MARKETS/index.html That China’s financial system—even in the midst of reform and development—has acquired significant international influence is evident. The 8.9 percent drop of the Shanghai Composite Index on February 27, compounding certain remarks on the U.S. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/851/1/ROTC-WITH-CHINESE-CHARACTERISTICS-TRAINING-THE-PLA-IN-CIVILIAN-UNIVERSITIES/index.html China is nearly a decade into a program to commission up to half of the new People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers from its finest universities. In the near-term, this initiative will take advantage of civilian institutions of higher education to train large numbers of technologically proficient military leaders better able to function on the high-tech battlefields of the 21st century. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/848/1/-US-Japan-in-security-overdrive/index.html A rat that gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction, says the classic Chinese proverb on the importance of knowing one's physical limits. Yet the United States and its regional allies appear blissfully content that China, Asia's economic and political tiger, will not swat back as they pursue their crude security containment strategy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/847/1/The-third-way-for-China/index.html Children are raised to believe that no one likes a tattle-tale. As adults, this ingrained lesson subconsciously morphs into frustration with people who point out the difficulties and disconnects with ideas we find useful. As the stakes get greater, it becomes increasingly awkward for an outside observer to suggest problems with commonly accepted tactics and strategies. Nowhere is this more complicated than in geopolitical zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/846/1/Remember-the-Elephant-India-is-our-real-partner-not-China/index.html For too long Canada has somehow overlooked the biggest democracy in the world, India, mistakenly focusing on China instead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/837/1/CHINESE-COUNTER-TERRORIST-STRIKE-IN-XINJIANG/index.html In the midst of the lead up to next year’s Beijing Olympics and a power struggle in the Chinese Communist Party, a January raid on an alleged terrorist training camp in Xinjiang killed 18 terrorist suspects and one policeman. Seventeen more suspects were reported captured. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/839/1/ENSURING-THE-GO-ABROAD-POLICY-SERVES-CHINAS-DOMESTIC-PRIORITIES/index.html The linkages between China’s domestic situation and its external affairs have become increasingly apparent and complex for Chinese leaders. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/838/1/IN-A-FORTNIGHT/index.html In accordance with President Hu Jintao’s commitment toward creating a “harmonious society (hexie shehui) within China, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao unveiled a new series of measures that would provide medical, agricultural and social assistance to the country’s impoverished rural residents. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/835/1/KYRGYZSTAN-PREPARES-TO-HOLD-SCO-SUMMIT-THIS-SUMMER/index.html This summer Kyrgyzstan plans to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) annual summit and assume its presidency. SCO members include China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; while India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan hold observer status. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/833/1/Taking-a-Stand-for-Chinas-Uighurs/index.html On the morning of June 1 of this year, the Abdureyim family traveled with a police escort to what they believed would be an “International Children’s Day celebration. But on a deserted stretch of the road, in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, China, the cars suddenly came to a halt. Within minutes brothers Ablikim and Alim were pulled outside and beaten to the ground. As their sister begged the officers to stop, one of them retorted, “Call your mother. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/830/1/Using-the-D-word-Policy-Options-for-the-US/index.html Diplomacy is a word seldom uttered in connection with United States foreign policy. Lack of diplomatic discourse has ultimately resulted in the degradation of the U.S.’s image in the international community. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/829/1/Engaging-China-requires-a-balance-of-values-and-interests/index.html The recent exchange in the news media between the Canadian government and China's assistant minister of foreign affairs underlines fundamental differences in the approach to building the kind of relationship where difficult questions can be raised, discussed and settled in a mutually respectful manner that is likely to lead to change. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/826/1/Rivals-Seek-to-Expand-Freedoms-in-China/index.html Li Jinsong and Li Jianqiang are Chinese trial lawyers who take on difficult political cases, tangle with the police and seek solace in the same religion, Christianity. But like many who devote themselves to expanding freedoms and the rule of law in China, the two spend as much time clashing over tactics and principles as they do challenging the ruling Communist Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/825/1/Al-Qaedas-China-problem/index.html Al-Qaeda has a China problem, and no one is watching. Despite al-Qaeda's significant efforts to support Muslim insurgents in China, Beijing has succeeded in limiting popular support for anti-government violence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/822/1/SINO-TURKISH-RELATIONS-BEYOND-THE-SILK-ROAD/index.html Some fifty years ago, Chinese and Turkish troops actually fought one another on the battlefield; Turkey was the sole Muslim nation to send troops to South Korea under the United Nations mandate, in which 14 other nations sent ground forces to support the U.S.-led coalition. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/820/1/CHINESE-SPECIAL-OPERATIONS-FORCES-LESSONS-LEARNED-AND-POTENTIAL-MISSIONS/index.html Over the past 10-15 years, China has placed increasing emphasis on the development and improvement of its special operations forces [1]. According to the 2000 U.S. Department of Defense report on Chinese military power, “Particularly since the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict, the PLA has devoted considerable resources to the development of Special Operations Forces (SOF). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/819/1/IN-A-FORTNIGHT/index.html In a recent report assessing the future missions of the four Keelung (Kidd) class destroyers that were recently commissioned into the Taiwanese Navy, Chien-tuan K’o chi (Defense Technology Monthly) senior editor Chang Li-teh argued that understanding U.S. and Japanese military policies toward Japan’s island chain is critical for Taiwanese military planners. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/813/1/Cycling-the-Silk-Road---Yurts-Yaks-Hide-Patches-and-a-Wary-Uighur-Separatist/index.html One morning, after a night of sleeping beside the road, I woke to find a boy standing over my tent, peering at me through the screen. My body was sore and dehydrated, and I passed out. Several hours later, I woke up with him once again standing over me, holding a bottle of yogurt. He helped me pack up my tent in the strong wind and took me to his camp. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/812/1/CHINA-quotReligious-Communistsquot-and-religious-freedom/index.html Numbers of religious believers in China are, recent surveys indicate, much greater than previously thought, and a growing percentage of these believers are also Communist Party members, Forum 18 News Service notes. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/811/1/MOSCOW-BEIJING-NEW-DELHI-AXIS-MOVES-IN-SLOW-MOTION/index.html On Wednesday, February 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Chinese and Indian counterparts Li Zhaoxing and Natwar Singh in New Delhi, where the three countries pledged to contribute to global peace, security, and stability. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/810/1/Potential-gas-customers-line-up-to-welcome-new-Turkmen-leader/index.html Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov was inaugurated as Turkmenistan’s new president at the Ruhiyev palace in Ashgabat on February 14. Reporters noted that 2,487 members of the Halk Maslahaty (People’s Council) and foreign guests, including heads of states and governments from 30 countries, attended the ceremony. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/809/1/China-and-Iran-A-New-Route/index.html While China has successfully integrated its eastern port cities into the global economy, the country’s western regions have not been so fortunate. But as John Garver writes, recent rail projects linking China with Iran and Pakistan have effectively created a southwestern corridor to the sea — providing China with both economic and national security advantages. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/804/1/Islam-as-a-political-issue-in-China/index.html As political difficulties of US President George W Bush mount, China has decided that it should have its own poke at him. In an article published in the international issue of People's Daily of February 1, Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, was critical of Bush regarding his conduct of the "global war on terrorism". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/799/1/A-dangerous-continental-drift/index.html Mention the name Zheng He in China and you're bound to see ordinary Chinese citizens swell with a sense of pride. The name of the most famous Chinese seafarer, who is believed to have circumnavigated the globe and almost single-handedly extended the might, power and influence of the Middle Kingdom during the Ming Dynasty, is known to almost every Chinese, adult and child alike. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/794/1/BEIJINGS-GREAT-LEAP-OUTWARD-POWER-PROJECTION-WITH-CHINESE-CHARACTERISTICS/index.html The forceful projection of China’s hard and soft power in recent months marks a stunning departure from the foreign policy axioms of late patriarch Deng Xiaoping. Deng, who anointed President Hu Jintao as the “core of the Fourth Generation leadership, noted shortly after the Tiananmen Square massacre that China must “keep a low profile and never take the lead in global affairs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/793/1/CHINA-AND-CENTRAL-ASIA-CHARTING-A-NEW-COURSE-FOR-REGIONAL-COOPERATION/index.html China established close relations with Central Asia as early as 2,000 years ago, largely through their interactions along the Silk Road. While the Central Asian region became increasingly isolated during the late 19th and 20th century, the disintegration of the Soviet Union allowed Central Asia to open its doors once again to the outside world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/777/1/China-ought-to-be-feared-because-of-its-weakness-not-strength/index.html In the meantime, all these accomplishments rest on the shaky foundation of exploitation of the millions deprived of elementary social rights. The existing treats to China's security, both internal and external ones, make its road to global leadership all the more difficult. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/774/1/How-to-lose-your-shirt-in-China/index.html The economy beckons, but its business climate makes China a killing field for Canadian firms zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/772/1/Uygur-analysis-appals/index.html I am appalled at almost every point of analysis in Martin Wayne's article "Beijing inflicts a defeat on al-Qaeda" (January 25). For a start, readers should be informed that when Dr Wayne discusses instances of Uygurs' political or religious violence, his frequent reliance upon the proviso "reportedly" is a reference to official Chinese reports only. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/766/1/Chinas-Gift/index.html The Bush administration is sounding a muted alarm over China's destruction, by means of an adapted ballistic missile, of an old weather satellite 530 miles up in space. We'd be better off treating the Jan. 11 test as a rare and useful gift. Wittingly or not, the Chinese have put paid to four decades of wishful thinking about the militarization of space -- and what America should do about it. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/763/1/China-Cracks-Down-on-Islamists/index.html China’s dramatic raid in a remote Central Asian outpost underscores the threat of Muslim extremism—and Beijing's credibility problem, too. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/762/1/US-allies-protest-Chinas-anti-satellite-test/index.html Britain, Japan and Australia joined the United States on Friday in voicing concern about the rising militarization of space after China successfully carried out a test of an anti-satellite weapon. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/760/1/Why-Chinas-Missile-Test-Is-Troubling/index.html It's springtime for anti-satellite missiles — again — now that China has fired a missile into space and destroyed an aging weather satellite orbiting 500 miles above the earth. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/758/1/Chinese-Stability-Yin-and-Yang/index.html Not to discount all the dizzying growth and change, but it’s often easy to view progress in China as sloppy sublation of the most basic problems. Old issues never die. They just get old. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/753/1/Rumors-of-a-split-in-Chinas-elite/index.html In China, what promises to be a year rich in rumor has begun with a whopper: Vice President Zeng Qinghong will take over the presidency, one of three top posts currently held by Hu Jintao, the country's No 1 leader. That may be signaled when deputies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) get together in Beijing this autumn for its biggest meeting since 2002. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/752/1/Invisible-war--Nation-Needs-A-War-Cabinet/index.html India is in the midst of an invisible war. It is an unrecognised war. The government tinkers with terrorism in various fronts. The enemy continues to advance. Last year the enemy struck at many points. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/751/1/China-India-to-drive-tough-border-bargain/index.html New Delhi, January 16 - The Indian and Chinese special representatives will begin the ninth round of talks to resolve the Sino-Indian border dispute on Wednesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/750/1/Hu-Jintao-Gambles-on-the-West/index.html China strongman Hu Jintao is manufacturing his own power base out of allies from Tibet, Xinjiang and Gansu zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/747/1/Human-Rights-Watch---World-Report-2007/2007.html Human Rights Watch’s 556-page World Report 2007 contains survey information on human rights developments during 2006 in more than 75 countries. In addition to the introductory essay on the European Union, the volume contains essays on freedom of expression since 9/11, the plight of migrant domestic workers, and a human rights agenda for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/746/1/Xinjiang-Deaths-Raise-Troubling-Questions/index.html In March 2003, three tense Chinese officials called the three of us Americans and a Canadian teaching English at a private boarding school in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. The three were senior administrators at the school, but in our six months working there we had never met them, nor any other administrators for that matter. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/737/1/China-Exploiting-the-Uighur-Terrorist-Camp-Raid/index.html Chinese state media reported Jan. 9 on the "thousands" of people who turned out for the funeral of a Chinese police officer killed in a shootout four days earlier with suspected Uighur Islamist militants in Xinjiang. The coverage, part of a media blitz to bring attention to the destruction of an alleged terrorist base in western China, serves both domestic and international public relations purposes. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/733/1/An-Uyghur-May-Become-Kazakhstans-Next-Prime-Minister/index.html Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov resigned Jan. 8. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is expected to appoint a successor to Akhmetov ahead of the Central Asian nation's Jan. 10 joint session of Parliament; he probably will pick another loyal functionary. Kazakhstan's prime minister is not an independent actor in the nation's policymaking, so the change will have a limited effect on Kazakhstan's strategy toward the outside world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/729/1/Compelling-New-Book-Takes-Deeper-Look-at-Hu-Jintao/hu.html In late 2003, China’s new president, Hu Jintao, made a speech celebrating the late Mao Zedong. He said not a word about Mao’s disastrous mistakes. Veteran China hand Willy Lam writes in a compelling new book that this speech acted as a wake-up call to China's intelligentsia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/720/1/For-Guantanamo-Review-Boards-Limits-Abound/guantanamo.html At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/719/1/China-pushes-westward-growth-tighter-grip/index.html Not too long ago, Kashgar was a sleepy town with mud houses, largely unchanged since Marco Polo trekked through in the 13th century. But now this frontier town, like other outposts in China's far west, is booming with oil, cotton, coal and trade. Trains, new highways, and an international airport are bringing thousands of people from neighboring Pakistan who want to take in the tourist sites and buy inexpensive Chinese goods. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/718/1/China-Defends-Military-Program/china.html China warned Friday that the military landscape in northeast Asia is getting "more complicated and serious" because of North Korea's nuclear weapons program and tighter defense cooperation between Japan and the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/716/1/The-dragon-crouches/index.html If 2006 established China firmly as the world's fourth-largest economy, it also delivered Beijing the means to discard the late Deng Xiaoping's maxim that the communist country should not take the lead in international affairs until it has grown economically strong. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/714/1/China-In-Africa/index.html How do Islamic analysts view China? What accounts for the sudden interest and commentary on China's counter-terrorism measures in the Muslim majority Xinjiang? Or its Super Power ambitions in Africa? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/710/1/Canada-Chinas-muse-on-ethnic-harmony/index.html Faced with mounting inequality and rising street protests, China is turning to Canada as a source of ideas on how to defuse ethnic conflicts and build a social safety net. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/708/1/Local-Governments-in-Xinjiang-Continue-Religious-Repression-During-Ramadan/CECC.html Local governments in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) continued strict controls in 2006 over the observance of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Local governments reported promoting rules that prevented students and teachers from observing the month-long holiday, which began in late September. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/707/1/Chinas-Uighurs-struggle-to-retain-their-identity/hoten.html Abdel rubbed his clean-shaven chin as he and three friends finished up a dinner of goat soup and noodles. "The government doesn't allow young people here to grow beards," he said in this ancient Muslim city in China's western Xinjiang province. "If you do, they will send you to the lao gai suo (forced labor camps). This is a communist country, and it is scared of Muslims." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/699/1/Development-redefining-Chinas-west/index.html Since 2000, Beijing has poured billions of dollars into its rustic western provinces, leaving local ethnic groups feeling threatened. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/698/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-The-Uighur-Dalai-Lama/pocha.html Rebiya Kadeer has been likened to the Dalai Lama, and the comparison grew more apt when the Uighur (pronounced wee-gur) human rights activist became a close contender for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, an award conferred on the Dalai Lama in 1989. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/683/1/Touching-Off-Our-China-Crisis/Touching-Off-Our-China-Crisis.html On a warm Friday last March, after a hearty breakfast of fish cakes and salad, Huseyin Celil climbed into a car for a ride across the pockmarked streets of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/668/1/Muslim-voices-rising-in-China/voice.html On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/665/1/From-Silk-Road-to-Supermarket-Chinas-Fragrant-Pears/neshput.html Fragrant pears, with exotic provenance and a legendary reputation, have arrived in the United States for the first time after a journey that evokes Marco Polo. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/653/1/Islams-Invisible-Frontier-The-Muslims-of-Chinese-Occupied-East-Turkestan/Islams-Invisible-Frontier-The-Muslims-of-Chinese-Occupied-East-Turkestan.html If I were to announce that a Muslim country, slightly smaller than the size of Iran - but still three times the size of France - blessed with bountiful oil reserves, a rich culture and a long attachment to Islam, was suffering brutal torment, one would justly be disturbed. Perhaps all the more so because one might not know which country I refer to. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/646/1/Pelosi-led-House-seen-not-rocking-boat-on-China/Pelosi-led-House-seen-not-rocking-boat-on-China.html  A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives led by frequent China critic Nancy Pelosi will intensify scrutiny of Chinese trade and human rights practices, but will stop short of confrontation, American and Chinese experts said zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/641/1/Xinjiangs-battle-against-the-desert/Xinjiangs-battle-against-the-desert.html When the city of Korla rose from the Taklamakan Desert in mid-1950s, it was admired as a triumph of human willpower over adverse nature. Thousands of soldiers put the place on the map in China's far west Xinjiang region by digging 600 kilometers of channels to coax underground water to large collective farms. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/638/1/Balkhash-Lake-Turning-Into-Another-Aral/Balkhash-Lake-Turning-Into-Another-Aral.html Lake Balkhash, one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth, is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt throughout Central Asia. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/626/1/China-asserts-grip-on-key-western-province/China-asserts-grip-on-key-western-province.html Mullah Masude, 63, removes his shoes and gingerly navigates an expanse of carpeting in the Jaman mosque's main worship area before climbing a set of rickety steps to the roof. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/620/1/Muslims-feel-the-long-arm-of-Beijing/Muslims-feel-the-long-arm-of-Beijing.html In Xinjiang, which is of strategic importance to China, Uighurs try to maintain their culture despite strict oversight. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/619/1/Chinas-road-to-riches/Chinas-road-to-riches.html Travelling Asia's ancient trade route lets you connect with a storied past and a vibrant present, writes Spencer Wynn zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/616/1/-AMERICAS-ACUPUNCTURE-POINTS/-AMERICAS-ACUPUNCTURE-POINTS.html A noted Chinese theorist on modern warfare, Chang Mengxiong, compared China's form of fighting to "a Chinese boxer with a keen knowledge of vital body points who can bring an opponent to his knees with a minimum of movements". It is like key acupuncture points in ancient Chinese medicine. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/613/1/Rabiya-Kadeer-and-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize/Rabiya-Kadeer-and-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html In 1998, I was eating laghman at a Uyghur ashkhana (eatery) in the Uyghur section of Urumqui. The owner, hearing that I spoke Uyghur, began to talk with me. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/582/1/HU-MOVES-TO-EXERT-ADDED-CONTROL-OVER-PLA/HU-MOVES-TO-EXERT-ADDED-CONTROL-OVER-PLA.html President Hu Jintao has adroitly played the disciplinary and anti-corruption cards to boost his stature in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as well as to exercise control over the top brass. Given that a large-scale reshuffle of the policy-setting Central Military Commission (CMC) is due at the 17th Communist Party Congress next year, officers formerly deemed close to ex-president Jiang Zemin have been currying favor with the current leader. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/580/1/Iran-and-the-OPEC-with-bombs/Iran-and-the-OPEC-with-bombs.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) celebrates its fifth anniversary with a summit of member states' leaders in Shanghai on Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/579/1/Discovering-Chinas-ancient-ribbon-of-highway/Discovering-Chinas-ancient-ribbon-of-highway.html  From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/568/1/Central-Asia-US-Helsinki-Commission-Concerned-About-SCOs-Influence/Central-Asia-US-Helsinki-Commission-Concerned-About-SCOs-Influence.html The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe -- or Helsinki Commission, as it is known in the United States -- held a congressional hearing on September 26 to investigate the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Central Asia, a region where Washington's strategic, political, and economic interests are growing stronger. The United States fears that China and Russia are pulling the region deeper into their sphere of influence, to the exclusion of everyone else. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/565/1/Why-trust-China-in-space/Why-trust-China-in-space---Nation-is-not-that-friendly-on-Earth.html NASA Administrator Michael Griffin departs today for China, as part of a trip that also includes Japan. While this is being described by the space agency as a get acquainted visit, it will doubtless include discussions of how to promote cooperation between China's space program and that of the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/561/1/China-and-the-Middle-East-A-New-Patron-of-Regional-Instability/China-and-the-Middle-East-A-New-Patron-of-Regional-Instability.html The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a relative newcomer to Middle East geopolitics and, as far as U.S. interests are concerned, not a very welcome one. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/558/1/Can-China-win-a-Western-game/Can-China-win-a-Western-game.html  France Yi Liu has spent five long years trying to persuade Europeans that Chinese tomatoes can match the quality of produce ripened in the Provencal sun - and at a lower price. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/551/1/What-to-do-about-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organizations-rising-influence/What-to-do-about-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organizations-rising-influence.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a major vehicle for a Chinese-Russian strategic cooperation, is exerting increasing pressure on US strategic interests in Central Asia. Robust engagement with the SCO by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would offer Washington the best way of containing the group’s rising influence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/542/1/The-Battle-for-Guantanamo/The-Battle-for-Guantanamo.html Col. Mike Bumgarner took over as the warden of Guantánamo Bay in April 2005. He had been hoping to be sent to Iraq; among senior officers of the Army’s military police corps, the job of commanding guards at the American detention camp in Cuba was considered not particularly challenging and somewhat risky to a career. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/541/1/International-Religious-Freedom-Report-2006/International-Religious-Freedom-Report-2006.html International Religious Freedom Report 2006, Released by State Department, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/533/1/CHINA-Would-a-religion-law-help-promote-religious-freedom/CHINA-Would-a-religion-law-help-promote-religious-freedom.html One important characteristic of post-Mao China is the proliferation of formal institutions of governance - not simply physical buildings or government bureaucracies, but also laws and regulations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/531/1/Why-a-rising-China-cant-dominate-Asia/Why-a-rising-China-cant-dominate-Asia.html "China can't dominate Asia; there are too many governments in Asia." This comment by a senior Chinese official during a recent interview in Beijing reflects realities of power that make Chinese leadership in Asia unlikely under foreseeable circumstances. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/506/1/The-Dragon-Looks-West-China-and-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization/The-Dragon-Looks-West-China-and-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization.html In 1996, five countries—China, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan—formed an organiza­tion, the Shanghai Five, to resolve border disputes among its members. With the addition of Uzbekistan in 2001, it became the Shanghai Cooperation Organi­zation (SCO), a grouping of Russia, China, and a number of under-developed and developing nations with little to bind them together save geography. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/502/1/Chinas-Scramble-for-Energy/Chinas-Scramble-for-Energy.html With a rapidly expanding economy, China doesn't have enough of its own natural resources to cover its growing energy needs. Beijng is trying to close the gap by increasing its imports and by betting on nuclear energy and renewables. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/500/1/The-second-liberation-of-Tibet/The-second-liberation-of-Tibet.html A rather strange piece of news appeared recently in the press: a German Google Earth user spotted a military base in China’s Northern plains...... zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/498/1/Islam-with-Chinese-characteristics/Islam-with-Chinese-characteristics.html The muezzin sounds the evening call to prayer. White skullcaps glint in the fading brightness of the setting sun as the faithful make their way into the mosque. The shush of whispered "salam alaikums" fills the hall. Outside, the mosque's minarets stretch up into the sky; a single crescent moon decorates the top of the green dome. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/495/1/Letter-from-China-The-patience-of-China-vs-the-patience-of-Tibet/Letter-from-China-The-patience-of-China-vs-the-patience-of-Tibet.html China There are no boundary markers at the edge of this town to signal to travelers that they are entering a different world, but the feeling could not be more distinct even if there were. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/491/1/Halfway-to-Chinas-Collapse/Halfway-to-Chinas-Collapse.html The Coming Collapse of China, my book, predicts the fall of the Chinese Communist Party by the end of this decade. We are now at the halfway point between its publication in 2001 and that time. So is China's leading political organization on schedule for a fall? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/488/1/Why-India-will-overtake-China/Why-India-will-overtake-China.html  On behalf of thousands of peasants from his native village, Ma Wenlin, a self-taught lawyer in northern China, sued the local government in 1997 to recover taxes that had been illegally assessed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/476/1/Chinas-Uyghur-Muslims/Chinas-Uyghur-Muslims.html Devotional chants ring out all around me. The walls of this ancient mosque resonate in harmony with these chants, rewarding the hundreds of people deep in prayer with an atmosphere of surreal calm. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/474/1/Trying-times-for-journalists-in-China/Trying-times-for-journalists-in-China.html With the Chinese government promising foreign journalists unprecedented freedom in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, the trials of Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong serve as a reminder of the reality on the ground. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/473/1/Sizing-up-the-dragons-miracle/Sizing-up-the-dragons-miracle.html      On May 10, 1869, a hastily arranged, Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah, marked the opening of the World’s First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/463/1/XINJIANG-Notices-show-religious-activity-restrictions/XINJIANG-Notices-show-religious-activity-restrictions.html Among the casualties of the 'war on terror' are the largely forgotten Muslim peoples of Xinjiang. This huge area is almost as large as the whole of Western Europe and was traditionally inhabited by the Muslim Uighurs, Kazaks, and some smaller groups. However, the last two decades have seen a massive influx of Han Chinese migrants and the native Muslim population is in danger of being outnumbered in its own heartland. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/460/1/Fruit-of-the-boom-threatens-to-push-Chinas-economy-out-of-control/Fruit-of-the-boom-threatens-to-push-Chinas-economy-out-of-control.html Few views of China's spectacular economic growth could be more impressive than the one offered by the property company Tomson Riviera in Shanghai. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/455/1/Japan-Russia-New-approach-to-disputes/Japan-Russia-New-approach-to-disputes.html It was cruel irony that the tragic killing of a Japanese fisherman by Russian security forces in the disputed Northern Territories took place just as a group of Japanese and Russian scholars and former government officials were meeting with a group of Alanders to discuss possible creative solutions to this long-standing territorial dispute. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/454/1/How-an-exile-defies-China/How-an-exile-defies-China.html As the Olympics near, Beijing is ever more concerned to check the Dalai Lama's influence zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/452/1/Chinas-Time-for-Choosing/Chinas-Time-for-Choosing.html China’s latest United Nations veto threat should convince even the most generous diplomat that Beijing is part of the problem in North Korea, not a “partner in a solution. If it ever hopes to get a solution, Washington should now make Beijing’s policy toward North Korea a vital test of China’s ability and desire to be a “responsible stakeholder in the international system. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/446/1/Quick-change-in-China/Quick-change-in-China.html I'd never planned to fly in China.Flying here was for the seasoned masochist, or those with a goal of a nervous breakdown. But there I was, stuffed knees to chest, within the ridiculously scant space of a Chinese airliner. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/445/1/China-s-Uyghur-Problem-and-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization/China-s-Uyghur-Problem-and-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization.html In early 2006, the U.S. released to Albania five Chinese citizens, all of them Uyghur Muslim detainees, formerly held in the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, whom they had determined to be “non-combatants among at least 22 other Uyghurs from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/438/1/-A-symphony-of-civilizations/-A-symphony-of-civilizations.html It is the studio of an artist in the 17th-century Netherlands. In the foreground there are a tapestry, an empty chair and a table. A seated painter is trying to catch the essence of his model, a demure young woman, Clio, the Greek muse of history. On the wall, as a backdrop, is a large map of the Seventeen Provinces printed in Amsterdam. The scene is quiet but inspiring. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/437/1/The-Semantics-of-Terror-Ian-Williams/The-Semantics-of-Terror.html he Nation -- What do Nelson Mandela, Michael Collins, Archbishop Makarios, Menachim Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Shamir, Eamon DeValera and Jomo Kenyatta have in common?  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/431/1/Take-an-epic-journey-on-Chinas-Silk-Road/Take-an-epic-journey-on-Chinas-Silk-Road.html From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/419/1/Pakistans-port-in-troubled-waters/Pakistans-port-in-troubled-waters.html The port at Gwadar is without doubt currently Pakistan's flagship infrastructure project. A source of great pride for the Pakistani government, its much anticipated inauguration as the country's energy hub has been twice delayed and it is envisaged to become operational by year's end. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/427/1/-Congressional-letter-on-Kadeer-children/Congressional-letter-on-Kadeer-children.html The U.S. Congress is particularly concerned with the recent arrest of Ms. Rebiya Kadeer's three sons and the terrible treatment of her relatives in East Turkistan. The following letter has been written by Congressman Henry Hyde and Congressman Tom Lantos and signed by 72 Congressmen and Congresswomen requesting their release from Chinese President Hu Jintao. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/412/1/Hopes-for-change-hung-on-08-Olympics/Hopes-for-change-hung-on-08-Olympics.html Only two years from Tuesday, China, one of the world's oldest civilizations, hosts the Olympic Summer Games, one of the world's most prestigious events – for the first time. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/408/1/CHINAS-ENERGY-ENGAGEMENT-WITH-LATIN-AMERICA/CHINAS-ENERGY-ENGAGEMENT-WITH-LATIN-AMERICA.html The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is thirsty for energy. From the late-1970s to the mid-1990s, it has managed to quadruple its economy and in the process of doing so, became a net petroleum importer in 1993. China’s dependency on foreign energy has only continued to grow as it now imports approximately 40 percent of its consumed oil. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/407/1/CHALLENGES-AND-OPPORTUNITIES-IN-SINO-DPRK-ENERGY-COOPERATION/CHALLENGES-AND-OPPORTUNITIES-IN-SINO-DPRK-ENERGY-COOPERATION.html For over five decades, Pyongyang has attempted—and failed—to develop domestic sources of petroleum. Its inability to do so has forced Pyongyang to rely almost entirely upon crude oil imported from other countries. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/406/1/CHINAS-DEBATE-OVER-VIETNAMS-REFORMS/CHINAS-DEBATE-OVER-VIETNAMS-REFORMS.html A debate is raging within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over whether it should emulate the relatively bold structural reforms that the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) had introduced earlier this year. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/405/1/On-a-Peoples-Train-from-Urumqi-to-Beijing/On-a-Peoples-Train-from-Urumqi-to-Beijing.html It was a slow day in the railway ticket office in downtown Urumqi, and as I walked up to the counter, where there was no line, I was feeling lucky. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/402/1/Angela-Merkels-Policy-Toward-China/quotAngela-Merkels-Policy-Toward-Chinaquot.html The first visit of Angela Merkel as the German chancellor to China in May 2006 revealed some significant issues in Sino-German relations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/393/1/CHINAS-EMERGING-ENERGY-NEXUS-WITH-CENTRAL-ASIA/CHINAS-EMERGING-ENERGY-NEXUS-WITH-CENTRAL-ASIA.html China's quest for energy security has driven it to the greater Caspian basin, a region whose resources were once the proprietary domain of the Soviet Union but are now available to the highest bidder. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/392/1/The-Chinese-Politburo-Hits-the-Books/THE-CHINESE-POLITBURO-HITS-THE-BOOKS.html Understanding the inner workings of China’s Politburo has always been a difficult challenge for observers. Pervasive secrecy has forced scholars to rely on dubious articles in Hong Kong newspapers—usually based on anonymous, questionable sources—to speculate upon the concerns of the Chinese leadership. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/388/1/ESCAPE-TO-HELL-Fleeing-China-Landing-in-Guantanamo/ESCAPE-TO-HELL-Fleeing-China-Landing-in-Guantanamo.html In 2000, five men left their homes in northern China to escape the prospect of torture and imprisonment. They dreamed of a future in the United States. Caught up in America's war on terror along the way, they instead ended up in Guantanamo. It's been six years since they last saw their families. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/387/1/Kazakhstan-Environmentalists-Say-China-Misusing-Cross-Border-Rivers/Kazakhstan-Environmentalists-Say-China-Misusing-Cross-Border-Rivers.html Environmentalists in Central Asia and Russia are concerned about China's use of water from the Ili and Irtysh rivers. Both rivers originate in China and flow into Kazakhstan, while the Irtysh continues on into Russia. China has been using more and more of the water as the population grows in China's western provinces. Officials in Beijing say they plan to divert more water from both rivers to develop the oil industry in western China. The plan seems to be fueling tension between the two countries. Environmentalists warn that China's overuse of the river water may lead to an ecological catastrophe for Kazakhstan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/385/1/Chinas-magical-road-of-heaven/Chinas-magical-road-of-heaven.html For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/380/1/Gitmo-How-to-Fix-It/Gitmo-How-to-Fix-It.html The Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld totals 185 pages and can be summarized in two words: Start over. If the Bush Administration wants to try terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay in special military tribunals, it can't just declare them legal--it needs to work with the other branches of government to make them so. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/379/1/The-return-of-Chinas-censors/The-return-of-Chinas-censors.html Trying to rein in reporters straining at the leash of censorship, Beijing is drafting a law that will impose heavy fines for unauthorized news of big disasters and social unrest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/370/1/Chinas-Islamic-Frontier/Chinas-Islamic-Frontier.html On June 27 the government of Uzbekistan transferred Huseyincan Celil, now a Canadian citizen, to Chinese custody to await execution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/368/1/-Hu-Jintao-and-the-new-China/Hu-Jintao-and-the-new-China.html The biggest factor determining global stability over the next 20 years, simply put, is China. For good or bad, it will shape the world. If everything goes well, China will be integrated in the developed world and will become one of its engines, if not the main engine. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/367/1/THE-QINGHAI-TIBET-RAILWAY-CHINAS-NEW-INSTRUMENT-FOR-ASSIMILATION/THE-QINGHAI-TIBET-RAILWAY-CHINAS-NEW-INSTRUMENT-FOR-ASSIMILATION.html The inauguration of the Qinghai-Tibet railway on July 1 marks a watershed in the Chinese leadership’s decades-long effort to tame the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/361/1/A-Bankruptcy-Lawyer-at-Gitmo/A-Bankruptcy-Lawyer-at-Gitmo.html Sabin Willett leads a double life as a lawyer. Most days, he works on bankruptcy litigation in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen. He likes the work. Really, he says, sitting in a conference room with a sweeping view of Boston harbor. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/355/1/PLA-DOCTRINE-ON-SECURING-ENERGY-RESOURCES-IN-CENTRAL-ASIA/PLA-DOCTRINE-ON-SECURING-ENERGY-RESOURCES-IN-CENTRAL-ASIA.html For the past few years, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has reorganized the army into combined arms battle groups in order to perform this mission, which it has labeled the doctrine of "active defense." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/352/1/CHINAS-ISLAMIC-HERITAGE/CHINAS-ISLAMIC-HERITAGE.html In this issue we focus on the Islamic heritage in China and its relevance to understanding both the evolution of Chinese history and culture, and to appreciating the complex, multi-ethnic influences on modern China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/349/1/HRC-WS-on-the-Situation-in-Xinjiang-Uyghur-Autonomous-Region-China/HRC-WS-on-the-Situation-in-Xinjiang-Uyghur-Autonomous-Region-China.html Written Statement by the International Federation of the Protection of the Rights of Ethnic, Religious, Linguistic and Other Minorities (IFPRERLOM), a non-governmental organization on the Roster zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/347/1/Born-of-Americas-Indifference-Eurasian-Alliance-Comes-of-Age/Born-of-Americas-Indifference-Eurasian-Alliance-Comes-of-Age.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the only major international organization from which the United States is excluded. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/346/1/AFTER-SHANGHAI-GEOPOLITICAL-SHIFTS-IN-EURASIA/AFTER-SHANGHAI-GEOPOLITICAL-SHIFTS-IN-EURASIA.html Central Asian states shuddered as Russia and China embraced a new friend at the June 15 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian leader was the only representative from a non-member state (Iran is an SCO observer) invited to deliver a major address, and, true to form, his anti-U.S. rhetoric rang loud and clear. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/340/1/Out-of-Africa/Out-of-Africa.html China makes more than its share of Orwellian announcements. But its call last week for "African countries to improve democracy and the rule of law" falls into a class of its own. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/331/1/COMPETING-INTERESTS-DIVIDE-US-CHINA-POLICY/COMPETING-INTERESTS-DIVIDE-US-CHINA-POLICY.html The National Security Strategy of the United States (NSS) released in March states, "The United States will welcome the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that cooperates with us to address common challenges and mutual interests." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/329/1/CHINA-AND-THE-SHANGHAI-COOPERATION-ORGANIZATION-AT-FIVE/CHINA-AND-THE-SHANGHAI-COOPERATION-ORGANIZATION-AT-FIVE.html It is an established fact among U.S. officials: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is China's primary multilateral instrument to implement its openly anti-U.S. policy in Central Asia zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/330/1/CHINAS-BOOMING-ENERGY-RELATIONS-WITH-AFRICA/CHINAS-BOOMING-ENERGY-RELATIONS-WITH-AFRICA.html With continuous economic growth averaging an astonishing annual rate of 10 percent over the past quarter century, China has transformed its landscape, become one of the largest economic powerhouses on earth, created development opportunities for its trading partners around the world and, in the process, generated huge demands for new sources of energy and other resources. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/328/1/The-Dark-Side-of-Chinas-Rise/The-Dark-Side-of-Chinas-Rise.html China’s economic boom has dazzled investors and captivated the world. But beyond the new high-rises and churning factories lie rampant corruption, vast waste, and an elite with little interest in making things better. Forget political reform. China’s future will be decay, not democracy. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/327/1/Long-March-to-Nowhere/Long-March-to-Nowhere.html Three of these four critics share a common belief—they see China rising, uninterrupted. For Albert Keidel, China is ruled not by a decaying Communist Party, but an “agile, energetic government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/322/1/Ancient-Voices-Modern-Lives/Ancient-Voices-Modern-Lives.html A journalist draws on his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer to depict China today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/315/1/The-US-Challenge-at-the-Shanghai-Summit/The-US-Challenge-at-the-Shanghai-Summit.html On June 15 members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will gather for their annual meeting at the birthplace of this Eurasian bloc—Shanghai. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/314/1/The-Most-Dangerous-Unknown-Pact/The-Most-Dangerous-Unknown-Pact.html The Shanghai Cooperative Organization is the "most dangerous organization that Americans have never heard of," according to the director of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Christopher Brown. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/320/1/SHANGHAI-SUMMIT-INDIAN-MISGIVINGS/SHANGHAI-SUMMIT-INDIAN-MISGIVINGS.html India will be the only country, amongst the members and observers of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), not to be represented at the level of the head of state or Government at the summit of the SCO being held at Shanghai from  June 15, 2006. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/301/1/Does-The-Road-To-Shanghai-Go-Through-Tehran/Does-The-Road-To-Shanghai-Go-Through-Tehran.html Chinese interest in Central Asian energy resources is also growing. And the United States continues to maintain close, energy-inflected ties with Kazakhstan and a military base in Kyrgyzstan. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/300/1/Chinas-Growing-Involvement-in-Latin-America/Chinas-Growing-Involvement-in-Latin-America.html China's forays into Latin America are part of its grand strategy to acquire "comprehensive national power" to become a "global great power that is second to none." zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/274/1/Report-2006-The-state-of-the-worlds-human-rights---Asia-Pacific--China/Regional-Overview---Asia-Pacific.html The Amnesty International Report 2006 is a comprehensive document which provides a global overview of the state of the world's human rights. The report, which covers 150 countries, documents human rights issues of concern to Amnesty International during 2005 and reflects the organization’s activities during the year to promote human rights and to campaign against specific human rights abuses. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/414/1/Petite-Crested-Dinosaur-Was-Early-Ancestor-of-T-Rex/Petite-Crested-Dinosaur-Was-Early-Ancestor-of-T-Rex.html Paleontologists working in western China have unearthed the remains of a new species of dinosaur that is an early member of the family of dinosaurs that culminated in Tyrannosaurus rex. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/137/1/CECCs-2005-Annual-Report/CECCs-2005-Annual-Report.html The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has released its 2005 Annual Report. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1659/1/The-Impact-of-Chinese-Communist-Party-Policy-on-Uyghurs-past-present-and-future/index.html Presented at the Conference organized by UCA on May 15, 2005 at University of Toronto by:  Prof. Charles Burton zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/136/1/quotDecline-of-the-US-as-a-Superpowerquot-Claim-Authors-of-Chinese-PLAs/quotDecline-of-the-US-as-a-Superpowerquot-Claim-Authors-of-Chinese-PLAs.html Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in the United States, the authors of the seminal 1999 Chinese People's Liberation Army text on 21st Century "asymetrical" warfare, titled "Unrestricted Warfare," were interviewed in the September 13, 2001 People's Republic of China-owned Ta Kung Pao newspaper in Hong Kong. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/138/1/China-Asks-for-US-Support-to-Combat-Taiwan-and-Dalai-Lama/China-Asks-for-US-Support-to-Combat-Taiwan-and-Dalai-Lama.html China has granted one million dollars to bolster the armed forces of Tajikistan, which neighbors Afghanistan, Agence France Presse reports. Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Hairullayev said the assistance was delivered during a visit to Dushambe, the Tajik capitol, by a senior Chinese defense team. The money has been earmarked for military exercises, education and rearmament, the minister said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/139/1/China-Eyes-Silk-Road-All-the-Way-to-the-US/China-Eyes-Silk-Road-All-the-Way-to-the-US.html At first sight, it looks like a new beginning of the Great Game to control Central Asia, and from there the whole Eurasian continent. At a closer look, though, things appear quite different, as if China is now trying to gain a second sea rim on the shores of Europe, facing the American East Coast. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/140/1/China-Goes-West-Laudable-Development-Ethnic-Provocation/hina-is-embarking-on-an-ambitious-project-to-develop-its-vast-western-regions-for-centuries-the-poo.html hina is embarking on an ambitious project to develop its vast western regions, for centuries the poorest and least densely inhabited areas of the country. The overt motivation is an economic one, specifically the relief of poverty. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0800