http://www.uyghuramerican.org en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org N/A zerepshan@gmail.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:24:02 -0800 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6737/1/Why-India-backed-Syria-vote/index.html The veto by Russia and China of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement against his regime is not based on an objective assessment of the ground situation in Syria. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6727/1/Is-China-All-Its-Cracked-Up-to-Be/index.html How many of you who peruse newspapers and websites like this one regularly have concluded that this will be the Chinese century -- a Pax Sinica, which supplants the Pax Americana of the last six decades? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6723/1/What-Is-behind-Hu-Jintaos-Caution-against-Western-Cultural-Infiltration/index.html In an article published in early January 2012 in the Communist Party policy magazine Qiushi (求是), Chinese President Hu Jintao cautioned against Western culture infiltrating and subverting China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6720/1/PM-Well-Positioned-to-Raise-Rights-in-China-/index.html As Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to talk energy in China, the Chinese regime faces increasing unrest that could give Canada a strong position to push for human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6713/1/Engaging-Beijing-With-Universal-Values-/index.html Mao championed "the death of God." Churches were banned. After his death, restrictions were loosened. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6712/1/Stopping-Genocide-The-Responsibility-to-Protect/index.html Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6710/1/Can-China-Control-Social-Media/index.html Chinese state media bid 2011 adieu with a steady drumbeat for name registration on Weibo, the most popular micro-blogging site. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6709/1/Visit-of-Pakistan-Army-Chief-to-China/index.html “Chin-Pak dosti zandabad!” – this closing remark by Liu Jian, in an article in the Pakistan daily `The Nation` on January 10, 2011, is a telling statement about China-Pakistan relations during the past year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6701/1/Guantanamo-turns-ten-/index.html Jonathan Hafetz discusses the three stages of Guantanamo's life as the 'flagship prison' in the 'war on terror'. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6687/1/Chinas-Uighur-Bogeyman-/index.html When seven alleged kidnappers and one police officer were killed in a confrontation in Xinjiang last week, China's official media said those responsible were "violent terrorists" with possible links to "a surge in religious extremism" in the area. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei accused them of pursuing "holy war." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6657/1/Chinas-cyberwar/index.html CHINA IS waging a quiet, mostly invisible but massive cyberwar against the United States, aimed at stealing its most sensitive military and economic secrets and obtaining the ability to sabotage vital infrastructure. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6654/1/Kirk-Relies-on-Chinese-Propaganda-to-Assess-Uyghurs/index.html Senator Mark Kirk is pushing for the U.S. to engage in deeper strategic cooperation with China on drugs, terrorism, and Afghanistan. Speaking yesterday at the Foreign Policy Initiative’s annual conference at the Newseum, the Illinois Republican argued that the U.S. should build a supply line to Afghanistan through Urumqi, Xinjiang, the area known to its Uyghur and other Muslim inhabitants as East Turkistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6652/1/Lawyer-Laments-Death-Of-Habeas-Corpus-For-Guantanamo-Prisoners--OpEd/index.html Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, "As Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guantánamo Prisoners, Will the Supreme Court Act?" in which I covered the latest grim news from the US courts regarding the Guantánamo prisoners' habeas corpus petitions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6649/1/Chinas-Latest-Legal-Crackdown-/index.html A proposed rewrite of the criminal code would entrench the practice of enforced disappearances. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6647/1/Its-time-to-push-for-a-reformed-China/index.html Economic hard times have led to strikes and riots around the world. We have become accustomed to seeing photos of protesters with economic grievances throughout Europe and recently here at home with the Occupy Wall Street movement. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6626/1/Jayadeva-Ranade-Beijings-stunt-was-ill-timed/index.html Beijing’s unwillingness to make serious efforts to settle the border issue with India was clearly borne out by its petulance exhibited at the convening of a four-day religious international conference of Buddhists in Delhi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6623/1/WANG-China-made-me-do-it/index.html Will Obama endorse the one-child policy next? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6616/1/The-USA-is-here-to-stay/index.html China's extraordinary economic growth in recent decades has led to considerable speculation about whether its rise will continue to be peaceful and the impact it will have on the existing world order. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6613/1/How-China-Can-Defeat-America/index.html WITH China’s growing influence over the global economy, and its increasing ability to project military power, competition between the United States and China is inevitable. Leaders of both countries assert optimistically that the competition can be managed without clashes that threaten the global order. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6609/1/Asia-finds-voice-in-test-of-wills-with-China-/index.html It was a test of wills. The government in Beijing wanted to discourage the leaders of 17 other countries from discussing a sensitive matter of Chinese territorial claims at their meeting at the weekend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6604/1/It-is-freedom-that-scares-China-not-US-troops-/index.html WHAT really worries the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, is that the shared US-Australian values outlined in your editorial ("Obama's successful visit had wise words on China", 18/11) are the antithesis of those of the corrupt regime that rules China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6581/1/China-Might-Have-Over-Reached-Itself-/index.html There are times when seemingly unrelated anecdotes are more revealing than reams of data. This just might be one of those times, when it comes to U.S. relations with China, China's economic future, and the geopolitics of Chinese economic expansion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6568/1/Analysis-Chinese-financial-help-could-carry-risk-for-Europe/index.html As a cash-strapped Europe scrambles to woo China's support for a financial rescue package, human rights groups and dissidents are warning that in taking such help, the West will sacrifice some leverage over China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6565/1/DEBATE-PREP-What-if-China-Changes/index.html The political debate over China seems familiar because they've been on the political table for years.  Is China taking American jobs?  How cooperative is the People's Republic of China (PRC) on issues like nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran?  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6562/1/In-China-putting-a-price-on-democracy/index.html CHINESE AUTHORITIES must have thought they had cornered the dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who is renowned for his avant-garde productions and for his willingness to speak up for human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6547/1/Bollywood-Indias-Brahmastra/index.html If two countries that are part of a global supply chain like Dell's are unlikely to go to battle,as Tom Friedman, or some other wise man once said, what about countries that are part of Bollywood's supply chain? Teeth-grinding and sabre-rattling notwithstanding, would they step back from a big fight? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6546/1/Theres-a-mountain-still-to-be-climbed-/index.html In 1975 the first five students sent by the People's Republic of China started their studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, closely watched by the Chinese embassy to see they didn't pick up any incorrect thoughts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6468/1/Russias-Eastern-Anxieties/index.html Traffic around Tiananmen Square was even worse than usual last week as President Vladimir Putin rolled through town to cement the supposedly flowering Chinese-Russian relationship.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6456/1/Russia-China-its-over-to-you-/index.html Believe it - the human cry for freedom and democracy is universal. In Tunisia, what began as a single man's protest, so desperate that he set himself on fire, became a symbol of the yearning for democracy. We have since been moved by the courage of citizens who sought what is naturally theirs in Egypt, Libya and, right now, Syria. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6454/1/Forget-about-morality-my-China/index.html The waves of moral indignation that swept through South Africa's righteous wing over the Dalai Lama's visa last week made me wonder whether morality is actually worth fighting for. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6453/1/Chinas-Century-Long-Identity-Crisis-/index.html The Chinese Communist Party invokes the movements that toppled the Qing empire 100 years ago today to portray itself as the culmination of a struggle to build a nation-state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6433/1/Showdown-in-the-South-China-Sea/index.html Beijing's belligerence on the oil-rich Spratly Islands issue poses threats to the region zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6432/1/Europes-political-rejection-of-China-is-politically-correct/index.html There are times when the only possible response to something an official (usually a politician) says is incredulity — both of the claim itself and that the speaker could ever believe it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6416/1/Do-we-have-a-China-policy/index.html It's increasingly clear that the Obama administration has no coherent policy on Iran (sanctions aren't working, so what next?), the Arab Spring or China. Our muddled approach toward China is nowhere more evident than in the administration's stance on the sale of F-16s to Taiwan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6415/1/Why-are-people-disappearing-in-China/index.html Foreign countries should resist China's efforts to make them complicit in the abuse of human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6412/1/Chinas-Double-Game-on-Terrorism-/index.html Like Tibetans, Uighurs seek freedom from oppression, but Beijing calls them extremists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6394/1/Walking-Out-on-China/index.html YUNNAN PROVINCE, in southwestern China, has long been the exit point for Chinese who yearn for a new life outside the country.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6385/1/Rights-Concerns-Stalk-Terror-Fight-/index.html As the U.S. marks the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, Asia's counter-terrorism campaign faces human rights questions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6370/1/Chinas-Rise-Isnt-Our-Demise/index.html I FIRST visited China in 1979, a few months after our countries normalized relations. China was just beginning to remake its economy, and I was in the first Senate delegation to witness this evolution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6354/1/Global-Insights-China-Ponders-US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan/index.html As part of a conference hosted by Beijing University, I spent last week conducting interviews and participating in roundtables with Chinese academics and government officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6328/1/Fighting-Back-Against-Chinas-Scholars-Blacklist/index.html Obtaining a Chinese visa can be a challenging game of political chess for academics and activists perceived to have been overly critical of the regime. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6321/1/A-monumental-insult-to-Dr-King-/index.html God and the weather willing, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial soon will be dedicated amid moving speeches, joyous hoopla and inevitable controversy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6319/1/Stop-the-presses-China-plays-all-sides/index.html "China respects the choice of the Libyan people and hopes that the situation there will quickly return to stability and that people's lives can return to normal," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6316/1/Hunting-Uighurs-Across-Asia/index.html China outsources human rights abuses to its neighbors. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6291/1/Chinese-People-Should-Listen-to-Their-Hearts-Not-the-Propaganda-of-the-Chinese-Communist-Party-/index.html The Chinese people have the great fortune of possessing a long and illustrious civilization. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6285/1/US-Chinas-road-from-bitter-foes-to-wary-rivals/index.html As we watch U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hold talks with his Chinese hosts this week, it is apt to look back at the precarious state of China-U.S. relations four decades ago and how far they have come along. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6284/1/Tread-carefully-with-China-rhetoric/index.html An unreal public debate has built up around Australia's defence policy and alliance with the United States, spooked by perceptions that the biggest trading partner of nearly every country in the region is rapidly morphing into a simultaneous military threat. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6277/1/Kissinger-Sings-Convergence-Theme-With-Chinas-quotRed-Songquot-Choir/index.html Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been riding the promotion circuit since his latest book, On China, was released on May 17 by Penguin Press. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6267/1/Chinas-Attack-on-Religion/index.html A Tibetan monk set himself on fire Monday to protest the lack of religious freedom in China, the second such protest in five months. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6251/1/South-China-Sea-Its-not-Beijings-lake/index.html China is flexing its maritime muscles again. Last week, the state newspaper People's Daily darkly warned of "due consequences" if Beijing is challenged in the South China Sea. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6244/1/China-Unrest-In-Xinjiang--Analysis/index.html Incidents of violence in Xinjiang at the end of July have once again brought attention to the ethnic unrest in one of China’s largest provinces, where the Muslim Uighur ethnic group forms 41.5 per cent of the total population. The latest incident took place in Kashgar, the province’s second largest city where Uighurs make up 80 per cent of the population. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6220/1/Terrorism-in-China-/index.html When our erstwhile American allies accuse us of harbouring terrorists, it no longer comes as a surprise. Similar accusations from China, whom we consider a true friend, carry an additional sting. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6180/1/What-about-the-whole-Communist-thing/index.html So John Baird went to China and everybody wrung their hands. What about human rights, minister? What about the Chinese people under the Communist jackboot? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6169/1/Stand-up-for-our-values-with-China/index.html One of the best things about these Conservatives, in their first years in power, was their willingness to be slightly more honest about China (and other authoritarian regimes, such as Iran and Burma) than their Liberal predecessors. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6152/1/Why-is-China-afraid-of-the-Dalai-Lama/index.html “If China overnight adopted a democratic system, I might have some reservations.. . . If central authority collapsed, there could be a chaotic situation, and that’s in no one’s interest.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6131/1/The-Trust-Gap-in-US-China-Relations/index.html That Washington has begun to take a more realistic approach to China's rise is a positive development. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6109/1/Greater-freedom-not-control-boosts-Chinas-prospects/index.html IN his speech marking the Chinese Communist Party's 90th anniversary, Hu Jintao made one point clear above all: "Success in China hinges on the party." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6081/1/quotSunday-Bloody-Sundayquot-by-UAA-President-Alim-Seytoff/index.html As a Uyghur, an indigenous people of Chinese-occupied East Turkestan, who have a splendid music and song tradition, I just love great music and songs. Not only do I enjoy great music and songs of the classical Uyghur Twelve Mukam, I also enjoy Western classical music and opera. Beethoven is amazing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6071/1/Chinas-Communist-Party----The-90th-Anniversary-of-Propaganda-Opinion/index.html If propaganda were music, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would be a symphony. But it's not. If CCP hype and censorship were peeled back, behind flattering copy would be disturbing trends rooted in CCP policies that are demotivating or motivating the wrong behaviors needed for healthy economic growth. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6070/1/Chinas-Communist-Party-adaptation-survival/index.html The Chinese Communist Party celebrates the 90th anniversary of its founding today. Over the last couple of weeks we have seen literally hundreds of photos of the preparations, and I've kept hold of a few that have caught my eye. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6067/1/Keep-up-pressure-over-human-rights/index.html Sir, The problem with recent UK policy towards China is not that human rights concerns have been given too much attention, but too little (“Wen rails at Cameron’s criticism”, report June 28).  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6064/1/Chinas-Communist-Party-at-90/index.html Nationwide ceremonies and a deluge of media coverage have been mobilized by China’s ruling Communist Party to mark its 90th anniversary today. But all the hoopla cannot conceal the party’s insecure state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6040/1/A-US-role-in-the-South-China-Sea/index.html PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario was in Washington last week for a rather specific purpose: to seek U.S. support in his country’s growing territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6035/1/Mending-fences-with-neighbours/index.html The recently resumed dialogue with two of India’s most significant neighbours--China and Pakistan--reflects New Delhi’s earnestness in mending fences in its immediate neighbourhood zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6019/1/Does-Chinas-use-of-collective-punishment-explain-Ai-Weiweis-silence/index.html It is strange sight indeed to see Ai Weiwei – a man never short of something to say before his detention on April 3 – so uncharacteristically muzzled. He’s like a bear in a cage. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6016/1/Paul-Vallely-A-welcome-move-but-thousands-remain-political-prisoners/index.html One man has been freed. Ai Weiwei, China's most famous living artist, has been released from jail. His offence, according to the Beijing police department, was tax evasion.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6015/1/India-can-remain-observer/index.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which was established in 2000, has evolved to become a potentially major player in the Central Asian region including Afghanistan and Iran. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6007/1/Danger-at-sea/index.html China's surprisingly aggressive assertion of "indisputable sovereignty" over the South China Sea has startled governments around the region, and puts the emerging superpower on a collision course with its partners in the region as well as the interests of the other, long-established superpower, the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5964/1/Ethnic-tensions-heat-up-in-China/index.html Looking at the si­ze of the countries and the size of their population, it is co­mmon practice to see India and China as similarly complex entities. All too often, it is overlooked that the Republic of India is immensely more diverse than the People’s Republic of China (PRC). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5959/1/Media-and-Governance-Like-Oil-and-Water/index.html IN A JUNE 1 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Xinhua News Agency President Li Congjun advocated for a "media U.N." that would oversee news organizations across the globe in what he believes should be a new system that will "ensure openness and transparency" and promote "balanced, just and rational" media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5958/1/Balochistan-Greater-realism-in-China--Iran/index.html Independently of each other, China and Iran seem to be developing doubts in their mind about the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces to restore normalcy in Balochistan and put down the Baloch freedom struggle. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5957/1/Chinas-rise-asset-or-liability/index.html Acrophobia is certainly one of many traits that he inherited from his father Kim Il-sung. Nothing but acrophobia can explain why North Korean leader Kim Jong-il travelled about 6,000 kilometers on a rattling train in today’s busy world. Few national leaders would do so. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5938/1/Chinas-Troubled-Neighbors/index.html Appropriately, the meeting straddled the anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen massacre. Defense ministers and top brass from the United States, China and a host of lesser regional powers were in Singapore for meetings known as the Shangri-La Dialogue. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5936/1/L-Gordon-Crovitz-Taking-on-Chinas-Blue-Army/index.html When the founders of Google defined its mission as “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” they didn’t have in mind becoming a test case for what the world knows about China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5932/1/China-has-another-way-to-defuse-ethnic-strife-/index.html Rising ethnic tensions in Inner Mongolia, a region where  relations between Han Chinese and Mongolians have been relatively calm for years, must have rattled the political nerves in Beijing already frayed by (exaggerated) fears of a Chinese-style jasmine revolution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5913/1/Commentary-Tiananmen-Square-legacy-lingers/index.html Few images have seared the mind like the footage of a lone and unarmed man in white, standing before a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square. On that day in 1989, thousands of civilians, mostly students and intellectuals, gathered in peaceful assembly for democracy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5891/1/Red-Ghost-Over-China-/index.html Despite a huge police presence, protests continue in Inner Mongolia's provincial capital of Hohhot as ethnic Mongolians vent their anger with Party cadres over environmental problems and other issues. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5881/1/When-Can-the-Chinese-Expect-Their-Arab-Spring-Jeffrey-Goldberg/index.html Hillary Clinton doesn't make mistakes. Let's place to the side her unhappy 2008 run for the Democratic presidential nomination, during which, as they say, mistakes were made. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5862/1/China-Breeds-Chaos/index.html Assisting Islamabad at this point shows just how responsible an international player Beijing is. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5854/1/Will-China-have-an-Arab-Spring/index.html I just arrived in Cairo, perhaps the country changed most so far by the “Arab spring” pro-democracy movements sweeping across the Middle East, and it got me thinking about the future of authoritarian regimes back home in Asia – and most of all, China.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5821/1/Rebuilding-a-United-Front-on-China-Rights-/index.html The U.S. and European Union can push for human rights protections in China if they work together again. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5807/1/The-world-must-speak-up-over-the-detention-of-Ai-Weiwei/index.html Just because China is a super-power doesn’t mean we should be afraid of criticising it, writes Boris Johnson. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5798/1/A-founding-document-for-a-new-China/index.html Over the past five Sundays, more than 100 members of the Shouwang Church in Beijing have been detained to prevent them from meeting. It is a confrontation between state and conscience with broad implications for the future of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5797/1/Ai-Weiwei-and-Chinas-assault-on-truth/index.html Beijing voices support for human rights while kidnapping dissidents zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5796/1/EDITORIAL-The-Great-Firewall-of-China/index.html When it comes to the Internet, the People's Republic of China (PRC) would rather be safe than sorry. Beijing is taking new steps to make certain the social networking-fueled contagion of freedom that is sweeping the Arab world will not penetrate mainland China’s great firewall. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5789/1/Chinese-Tyrants-Cant-Stand-the-Smell-of-Jasmine/index.html In what must be considered one of the strangest and most perverse efforts by a tyrannical government to repress dissent, China’s Communist regime has mounted a full-scale effort to ban the sale of jasmine. Even the mention of the flower anywhere on the Internet is forbidden. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5786/1/Ai-Weiwei-they-silence-him-but-his-voice-grows-louder-and-louder-/index.html The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 37 days now. His family, his lawyers, his public and the global community of artists have still yet to hear word about his well-being since he was taken away by China’s security apparatus six Sundays ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5775/1/US--China-The-Unspoken-Strategic-and-Economic-Dialogue/index.html When the motorcade of Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo pulled up in the horseshoe driveway at State Department's C Street entrance this morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there to greet him.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5765/1/China-Times-Cross-strait-distance-on-human-rights/index.html In a recent interview with German-based Der Spiegel weekly, President Ma Ying-jeou said human rights is a criteria to measure the distance between Taiwan and mainland China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5763/1/China-Wealth-but-Not-Freedom/index.html When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington earlier this year he received the gracious welcome and state dinner he did not get on his first visit in 2006. He also had some tough discussions on trade, foreign exchange, national security, and human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5757/1/China-wants-to-change-the-conversation-Lets-not/index.html No one expected there would be good news. The United States and China have just concluded two days of talks on human rights, and unsurprisingly, it yielded very little beyond the talk itself. In the past two months, China has begun one of its most significant crackdowns in years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5740/1/US-China-Human-Rights-Dialogue-Soft-Power-Gone-Hard/index.html With Beijing in the midst of unyielding crackdown on dissidents, how much can the latest round of U.S.-China human rights discussions, currently underway in Beijing, possibly hope to accomplish? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5725/1/Western-democracy-no-panacea-for-the-world/index.html In the eyes of some people at home and abroad, China must copy Western-style democracy with a general election system at its core. In responding to this, China should adopt a cautious attitude, following the saying "think thrice before you act." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5720/1/Ai-Weiwei-arrest-Why-no-one-in-China-is-safe-from-those-in-power/index.html The Chinese Communist authorities' detainment of well-known artist Ai Weiwei is shocking even to a hardened dissident like me. It once again reveals the essence of the Chinese state for all the world to see: the rule by law for the authorities instead of the rule of law for the people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5718/1/Freedom-Going-Viral-Means-Trouble-For-Dictators/index.html More than 2 billion people across the globe have Internet access and there are some 5 billion mobile-phone subscriptions, according to the 2010 Human Rights Report released this month by the U.S. Department of State. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5716/1/US-should-resettle-Uighurs-held-at-Guantanamo/index.html The Supreme Court this week ended the quest of five exonerated Guantanamo detainees who are seeking release in the United States. The defeat for the Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority group in China, shouldn't be the end of the story. The problem is that other paths to settling them here are strewn with obstacles. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5699/1/Why-China-Fears-Ai-Weiwei/index.html Unlike most Chinese artists, entrepreneurs who pay little attention to politics, Ai Weiwei decided to challenge the Communist Party, says columnist Wenran Jiang zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5698/1/Caesar-in-Beijing/index.html The Communist Party picks a fight with Christian churches. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5682/1/Chinas-sunflower-revolutionary/index.html The grim news that Ai Weiwei, perhaps China's most famous contemporary artist, has been arrested and jailed - his family and friends have not seen or heard from him since April 3 - makes me think anew about Ai's 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds, now being exhibited at London's Tate Modern Gallery. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5672/1/How-Facebook-can-Fail-in-China-in-5-Easy-Steps-if-They-Copy-MySpace/index.html Many foreign companies have had disastrous forays into China.  Dreams of billions of yuan from hundreds of millions of Chinese buying their products and services fizzle.  These companies wake up to a reality of huge losses and major organizational distractions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5669/1/Has-the-Communist-Party-Abandoned-Reform/index.html On the surface, it certainly seems like China's Communist Party bosses have given up on reform. Nearly everywhere one looks here, the leadership in Beijing hammers away with hard-line politics, rebuffing even the half-chance of a challenge. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5668/1/3-reasons-for-Beijings-current-campaign-against-dissent/index.html With the arrest of one of China's most famous artists, Ai Weiwei, in early April, China's crackdown on domestic dissidents' movement has reached a new high. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5653/1/Editorial-Power-and-prejudice/index.html China cannot be a major global player yet expect immunity from censure zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5646/1/Analysis-Fear-and-swagger-drive-Chinas-clampdown-on-dissent/index.html China has shifted its clampdown on dissent up a gear with the detention of a world-renowned artist, Ai Weiwei, revealing a government at once insecure about its grip on power and yet unruffled by Western criticism of its heavy-handed rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5640/1/Weekly-Standard-An-Inconvenient-Truth-About-China/index.html Did James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, utter an inconvenient truth last month when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China presents the greatest "mortal threat" to the United States? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5635/1/Crackdown-in-China/index.html It has taken the arrest of Ai Weiwei, one of China's best-known contemporary artists and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, for the world to take notice that Beijing is in the midst of the largest crackdown on dissent in over a decade - one that differs ominously in scope, tactics and aims from previous campaigns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5591/1/Chinas-Gradual-Revolution/index.html ABOUT a week after Egyptian protesters forced out President Hosni Mubarak, anonymous calls demanding a similar revolution in China appeared on Web sites hosted outside of China. The unnamed activists asked people to gather every Sunday at designated spots in 13 Chinese cities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5587/1/Chinas-Mideast-Headache-/index.html Saudi Arabian police fired live ammunition in the air last week to disperse Shiite Muslim protesters in the kingdom's eastern province. That will sound alarm bells in China and much of Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5567/1/China-Welcomes-Home-the-New-US-Envoy/index.html China is a country where grand gestures play well. So when U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Republican pooh-bah Jon Huntsman Jr. as the American Ambassador to China back in 2009, Beijing was pleased to welcome such an august envoy to its shores.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5559/1/When-History-Catches-Up-With-Authoritarianism-/index.html The swell of people power across the Middle East and North Africa in recent weeks has laid bare the human yearning for freedom from the injustices of authoritarian dictatorships. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5530/1/New-War-Ahead-China-Pakistan-vs-USA/index.html China has been deploying thousands of soldiers in the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan, a mountainous area in northern Pakistan, and a region historically contested by Pakistan, India and its inhabitants. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5527/1/Tiananmen-20-Freedom-is-coming-to-China--one-way-or-another/index.html China's fierce crackdown of sporadic protests in recent weeks shows that Communist leaders there are watching the Arab uprisings with great anxiety. China would be wise to stay ahead of events by rolling out political reforms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5523/1/Repeated-Calls-For-Jasmine-Strolls-In-China/index.html Repeated calls for “Jasmine Strolls” in Chinese cities, including Beijing, emanating from overseas Chinese web sites have added to the nervousness of the Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5521/1/Wake-Up-and-Smell-the-Jasmine/index.html Instead of stomping out every faint sign of unrest, Beijing should get ahead of the curve and embrace real political change. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5517/1/-Right-Without-a-Remedy/index.html In a landmark case three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who are not American citizens have “the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus.” It gives them the right to have a federal judge decide promptly whether their detention is illegal and, if so, order their release because the United States controls the place they are held. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5509/1/In-Chinas-quotJasminequot-Crackdown-Image-Matters/index.html After the paranoid and sometimes violent response to yesterday's thwarted "jasmine rallies," a question hangs in the air: why would a government that seems so strong react with such fear? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5508/1/Washing-Away-a-Call-to-Protest-in-Beijing/index.html Any hint of “jasmine revolution” in Beijing was swept away Sunday, first by legions of police, then by trucks spraying water onto a shopping street in the center of the Chinese capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5504/1/After-Protests-Beijing-Cracks-Down-/index.html Last Sunday's planned protests were something of a bust but that hasn't stopped activists from posting another series of anonymous letters on the US-based Chinese language website Boxun urging Chinese citizens to take to the streets this weekend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5495/1/Tiananmen-20-Why-China-Is-Not-Immune-to-the-Tunisia-Effect-/index.html Last spring, I was waiting for a bus in Cairo. Dawn was just breaking, and Tahrir Square, where the bus station was located, was empty except for the omnipresent face of Hosni Mubarak, on posters that covered giant billboards and buildings all over the city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5454/1/Chinas-Hooligan-Government/index.html Chairman Mao said that power grows out of the barrel of the gun, and Chinese authorities have never shied away from using violence against anyone who has stepped out of line.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5453/1/Egypts-uprising-may-one-day-extend-to-China/index.html While the resignation of Egypt's authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak may have only set the course for the difficult transition to democracy for Egypt, 11 February 2011 will be remembered as the day the people triumphed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5452/1/Moving-Eastward/index.html Is China the next domino? Like Mubarak’s regime, the Chinese government relies on harsh measures to put down calls for democratic reform. Like Egypt, China is plagued by a huge gap between rich and poor, rampant corruption, rising prices of basic foods and high unemployment rates among recent university graduates. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5447/1/Smokin-hot-babe-spells-trouble-even-if-she-is-4000-years-old/index.html SHH! This is TOP SECRET. A cute blonde tourist is causing problems in Beijing's halls of power. No, she hasn't had an affair with any of China's top leaders. There are many adjectives one can use to describe those guys, but "sexy" no. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5437/1/Google-China-and-Chinese-College-Students/index.html Just over a year ago in January, Google first announced its potential departure from China in a blog post called "A new approach to China" -- Google's reaction to China's attempts "to further limit free speech on the web" and to cyber attacks Google determined had originated in China. Of course, there was much discussion here. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5436/1/China-can-attack-India-by-2014/index.html China can launch an attack on India by 2014.Defence experts warned that China will attack India by 2014 to divert the attention of its own people from "unprecedented" internal dissent, growing unemployment and financial problems that are threatening the hold of Communists in that country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5423/1/How-Chinas-Official-Media-Covers-Egyptian-Unrest/index.html While throughout the world people have watched media reports detailing the massive anti-government protests in Egypt that began on Jan. 25, in China the media reports have been either minimal or misleading and online discussions have been closed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5422/1/Social-media-as-a-tool-for-protest/index.html The key for any protest movement is to inspire and motivate individuals to go from the comfort of their homes to the chaos of the streets and face off against the government zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5421/1/The-Internet-Social-Media-and-Mubaraks-Dangerous-Game/index.html Events in Cairo are also rattling windows far away from the Middle East. In Washington, D.C., co-authors of the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which would allow a sitting U.S. president to shut down the Internet if it came under attack, called a press conference to insist the legislation was in no way similar to the actions of the Mubarak government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5417/1/Chinese-Segregation-No-Caucasian-Mummies-Need-Apply-/index.html The Chinese exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” ran without incident in California and Texas. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5413/1/Internet-freedom-cannot-wait/index.html In Egypt, the Internet is back on. After a few grueling days in which the government practically severed its nation's connections to the rest of the world, costing millions of dollars, the price became too high, and the switch was flipped. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5411/1/The-Technology-of-Counterrevolution-/index.html The Web helps reformers, but Egypt's autocrats are using it for their own ends. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5405/1/Social-Media-Alone-Do-Not-Instigate-Revolutions/index.html Internet services were reportedly restored in Egypt yesterday after being completely shut down for two days. Egyptian authorities unplugged the last Internet service provider (ISP) still operating Jan. 31 amidst ongoing protests across the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5403/1/What-China-Could-Teach-Middle-East-Dictators/index.html Sometimes the most interesting development in a revolution takes place where you least expect it. In the case of Egypt, that would be China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5401/1/LEE-Watching-Egypt-crumble/index.html Many think the political turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordon and Yemen is a warning to Beijing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could be the next authoritarian regime existing on borrowed time. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5397/1/When-Hu-played-sumo-with-Obama/index.html The recent Hu-Obama Presidential Summit in Washington was akin to two highly ranked sumo wrestlers circling each other while assessing how to edge the adversary out of the ring.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5388/1/Whats-Next-on-China/index.html So what’s next? After finally deciding to give human rights concerns pride of place in January’s US-China summit, how should the Obama administration translate its rhetoric into policy? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5387/1/Special-Commentary-Beijings-Response-to-Egypts-Lotus-Revolution/index.html Beijing is taking no chances regarding the possible impact that the “color revolutions” raging in North Africa and Middle East may have on China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5382/1/What-would-China-do-if-the-Suez-Canal-were-closed/index.html Despite the turmoil in Egypt, the Suez Canal is operating normally — for now. But if something happened, what would China (and more specifically, the Chinese navy) do? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5380/1/Analysis-US-military-says-keeps-up-with-China-Is-it-enough/index.html U.S. military commanders are expressing confidence that they can hold their own in the face of faster-than-expected advances by China's military, but looming cost cuts are adding to doubts about the future of American power in the Pacific. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5377/1/China-Isnt-Immune-to-Nile-Fever/index.html As growth slows and prices rise, Beijing's mandate to govern erodes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5376/1/A-State-Insult-with-Chinese-Characteristics/index.html A state banquet was scene to a triumph of sorts for a newly assertive, and more nakedly anti-American, strain in Chinese foreign policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5373/1/Will-China-walk-like-an-Egyptian/index.html For nearly a week now, as much of the world remains riveted by the events unfolding in Egypt, China is making assiduous efforts to appear uninterested. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5349/1/Obama-Hu-Summit-the-Good-the-Bad--the-Ugly/index.html Good: when President Obama said: The United States continues to support further dialogue between the government of China and the representatives of the Dalai Lama to resolve concerns and differences, including the preservation of the religious and cultural identity of the Tibetan people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5328/1/Human-rights-Hu-will-hear-none-of-it/index.html Something about human rights just doesn't translate for Chinese President Hu Jintao. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5327/1/What-I-Told-Obama-About-Beijings-Human-Rights-Problem/index.html On January 13, President Obama invited me and four other activists and scholars-the writer Zha Jianying, whose brother is a former political prisoner in China; Andrew Nathan, a Columbia professor; author Bette Bao Lord; and Paul Gewirtz, director of Yale's China Law Center-to meet with him at the White House to discuss the current state of human rights and reform in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5342/1/US-must-not-overlook-Chinas-rights-abuses/index.html As Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington, the policy of the Obama administration is clear -- at least rhetorically. But will this approach deliver real results on improving human rights in China? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5339/1/An-exchange-on-human-rights/index.html THE MOST significant statements at the joint news conference of President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao√ on Wednesday came in response to questions about human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5336/1/Changing-Our-Dysfunctional-Relationship-With-China-/index.html With Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit, it is a good time to reflect on how the dysfunctional U.S.-China relationship has developed, and to consider why it may be time for a trial separation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5333/1/Hu-Jintaos-Press-Conference-A-Controlling-Leader-Meets-An-Open-Press/index.html More than a year ago, President Obama traveled to Beijing, where he appeared for a press conference before hundreds of reporters with Chinese President Hu Jintao. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5315/1/What-if-China-stumbles/index.html Unlike Las Vegas, what happens in China, does not stay in China. President Obama and China’s President, Hu Jinato will certainly touch on this reality when they meet at the White House. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5314/1/China-Policy-Ossified-Wishful-Ruinous/index.html  The White House plans a state dinner for Hu Jintao next week. Yet, it is high time to re-think U.S.-China policy that has become out of step and injurious. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5312/1/Of-US-China-Summits-Past-and-Present/index.html One way to judge the prospects of President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States this week is to place it in the context of previous China-U.S. summit meetings. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5298/1/Beijings-Broken-Promises-on-Human-Rights/index.html The National Human Rights Action Plan wraps up after two years, but confessions extracted by torture are still accepted in Chinese courts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5293/1/2010---The-Uyghur-Human-Rights-Year-in-Review/index.html Looking back over 2010, many of the incidents in the Uyghur human rights year stemmed from the summer of 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5292/1/The-Constructive-Cambodian/index.html At any given time at the Phnom Penh International Airport or the Kingdom’s borders with Thailand and Vietnam, young Cambodians can be found streaming out of the Kingdom to find work abroad. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5280/1/The-limits-of-Chinese-expansionism/index.html On a November evening in this northern Lao border town, a crowd gathered around a traffic accident between two Chinese drivers. As tempers flared, Chinese casino guards moved tentatively to keep the peace. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5278/1/Han-Han-Chinas-most-popular-blogger-shuts-down-new-magazine/index.html Party, a literary magazine for alternative thinkers, appears to have collapsed after one issue zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5270/1/Cambodias-failure-to-protect-/index.html IF you can, never become an asylum-seeker. The point is perhaps an obvious one, but worth making. Asylum-seekers are people who have made a decision, or had the decision forced upon them, to leave behind everything they know because of what they believe in or because were they to stay, they would have everything, including their lives, taken from them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5269/1/China-and-the-Next-American-Century/index.html Beijing's Politburo has nothing on Mark Zuckerberg. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5246/1/Dont-let-China-be-a-Middle-Kingdom-bully/index.html One of the more frightening aspects of China's persecution of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is that the government never even bothered to frame him. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5243/1/Liu-Xiaobo-Chinas-Nobel-public-affairs-disaster/index.html Maybe, with hindsight, China would have done things differently. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5242/1/How-China-branded-Nobel-winner-Liu-Xiaobo-a-traitor/index.html The magazine is banned in mainland China. So, too, is its Web site. Its editor is barred from visiting the land of his birth. Yet Chinese authorities have repeatedly cited reporting from the blacklisted publication. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5240/1/Ambivalence-Idealism-and-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize-/index.html This time last year, I was celebrating Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5239/1/Eloquence-of-the-empty-chair/index.html The empty chair at yesterday's Nobel peace prize ceremony is a needed reminder of two things. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5238/1/When-did-basic-human-values-become-un-Chinese/index.html The morning before the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded, the Communist Party- controlled media released a statement denouncing the man who would have been in Oslo to receive it, if he were not banned from attending the ceremony. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5232/1/Chinas-Global-War-on-Human-Rights/index.html Why Beijing is promoting a world-wide rejection of postwar international norms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5231/1/Human-rights-rebuke-to-China/index.html The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize Friday to jailed Chinese pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5227/1/The-Internal-Political-Situation-In-China/index.html An editorial published on October 15, 2010, by the Communist Party controlled “Global Times” said:  “China has changed a lot. In the future it will continue to adopt gradualism to bring about changes. No force can compel the nation to change what cannot be changed at the moment…..  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5225/1/Let-Liu-Xiaobos-wife-accept-his-Nobel-Peace-Prize/index.html Hope dims that you will join peace-loving governments around the world by allowing Liu Xia to travel to Oslo this week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, Liu Xiaobo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5224/1/Let-Liu-Xiaobos-wife-accept-his-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html Hope dims that you will join peace-loving governments around the world by allowing Liu Xia to travel to Oslo this week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, Liu Xiaobo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5221/1/Dont-Get-Your-Hopes-Up-About-Chinese-Political-Reform/index.html In recent weeks, there has been growing discussion about China’s internal political situation. Most tantalizing to the American press was Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments about the desirability of Chinese political reform. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5217/1/China-North-Korea-alliance-frustrates-South/index.html Stepping into the Korean War (1950-53) to help North Korea, China’s communist leader Mao Zedong compared the relationship between the two countries to ``lips and teeth’’ _ if the lips are gone, the teeth would shiver in the cold. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5208/1/From-WikiChina/index.html While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5207/1/Scolding-China-Wont-Help/index.html As someone who has seen firsthand China’s progress over the last two decades, I have been deeply disappointed in Beijing’s treatment of Liu Xiaobo since he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5206/1/Honoring-a-Chinese-Nobel/index.html I still remember a question on one of the numerous physics tests I took in a middle school in China. “How many people of Chinese descent have been awarded a Nobel Prize?” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5194/1/Standing-Up-to-China-the-Obama-Way-/index.html China's recent passive-aggressive behavior on the world stage is unfortunate but not unexpected. President Obama is handling the PRC's non-collaboration with great skill and savvy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5192/1/Letters-Chinas-state-planned-economy-doomed-to-flop/index.html The biggest obstacle to China becoming the world’s No. 1 economy is China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5185/1/Switzerland-needs-to-show-courage/index.html Switzerland will shortly be starting negotiations with China designed to produce a free trade agreement, something the Swiss have been eagerly pushing for. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5183/1/Harnessing-Hacker-Hatred/index.html A recent U.S. government report repeated what Internet security experts have been saying for a long time; China is using the Internet for espionage and more aggressive actions to silence those who criticize or embarrass the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5173/1/Echoing-Nazi-Germany-China-wont-even-let-Liu-Xiaobos-family-pick-up-his-Nobel-Peace-Prize/index.html Nobody expected China's repressive government to applaud when pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize last month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5166/1/Repressions-paradox-in-China/index.html From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them disappeared, exiled, or executed. It is not so easy to silence the prestigious Nobel committee, however, let alone the international community. Of course, that is exactly why Professor Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5159/1/Insight-into-Chinas-propaganda-apparatus/index.html Beijing’s vitriolic response to Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel peace prize award has highlighted the ruling Communist Party’s refusal to brook any dissent, even from advocates of peaceful, evolutionary reform.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5125/1/China-Tracker---What-a-superpower-wants/index.html The votes are cast.  The results are in.  Republicans rode a populist tidal wave to seize control of the House.  Democrats held on to a (fragile) majority in the Senate.  So what does it all mean for U.S.-China relations?  That's the question I was asked today on BBC radio. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5104/1/Analysis-Strategic-tensions-threaten-Asia-as-China-rises/index.html  The Asia-Pacific region faces a period of strategic tensions that could damage economic ties as key national players adapt to an increasingly assertive China growing impatient with U.S. efforts to shore up its influence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5067/1/China-and-the-call-for-ordinary-human-rights-/index.html A quick update on the girl known as “FreshWind” – or Mu Yanxi, to use her real name – who was arrested by the Public Security Bureau in Chongqing after sending out a tweet promising to raise a banner praising this year’s Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5065/1/Wen-pushing-Chinas-political-boundaries/index.html The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party, used its front page on Wednesday to denounce any move in China towards multi-party democracy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5064/1/-China-resists-push-to-political-reform/index.html The Chinese Communist Party has dealt another blow to hopes that it might soon open itself to greater accountability, with an editorial in the People's Daily attacking 'pompous and empty slogans' about political reform. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5061/1/Why-We-Gave-Liu-Xiaobo-a-Nobel/index.html THE Chinese authorities' condemnation of the Nobel committee's selection of Liu Xiaobo, the jailed political activist, as the winner of the 2010 Peace Prize inadvertently illustrates why human rights are worth defending. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5051/1/Tibetan-Students-Reveal-Chinas-Identity-Crisis-/index.html "Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about." So said the late American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. China's Communist Party seems well ahead of the game. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5047/1/China-Courts-Turkey/index.html "Promotion of economic relations and a strategic partnership were projected as the main objective of the visit of Wen to Turkey, the Uighurs believed that an important purpose was to seek the support of Turkey for the pacification of Chinese-controlled Xinjiang and for the political neutralisation of the WUC. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5039/1/The-morality-of-trade-with-China/index.html Before heading off to recess, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill authorizing imposing tariffs on Chinese goods unless China stops manipulating its currency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5036/1/Coping-with-Chinas-core-interests/index.html “There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests” – is an oft-quoted saying. In fact, national or permanent interest has formed part of the political and diplomatic vocabulary for centuries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5021/1/Beijing-playing-its-Kashmir-card/index.html Even as the Chinese navy signals its intent to enforce sea denial in the "first island chain" in the East (comprised of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea of the Pacific Ocean), the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is reportedly on the move along China's southwest frontier in Pakistani-held Kashmir. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5006/1/A-New-Asian-Security-Constellation/index.html Leading members of the governments of India and South Korea recently met to begin a new “strategic partnership.” They are not alone in doing so, for across Asia, a new security architecture is being constructed, seemingly piecemeal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5002/1/For-Both-Nations-Depending-on-a-Rival-/index.html The leaders of the U.S. and China know that each country's economy depends enormously on the other. China is hugely dependent on selling goods to the U.S. to keep its vast army of workers employed. The U.S. is hugely dependent on China continuing to lend the U.S. government billions of dollars a day. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5001/1/Chinas-Aggressive-New-Diplomacy-/index.html Beijing drives its neighbors into the arms of the U.S. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4993/1/Chinas-Human-Rights-Report-Autos-Autocracy/index.html Ask American politicians to explain "human rights" and you're likely to get the usual litany of time-worn liberal democratic abstractions: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, habeas corpus. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4984/1/A-Sino-centric-Asia-unlikely/index.html How Asia's geopolitical landscape will evolve over the next couple of decades is not easy to foresee. But it is apparent that an increasingly assertive China is unwittingly reinforcing America's role in Asia as the implicit guarantor of security and stability. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4979/1/Bully-in-the-China-shop/index.html If there is one fundamental difference between the rise of China and the rise of India, it is that the former is arousing security concerns across Asia while the latter worries almost no one. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4941/1/Bumpy-Months-Ahead-for-US-and-China/index.html The visit of U.S. National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon that started Sunday kicks off a historically busy period of U.S.-China exchanges on which a lot is riding in the world’s most important bilateral relationship. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4933/1/China-the-Aggressor/index.html China’s recent assertiveness in the East and South China Seas and along the Sino-Indian border has prompted intense debate. Is Beijing finally showing its real irredentist colors? Is this a short-term display of nationalism as party leaders jockey for positions in the Politburo and Central Committee in 2012? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4931/1/India-Must-Master-the-Great-Game/index.html Strategic tensions between Asia's rising giants, China and India, are palpably worsening. While there's enough blame for this situation to go around, much of it does lie with China. But India also needs to rethink its approach to great power rivalry in order to manage the contest sensibly. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4926/1/The-China-Syndrome-/index.html China's ascension to the world's second-largest economy, surpassing Japan, has led to predictions that it will inevitably snatch the No. 1 spot from the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4924/1/Chess-on-the-High-Seas---Dangerous-Times-for-US-China-Relations-/index.html The Obama administration's hopes that its warmer approach to Beijing would yield a more fruitful Sino-American relationship have been disappointed. Rather than adopting a more cooperative bearing, Beijing has become increasingly assertive over the past year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4910/1/-China-threat-Now-you-see-it-now-you-dont/index.html It's that time of year again; the time when the Pentagon rolls out its annual threat assessment on China. The Pentagon has been issuing these reports since 2000, pursuant to US law. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4908/1/Taiwan-Fails-to-Learn-From-Its-Own-History/index.html The leader of China's ethnic Uyghur minority, Rebiya Kadeer, was recently banned from entering Taiwan for three years. Kadeer, a human rights advocate and spokesperson for millions of China's repressed Uyghurs, had been invited by a Taiwanese arts organization to attend screenings of The 10 Conditions of Love, a documentary about her life story. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4903/1/Citizen-Rights-and-Police-Conduct/index.html A recent incident in central China dramatizes the severe contradiction between the government’s overriding concern for maintaining social stability and the anger of increasingly rights-conscious citizens. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4902/1/Is-mercy-coming-to-China/index.html In a surprising response to public protests, the Chinese government recently prohibited police from publicly shaming criminal suspects through such devices as parades, used most controversially for parades of prostitutes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4892/1/What-Goes-Around-Comes-Around/index.html Chinese leaders are increasingly worried about another revolution. The signs are ominous, for the Chinese are avid students of their own history, and how it constantly repeats itself. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4891/1/If-Tibetans-Took-To-The-Streets-For-The-Tibetan-Language/index.html We “ethnic minorities” took notice of thousands of Cantonese people recently taking to the streets fighting for their language, a spectacle that ended peacefully. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4889/1/Faith-against-odds/index.html China's 20 million Muslims face an uncertain future. In Ningxia, Islam has thrived for centuries, but a fading interest in the next generation of Hui Muslims is creating anxieties. For the Uighurs of Xinjiang, ethnic unrest has brought local mosques unwanted attention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4884/1/Uighur-Writers-Silenced/index.html The Chinese government has used unrest as an excuse to intensify its forced assimilation policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4885/1/Chinas-unstable-stability/index.html The Beijing leadership's obsession with order and control in face of citizens' search for justice highlights the dysfunctional nature of China's political system, says Li Datong. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4877/1/Chinas-financial-clout-is-a-paper-tiger/index.html China’s rapid emergence as a financial super power may challenge the US less than some opponents of President Barack Obama and a few independent analysts would have us believe. In fact, Beijing’s financial ascendancy is a paper tiger and its wider economy could become a responsible friend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4876/1/Trouble-brewing-in-the-hood-/index.html The balance of power in Asia is expected to change significantly in the next few decades, as China increases its military capabilities. Last year's Defence white paper made it clear the Australian government is worried China and the US might end up in an "escalating strategic competition" laden with potential for "miscalculation". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4860/1/The-US-Stands-Up-to-Chinas-Bullying/index.html Secretary of State Clinton and Defense Secretary Gates have put Beijing on notice that we will counter any regional expansionism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4839/1/Fear-of-separatism-likely-to-limit-recognition/index.html Domestic factors mean those who do not recognise Kosovo are unlikely to change their minds, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLIN zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4830/1/Xinjiang-Enticements/index.html The Chinese central government has been using a heavy duty carrot and stick approach to the resource rich, predominantly Muslim Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4828/1/Taiwan-is-following-the-path-of-Xinjiang/index.html I ran into World Uyghur Congress president Rebiya Kadeer by the elevator on my way to attend a hearing on July 19 of the US Congressional Executive Commission on China on conditions in Xinjiang a year after the riots in July last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4809/1/Ma-is-blind-to-roots-of-terror-in-Taiwan/index.html President and ruling rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou displayed Thursday a dangerous blindness to the historical roots of the "White Terror" inflicted by the KMT on Taiwan during the nearly four decades of martial law rule that threatens to pave the way for a future tragedy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4801/1/Leading-Uyghur-advocate-supports-terror-probe/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress and winner of the 2004 Rafto Prize in Norway, says she “felt terrible” after hearing that a fellow Uyghur had been arrested on terrorism charges in Norway last week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4797/1/When-censorship-is-on-the-line-answer-the-call-/index.html I very rarely pick up the general phone in the office: I'm usually protected by a phalanx of staff. I think Angie, our receptionist, must have slipped downstairs for a quick ciggie. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4771/1/Living-Target/index.html Chinese Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, told a Hong Kong TV station Monday, “If a U.S. aircraft carrier enters the Yellow Sea, it will become a living target.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4766/1/Is-There-Anybody-Out-There-/index.html Once upon a time in a far away land there were beatings, arrests, extra judicial executions, murder and oppression. The story went on and on and the whole world kept quiet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4758/1/Ending-the-silence-on-Chinas-Uighur-repression/index.html A year ago today, when Chinese police violently suppressed a peaceful protest by the Uighur minority in Urumqi, the capital of the western region of Xinjiang, the world essentially looked the other way. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4757/1/The-Uyghur-voice-2009-10-and-beyond/index.html The violent protests of July 2009 in Urumchi revealed deep-rooted problems in Beijing’s policy towards the Uyghur people of Xinjiang region in China’s far west. The path to resolution can only be unblocked by acknowledging the Uyghurs’ right to speak, says Henryk Szadziewski. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4737/1/Chinas-Major-Terrorist-Haul/index.html Earlier this week, Chinese authorities said they had uncovered a ‘major’ terrorist organization. The timing raised some eyebrows, as it the announcement came just a couple of weeks before the anniversary of the riots last year in Ür&uumlmqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4732/1/The-World-Has-Been-Kidnapped-/index.html Chaos plagues China these days. According to official statistics, 200 million people are unemployed. Every two minutes, someone kills him or herself. Grievances among the citizenry have lead to a rapid increase in mass protests, which are often violent. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4718/1/China-Faces-Growing-Labor-Unrest-Amid-Wave-of-Strikes/index.html It is the epitome of all ironies. A supposedly workers Marxist/Communist political entity, the People's Republic of China, is in reality capitalism's ultimate creation: an authoritarian workshop for multinational corporations that keeps wages at the lowest possible levels, while making strikes and plant shutdowns by workers strictly illegal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4709/1/Problems-remain-unsolved-as-refugees-mark-another-World-Refugee-Day/index.html How does it feel to be away from your homeland, to have no place to go, with every place you arrive at being another stop before you have to go somewhere else, to have to live constantly on the move, to always live with uncertainty about your future? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4701/1/Clipping-the-dragons-torturous-claws/index.html Law banning evidence obtained under duress is a small step, but one in the right direction zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4682/1/10-Conditions/index.html I recently had the great opportunity to attend Mountainfilm, a documentary film festival in Telluride, Colorado. This year's theme was "Extinction" and focused on the human effect on species decline and the environment. I'm already dreaming of Naomi's and my National Geographic film debut at Mountainfilm in the future … but back to the point. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4677/1/Does-Iran-really-think-China-is-a-paper-tiger-/index.html With a nicely Chinese sense of both history and grievance, Iran today expressed displeasure at its former friends in Beijing. China, so long a defender of Iran in the UN security council, not only failed to veto the sanctions resolution on Wednesday but actually voted in favour. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4654/1/Pak-China-security-cooperation/index.html While bilateral military ties between Pakistan and China remain strong, the two countries are looking forward to expanding the parameters of their cooperation to address new security concerns that threaten not only the peace and security in the region but also pose a serious challenge to the national security interests of the two countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4653/1/Strategic-alliances-a-deceptive-blind-alley/index.html On Friday, the Global Times ran an article by He Kai, "China needs security allies, not just economic partners," arguing that China should form alliances with neighboring countries for security purposes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4649/1/-As-China-rises-it-demands-a-deference-we-should-be-wary-to-give/index.html Australian public opinion has made history. We have the distinction of becoming the first people in the world to name China as the world's leading economic power - even before the Chinese themselves. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4630/1/Diplomatic-triumph-baffles-China/index.html It seems China never expected South Korea to find actual evidence of North Korea’s hand in the Cheonan tragedy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4629/1/Diplomatic-triumph-baffles-China.html It seems China never expected South Korea to find actual evidence of North Korea’s hand in the Cheonan tragedy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4615/1/Internet-Restored-But-the-Evils-of-Han-Chauvinism-Party-State-Despotism-and-Bankrupt-Communism-Remain-/index.html On May 14, residents of East Turkestan rediscovered the Internet -- not the Internet of unfettered access that is enjoyed the world over, but a lifting of the most draconian Internet restrictions ever seen so that people could finally access China's censored version. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4601/1/China-suppresses-free-speech-by-foreigners-too/index.html It was supposed to be my first visit to China in four and a half years. However, when I arrived in Beijing airport on Feb. 27, I was refused entry. Two hours later, I had to board the same plane that brought me there to return to Tokyo's Haneda Airport. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4572/1/Thunder-in-Oslo/index.html Who owns human rights? For generations, the answer was the left -- the anti-fascist left that fought Franco and formed the core of the Free French, and took to the streets to defend the working man against capitalist exploitation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4569/1/What-Does-China-Have-to-Do-with-Islam-and-Democracy-/index.html Inside China, the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang, or Turkestan, who came onto many people's radars for the first time after last summer's riots in Urumqi, might be a threat to the People's Republic, though I cannot imagine so tiny a minority challenging so giant a state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4541/1/The-Geography-of-Chinese-Power-/index.html China’s blessed geography is so obvious a point that it tends to get overlooked in discussions of the country’s economic dynamism and national assertiveness. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4490/1/We-are-doing-all-the-fighting-but-China-will-win-the-peace/index.html Will Afghanistan soon be no more than a Chinese province? These questions are prompted by yesterday’s meeting in Beijing between China’s leader, Hu Jintao, and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4475/1/Unplugged-in-Urumqi-/index.html For quite some time, I had been looking forward to travelling back to Xinjiang province, one of my favorite destinations in China, for a reporting trip. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4468/1/Yes-Chinese-have-rights--in-theory-/index.html In many ways, China's constitution is a marvellous document. It guarantees Chinese citizens a host of rights, including “freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.” The problem is, they exist only in theory. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4462/1/The-51st-Anniversary-of-the-Tibetan-Struggle-What-is-the-future/index.html March 10, 2010 marked the 51st Anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising which had forced the Dalai Lama to move to Dharamshala and establish the Tibetan Government-in-exile. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4460/1/The-Exclusiveness-of-Being-Chinese/index.html The Characteristics of Chinese and Indian Identities and How to Obtain Them zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4426/1/Uighurs-failed-by-Cambodias-sham-refugee-law/index.html In June last year a solitary Uighur from Xinjiang Province in China arrived in Phnom Penh seeking asylum. He registered his claim with the Cambodian Government and with UNHCR. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4425/1/Uighurs-gambit/index.html They had hoped for a new homeland far from the island fortress that is the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, where they could find fellowship with other Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4423/1/Have-we-got-a-China-junket-for-you/index.html Spring break for congressional folks is just around the corner. Time for lawmakers and aides to sign up for those grueling missions in search of facts. But don't dally. For example, we hear there's only a seat or two left on an excellent 12-day trip for congressional staffers to China, leaving March 30. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4415/1/Chinas-global-role/index.html Today the question is not about the rise of China but its role as a global power and how this will affect Asia and the world. The new US administration under President Barack Obama was to usher in a new and less conflictual relationship but has had to face opposition from rivals as well as allies and friends. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4409/1/Chinas-Tibet-Tactics/index.html Verbal attacks underline Beijing's insecurities, not its strength. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4398/1/Cambodias-One-Party-Future/index.html The opposition party has lost touch and Chinese patronage is threatening the prospect of multi-party democracy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4393/1/The-Dalai-Lamas-principled-pursuit-of-democracy/index.html Now that the White House has announced that President Obama will receive the Dalai Lama, it is important that he be welcomed not only as a moral and religious leader respected throughout the world but also as a fellow democrat who shares America's deepest values. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4390/1/The-danger-behind-Chinas-me-first-worldview/index.html It's become apparent from recent events that America's political, business and scholarly elites have fundamentally misjudged China. Conflicts with China have multiplied. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4387/1/Chinas-Self-Defeating-Censorship/index.html At the desiccated northwest corner of Gansu province in western China, a fort known as Jiayuguan marks the end of the Great Wall. During the 1500s messages from this distant outpost could reach the imperial capital Beijing in a matter of days via a system of smoke signals and fires. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4385/1/Stingy-China-May-Hurt-Only-Itself/index.html Greece’s big budget deficit has plunged the euro zone into crisis, while rating agencies wonder whether Washington’s fiscal profligacy could one day cost the United States its AAA rating. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4376/1/Saved-by-the-Swiss-/index.html Did President Obama have to promise to outfit the Swiss Navy  to induce Switzerland to take two of the last Uighur detainees at Guantánamo Bay off our hands? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4372/1/Eurasias-energy-wars-the-US-China-and-Muslims-in-Pipelineistan-/index.html "While China’s presence in the Great Game gives Iran an important opening to break out of US-Israeli strangleholds, it translates into poverty and dispossession for Central Asian Muslims. Even as the players shift, Muslims must realize that what ultimately needs to be changed are the rules of the game." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4360/1/Chinas-malign-influence-in-Sri-Lanka/index.html The democratically elected Government of Sri Lanka has once again displayed its intolerance of any opposition by arresting Sarath Fonseka, the retired army general who stood against the incumbent president Mahinda Rajapakse at the recent election. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4341/1/China-Beware-Anger-is-Stronger-than-Greed/index.html "Threats spawn anger that morphs into enmity and overwhelms greed.", Modern American Proverb. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4338/1/The-US-must-speak-out-against-Chinas-offenses/index.html One year ago today, China kidnapped my husband.  I don't know where he is. I don't know what is being done to him. The only thing I know is why he disappeared: My husband, Gao Zhisheng, defied Beijing by representing people the government finds threatening. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4332/1/Analysis-Tibet-Taiwan-Google-sour-US-China-ties/index.html Challenge China's position on Taiwan and watch China go ballistic. When the United States last week announced plans to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, China fired back with vitriolic anger. It's a "crude interference in China's domestic affairs," said He Yafei, vice minister of foreign affairs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4325/1/Uighurs-being-held-in-Chinese-Tuol-Slengs/index.html I am a Tibetan-American who recently visited Cambodia. On December 26, I visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4300/1/WAKE-UP-AUSTRALIA-Fix-the-China-relationship/index.html Democratically elected governments the world over wrestle with the tensions between the vagaries of public opinion and good public policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4276/1/Chinas-Homeland-Insecurity/index.html When the history of the 21st century is written, the year 2009 will likely be marked as the moment when China, seen as merely rising for over a decade, finally arrived on the world stage. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4257/1/Whats-really-at-stake-in-Google-vs-China/index.html Google's threat to shut down its operations in China might seem like just a dispute between a private company and a government, but the implications are huge for the world's fastest-growing economy, for the United States and for global relations, says analyst Fareed Zakaria. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4255/1/Google-Didnt-Kowtow-and-Neither-Should-You/index.html The company is only insisting on reciprocal fair dealing—something that is in America's interest, too. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4247/1/Is-China-an-Enron-Part-2/index.html Last week, I wrote a column suggesting that while some overheated Chinese markets, like real estate, may offer shorting opportunities, I’d be wary of the argument that China’s economy today is just one big short-inviting bubble, à la Dubai. Your honor, I’d like to now revise and amend my remarks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4242/1/Book-Review-A-Voice-for-Freedom/index.html When rioting broke out between ethnic Han Chinese and Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim people, in far western China last July, the longtime regional Communist Party head, Wang Lequan, accused Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader, of instigating them from abroad. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4215/1/Stateless-Pawns-in-the-Global-Game-of-the-Superpowers/index.html The Witness to Guantanamo Project (W2G) just returned from filming interviews with the Uyghurs in Palau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4211/1/The-Dragons-Swagger-/index.html A U.S. official here told me he was “getting a little nervous about 2010” when it comes to Chinese-American relations. I’d say there’s plenty of cause for that. I’m not optimistic about the world’s most important relationship in the short term. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4209/1/Chinas-soft-power-hardens-in-Cambodia/index.html A day after Cambodian authorities spirited 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers out of the country on an unmarked charter flight, China's Vice President Xi Jinping touched down at Siem Reap International Airport. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4207/1/When-China-Rules-the-World-/index.html Is China set to displace the US as the new global superpower? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4205/1/The-US-Economy-Doesnt-Need-China-/index.html The U.S. federal government runs a gigantic budget deficit, which will hurt the economy for the next decade. China buys some of the bonds sold in order to raise the money to finance that deficit. The PRC has about $800 billion in official holdings of Treasuries, plus perhaps that much in other types of holdings. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4192/1/From-the-charm-to-the-offensive/index.html China's smile diplomacy shows its teeth zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4174/1/Edward-McMillan-Scott-We-need-new-powers-to-rein-in-China/index.html The execution of Akmal Shaikh is Europe's cue to stand up to an abusive one-party state and forget trade zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4169/1/Refugees-Are-Not-Bargaining-Chips-/index.html A virus is sweeping Asia. The symptoms are heightened xenophobia and amnesia about fundamental refugee rights. Australia and Indonesia succumbed first, in October, when they stopped boats carrying Sri Lankans. Neither country would allow the Sri Lankans to disembark even though they came from a country experiencing massive violence and displacement. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4165/1/China-Vietnam-mark-holidays-with-repression/index.html THE WEST'S Christmas holiday season has become a season of repression for Asia's authoritarian regimes. On Christmas Day, China sentenced one of its foremost dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, to 11 years in prison for the "crime" of helping create the democracy manifesto Charter 2008. Days earlier Beijing induced Cambodia to hand over 20 Uighur refugees who should have been under the protection of the United Nations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4157/1/China-takes-flight/index.html START WITH the kiddie toys, the pajamas, and the computers. Then think about how far China has come since a panicky politburo ordered the People’s Liberation Army to open fire on the people in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Consider the $2 trillion surplus China Inc. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4156/1/Harsh-justice-in-China---Dont-mess-with-us/index.html No forgiveness; no quarter. Happy Christmas from China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4154/1/Britain-rethinks-China-strategy-after-Copenhagen-and-Shaikh-failure/index.html After the Copenhagen debacle this month and the execution of the first citizen of a European country by China since 1951, Britain is now reassessing how to handle China diplomatically. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4152/1/President-Obama-Push-Back-on-China-/index.html Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and signing a petition, Charter 08, calling for political reform and the basic human rights much of the world already enjoys. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4151/1/Chinas-way-on-human-rights-/index.html China slapped a severe 11-year prison term on Liu Xiaobo, one of the country’s most well-known dissidents, showing itself to be as intransigent as ever when it comes to human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4146/1/Dont-place-hope-in-PRC-investment/index.html The two “China” parties — the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) — say they only want what is best for Taiwan when it comes to trade and economic exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. Chinese officials have even said that Taiwanese businesspeople go to China to make money off the backs of the Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4145/1/Honesty-is-the-best-policy-/index.html Stephen Harper's visits to China and Copenhagen did not display the hypocrisy-tainted policies of the past zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4144/1/Fatal-flaws-in-Chinese-law/index.html China is a rapidly emerging nation, in the jargon of the day, but it has shown defects that will prevent it from being a true world power. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4125/1/China-Cambodia-and-the-Uighurs/index.html Just more than a year ago, Cambodia was praised by the United Nations for its work on behalf of refugees. It was one of only two nations in Southeast Asia to sign the 1951 international convention on refugees, and it opened a brand new office that seemed to suggest a new determination to protect refugees’ human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4121/1/Cambodias-deportation-of-Uighurs-is-blatant-hypocrisy/index.html After refusing to extradite a wanted fugitive back to Thailand, Hun Sen gladly sends asylum seekers back to China to face trial zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4120/1/Cambodias-plane-of-shame/index.html Deporting Uighur potential refugees sets a terrible precedent zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4112/1/The-Long-Arm-of-China-/index.html Why were members of China's Uighur minority group recently deported from Cambodia? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4092/1/Chinas-Media-quotOpennessquot-in-East-Turkestan/index.html As President Obama emphasized the benefits of the free flow of information at a town hall meeting during a visit to Shanghai last month, around 20 million citizens of China living in East Turkestan, a region comprising one-sixth of China's territory, remained submerged in an ongoing Internet blackout which was implemented by government officials hours after protests started on July 5, 2009 in the regional capital of Urumchi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4082/1/Another-Warning-to-the-CCPFrom-Tehran/index.html If Tehran’s rulers need to worry about unrest, what about China’s? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4077/1/A-Nobel-Winner-Who-Went-Wrong-on-Rights/index.html In accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, President Obama talked about the quiet dignity of human rights reformers such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, the bravery of Zimbabwean voters who "cast their ballots in the face of beatings" and the need to bear witness to "the hundreds of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4071/1/YEARENDER-Chinese-city-isolated-divided-after-ethnic-killings-/index.html Many residents of China's far western city of Urumqi spent the second half of 2009 cut off from the world after the government sent in paramilitary police, imposed curfews, and suspended most internet and some telephone services. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4070/1/On-Changing-Chinas-Ethnic-Policy/index.html The following is a translation of most of this post (we skipped the last paragraph) from Woeser’s blog (which is currently blocked in China). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4065/1/Obamas-Faulty-Trade-Off-in-East-Asia/index.html The rise of a great power has never been frictionless and introduces fundamental changes at the very core of international politics. A shift in the existing balance of power often entails violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4063/1/Chinas-New-Security-State/index.html The Communist Party tries to hold on to power through a vast and growing antisubversion network. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4051/1/Will-Obamas-policy-on-Asia-ultimately-succeed-or-fail/index.html President Barack Obama has recently concluded a four-nation, eight-day trip through Asia. Has the president's lengthy trip fulfilled his stated intention of announcing that the United States was "back" in Asia? Has the president achieved any tangible policy results? Was the trip a success or an embarrassment? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4038/1/Is-China-as-stable-as-it-says-it-is/index.html One noticeable aspect about China these days is the cockiness and arrogance of its rulers, which manifests itself both at home and abroad. This has come with a new sense of entitlement about China’s central place in global affairs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4032/1/Learning-about-Xinjiang-Urumqi-and-Chinas-Uygur-People/index.html Matthew Teague's December 2009 National Geographic article, "The Other Tibet," should be considered must-reading for anyone interested in understanding modern China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4031/1/After-Obama-Will-China-Embrace-Multiculturalism-/index.html In all the recent controversy over racism in China-focused on 20-year-old Shanghai pop singer Lou Jing, whose mother is Chinese and father is African-American-people forgot to mention how the Chinese bureaucracy itself encourages citizens to classify themselves by race. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4029/1/The-Middle-Kingdom-extends-its-reach-/index.html FORMER military chief Peter Cosgrove referred to China, in the recent Boyer lectures, as the Middle Kingdom - a title often used for the country by English-speaking politicians and businesspeople, frequently in an awed tone of reverence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4028/1/Two-wrestlers-/index.html Obama had little negotiation space on his Asia trip, yet China could not score zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4019/1/Obama-the-Teabaggers-and-Foreign-Policy/index.html If you have been following what America's right-wing bloggers and radio talk-show hosts have been saying about President Barack Obama's just-concluded trip to the Asia-Pacific, you would be under the impression that Obama was not treated by officials in that region as the leader of the world's only remaining superpower and the largest and most advanced economy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4017/1/Au-Ba-Ma-or-Ou-Ba-Ma-/index.html For readers not familiar with this dateline, it lies southwest of Hankook and southeast of Xizhang. One of those is a place where people guard their identity most tenaciously. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4016/1/Obama-must-speak-on-human-rights-in-China/index.html President Obama's China trip may have proved to be a mere lesson in rhetoric. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4012/1/Equals-at-Last-for-Better-or-for-Worse/index.html While no breakthroughs came out of the Barack Obama-Hu Jintao summit meeting, the U.S. president’s maiden trip to China will go down in history as a pivotal event in the relations between the two most powerful countries of the 21st century. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3986/1/Flame-of-Conscience/index.html Sunday will mark President Barack Obama’s first visit to China. Will he be stricken by Marco Polo-itis? The Great Wall and the Forbidden City can be mesmerizing. But so too can Obama, especially if allowed to speak freely on Chinese television. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3985/1/Shame-Shame-China-Shame/index.html A few hundred of us human rights protestors rallied outside of the Chinese Embassy earlier this year. It was actually toward the end of April and I was in Washington D.C. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3981/1/How-India-must-face-the-Chinese-threat-/index.html India, argues Bharat Verma, needs to aggressively counter China's imperial ambitions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3975/1/The-China-Awaiting-President-Obama/index.html As President Obama prepares for his first personal and presidential visit to the People’s Republic of China, expectations are high concerning the U.S.-China relationship. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3915/1/Kadeer-Movie-Fuss-Brings-In-Viewers/index.html From “Ulysses” to “Lolita,” “banned in Boston” to “the Streisand effect,” there is plenty of evidence that trying to suppress something is a sure way to get people to pay attention to it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3901/1/Trading-Up-in-the-Taiwan-Strait/index.html In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3900/1/ND-Batra-Chinas-economic-diplomacy/index.html Trade offers bundled with support for authoritarian rulers, arms sales and debt waivers zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3886/1/The-Uighur-Disappearances-/index.html China's authoritarian regime often resorts to extrajudicial means to silence critics. A recent report on the July ethnic riots in Xinjiang shows just how far the authorities are willing to go in the rush for a "harmonious society." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3885/1/Testing-Conditions-/index.html When the Melbourne International Film Festival refused Chinese demands to drop documentary The 10 Conditions Of Love from this year's line-up, international controversy ensued. Adam Benzine reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3859/1/Seeing-unrest-puts-peoples-plight-in-focus--Chinese-have-whittled-patience-of-Uighurs-/index.html Burnt-out shells of buses. Shattered store windows. Blood on the streets. This was the scene this July in Urumqi, China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3854/1/Xinjiangs-Bleached-Bones-and-Turquoise-Tombs-/index.html Few opportunities exist for Uighurs to assimilate into greater China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3841/1/EDITORIAL-More-pandering-to-China/index.html The first time the Dalai Lama wanted to visit after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) took office, the Tibetan spiritual leader was turned down because it was not an “appropriate time for him to visit.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3839/1/Review-Rebiya-Kadeer-/index.html After much highly publicised debate between members of the Law School and the University of Auckland over whether controversial Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer would be allowed to speak, a lecture theatre was finally secured thanks to the efforts of David Williams and Green MP Keith Locke. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3818/1/Montesquieu-in-Beijing/index.html China’s assertion of a ”peaceful rise” has a strong resonance with what Montesquieu had to say that wealth would reduce abuses of power. But that’s where the fairy tale ends zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3816/1/Stability-Loses-in-Clash-of-Chinas-Titans/index.html As the Chinese sayings go, a sky cannot hold two suns, nor can a mountain contain two tigers. Throughout last week’s lavish celebrations of the PRC’s 60th birthday, however, President Hu Jintao was forced to share the limelight with his predecessor, 83-year-old Jiang Zemin, who does not have even a single official position. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3812/1/Taiwan-and-China/index.html Taiwan’s position as a de facto independent state seems to be morphing very slowly toward the “one country, two systems” status of Hong Kong. The process is not irreversible but the sentiments of those of mainland origin in the governing Nationalist Party, zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3810/1/Lest-we-forget-Chinas-party-killed-millions-/index.html YOU can learn a lot about a country's political culture by the way it celebrates. In the present mood of mingled discretion and convenience that governs our interactions with China, the Western media chose to avert its eyes from the lifeless spectacle of China's official 60th birthday celebrations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3809/1/China-at-60-No-More-Excuses/index.html Blaming Mao's chaotic years for the slow pace of reform is wearing thin as the vast majority of Chinese remain poor while their leaders grow more powerful zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3808/1/Slogans-cant-rule/index.html I was shocked not only by the various weapons on parade during China's 60th anniversary celebration, but as well the slogans and banners in red. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3807/1/In-China-the-Red-Flags-Still-Fly-for-Mao/index.html ON Oct. 1, 1959, I took part in a parade for the 10th anniversary of the Communist revolution that led to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3806/1/Chinas-Mixed-Anniversary-/index.html This past week marks the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Communist leader Mao Zedong. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3805/1/At-60-China-still-in-a-predicament-/index.html With the nation's socialist dreams falling apart, the big question is what next. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3802/1/view-Chinas-challenges/index.html Globalisation has impoverished some, enormously enriched others — China being a prime beneficiary of the latter — and closely connected far corners of the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3800/1/Uyghurs-face-an-education-dilemma/index.html Language, culture and identity have always been thorny issues in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Recent developments in the educational system once again bring into the spotlight the delicate balance between China's mainstream influence and the cultural and individual identities of Uyghur minorities living in this region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3797/1/China-must-face-up-to-its-own-history/index.html The 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is an occasion for celebration and reflection. Indeed, there is much to celebrate. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3796/1/Treading-carefully-on-China-and-Tibet/index.html THE OBAMA administration achieved a rare moment of bipartisanship in deciding not receive the Dalai Lama at the White House this week. Both Democrats and Republicans found common ground criticizing the administration for kow-towing to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3795/1/China-celebrates-its-rosy-future-without-dealing-with-the-past-or-present/index.html Shows and perfect organization for the grand celebration of 60 years of communism. The party celebrates the greatness of the country to assert its power. But its celebrations ignore Tibet, Xinjiang and many unsolved problems. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3793/1/China-Swaggers-On-Yet-Future-Looks-Uncertain-/index.html Showing off China’s new wealth and national might on the anniversary of the birth of the People’s Republic, the country’s leaders attributed its rise as a rejuvenated world power to the 60 years of communist rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3792/1/The-Ethnicization-of-Discontent-in-Xinjiang/index.html One of many disturbing long-term effects of the recent violence in Urumqi is an increased ethnicization of anger on all sides. Ethnic tensions are of course nothing new in Xinjiang, and ethnically targeted state policies have long made it difficult to distinguish between anti-government and ethnic discontent, but until now Uyghur resistance has been aimed at the state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3785/1/The-Peoples-Republic-of-China-at-Sixty-The-Fear-of-Self-Examination/index.html October 1, 2009 marks sixty years since Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3784/1/Chinas-Minority-Problem--And-Ours/index.html On October 1, the People's Republic of China will mark its 60th anniversary with the largest military parade in its history. The ruling Communist Party is not commemorating 60 years of ideological stability and continuity, however, but a period of speedy change and dramatic reversals. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3773/1/Empire-State-Building-Goes-Red--Yellow-for-China-Outrage-Ensues/index.html The Empire State Building's publicists inform us -- like they're proud of it! -- that tomorrow ESB will glow red and yellow to honor the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China. At 10 a.m. members of the Consul General of the People's Republic, including Consul General Peng Keyu, will "flip the light switch on a scale model of the Empire State Building," and either America will blow up or the lights will go on. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3772/1/The-Meaning-of-Freedom/index.html Why the Supreme Court should step in to decide the latest detention controversy zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3770/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-and-Taipei---The-Ma-government-missteps/index.html Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou was elected last year largely to improve the island's economy through closer links with China. His government is misinterpreting that mandate to include closer ties with China's authoritarian politics, too. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3767/1/Documentary-on-Kadeer-will-screen-at-film-festival/index.html The Kaohsiung Film Archive and the organizing committee of the 2009 Kaohsiung Film Festival yesterday announced it would go ahead with plans to screen The 10 Conditions of Love, a documentary about exiled Uighur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, during the festival beginning on Oct. 16. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3753/1/A-Break-In-Chinas-Communist-Wall/index.html Has a crack just appeared in China's mighty Communist Party? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3752/1/Beijings-Secret-Succession-Battle/index.html As Beijing ramps up for next week's celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, the Communist Party leadership is keen to present a stable, united front to the outside world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3751/1/Beijing-faces-a-fresh-legitimacy-test/index.html When the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China is celebrated early next month, it will be an apt occasion for reflection on its six decades of rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3742/1/EDITORIAL-Kadeer-is-entitled-to-a-visa-/index.html The Kaohsiung City Government’s decision to bring forward the screening of a documentary on exiled Uighur Muslim activist Rebiya Kadeer — amid complaints by the tourism sector that Chinese tour groups were canceling hotel reservations — was not well-received in some quarters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3729/1/Say-it-loud-Im-PRC-and-Im-proud/index.html In preparation for October 1, when grand celebrations will be held in the Middle Kingdom to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the government has released a set of 50 slogans to get people into the right mood. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3727/1/EDITORIAL-Between-obstinence-and-capitulation-/index.html Successful negotiations frequently involve concessions on the part of negotiators. If common ground is to be found between parties with conflicting goals, give and take is unavoidable. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3726/1/Conditions-of-freedom-for-a-state-under-siege-/index.html Last month Chinese hackers attacked the Web site of the Melbourne International Film Festival, retaliating against the organizers for screening a documentary about exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, a film that Australian director Jeff Daniels worked on for seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3723/1/Chinas-losing-fight-with-freedom-/index.html  The Chinese government has been trying to play Big Brother to its 1.3 billion citizens ever since the creation of the internet. In 2006, the Golden Shield Project (aka The Great Firewall of China) was completed and came under scrutiny as the world turned its eyes to China for the 2008 Olympics. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3715/1/EDITORIAL-A-premier-who-would-back-down/index.html China has threatened to retaliate if The 10 Conditions of Love, a documentary about World Uyghur Congress president Rebiya Kadeer, is screened as part of the Kaohsiung Film Festival. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3711/1/Chinas-leaders-give-little-away/index.html China watchers were disappointed when Vice President Xi Jinping was not given an expected nod as the country's next president at last week's annual meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3703/1/EDITORIAL-China-cutting-too-close-to-the-bone/index.html Make no mistake: China’s influence over Taiwan’s domestic affairs is growing, and quickly. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3699/1/Guantanamo-Envoy-US-Should-Have-Taken-Cleared-Prisoners-Some-Should-Never-Have-Been-Held/index.html In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Daniel Fried came across as an eminently reasonable man placed in a disturbingly unreasonable position by his bosses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3696/1/EDITORIAL-Taiwan-must-fight-for-recognition/index.html In past years September has seen headlines about Taiwan’s bid for UN membership ahead of the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3692/1/Throwing-the-Book-at-China/index.html Every October, the German city of Frankfurt hosts the world's biggest book fair. The event is no stranger to local controversy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3690/1/-China-tightens-screws-on-Uyghurs-/index.html The Old City of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang region is facing demolition despite the dislocation it will cause to thousands of Uyghurs and the loss of a unique architectural heritage. Officials state the demolition is a necessary step for modernization, but Uyghurs believe it is another step in their assimilation into China. It is another sore case of forced modernization upon marginalized people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3682/1/Do-we-have-the-freedom-to-wear-black/index.html The one smash that the military police in Xinjiang hit out at a Hong Kong reporter completely crushed the faith Hong Kong residents have towards the central government in Beijing, as well as their hope for a democratic society promised by it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3674/1/Just-how-far-can-internal-affairs-be-stretched/index.html EVER since the 1950s, China has subscribed to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, which was first written into a treaty that it signed with India in 1954. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3660/1/One-country-diametrically-opposed-values/index.html The reaction to the beating up of three local journalists covering protests in Urumqi , the capital of Xinjiang , has underlined differences in values between Hong Kong and the mainland 12 years after the implementation of the “one country, two systems” policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3649/1/Lessons-from-the-Uighurs-Revolt/index.html G8/G7 summits held in Italy are prone to accidents despite the relatively low interest of international society: Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira died shortly before the 1980 Venice Summit, prompting Japan to send an acting prime minister, and the 1994 Naples Summit was held just after the death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. This year's summit in L'Aquila in central Italy was also plagued by an accident - riots in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3636/1/Calling-Chinas-Bluff/index.html The recent remarks of the outgoing Indian Navy Chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, where he ascribed China's economic and military prowess as beyond India's reach,  is misplaced and exaggerated given China's present and evolving tangible and intangible assets. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3635/1/Black-is-White-White-is-Black/index.html Translation of a blog post by Hong Kong blogger “Those Were the Days” entitled “In Serious Protest Against the CCP Government’s Shameless Smearing of Hong Kong Journalists, Accusing Them of Inciting Public Disorder” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3634/1/Freedom-fading-fast-in-Hong-Kong/index.html Hong Kong received sharp reminders this past week that it must continue to fight Beijing if it hopes to retain the freedoms enshrined in its Basic Law and the independence of its government agencies and judiciary. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3630/1/Xinjiang-on-Pins-and-Needles-/index.html Healing Urumqi may require more political change than Beijing can muster. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3624/1/Chinese-Nationalism-Begets-Chinese-Racism/index.html For the past two decades, China’s communist mandarins have sought the use of nationalism to offset their dubious legitimacy. In turning every Chinese misstep into a foreign affront, the regime has successfully created a sense of “China Uber Alles,” to borrow a phrase from a long-departed regime. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3600/1/How-the-US-Betrayed-the-Uighurs/index.html In June, when four Uighur detainees at Guantánamo were released to Bermuda, the media's portrayal of their story served as both distraction and palliative: Articles in many papers were written as though the United States had rescued members of an oppressed minority in China and delivered them to a tropical paradise. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3568/1/Why-Wasnt-I-Told-About-Xinjiang-Years-Ago-/index.html For many years, the plight of the ethnic minorities of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), the largest group being the Uyghurs, was almost entirely eclipsed by that of Tibet and its people, and it seems that it’s only because of recent violence and the Chinese regime’s propagandised threat of terrorism that they’ve managed to pass the threshold of media attention and popular awareness at all. Consequently, if we were to have asked people about Xinjiang several years ago, most would have had very little or nothing to say about it, unless they had a special interest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3565/1/Why-Chinas-iron-fist-will-land-on-its-own-face-/index.html THE violent unrest by the minority Uighur population in China’s Xinjiang province has dwindled down. Yet it would be erroneous to conclude that the Chinese leadership has effectively doused the fire begun by the most serious challenge ever mounted by its second-largest ethnic group against Han political control. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3564/1/Editorial-Push-for-film-ban-damages-all-credibility-/index.html A documentary to be screened tomorrow on Maori Television has already enjoyed more attention than it probably deserves. Called 10 Conditions of Love, it is concerned with a movement for autonomy and religious freedom for the Muslim Uighur people of Xinjiang, a remote Central Asian desert ruled by China. It is not a subject that would have been particularly arresting were it not for the fact that the Chinese Embassy in Wellington asked Maori Television not to screen it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3562/1/Honduras-coup-must-not-stand-/index.html Other nations will not hesitate to step into the vacuum if the U.S. fails to act. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3558/1/Hus-Journey-to-the-West-/index.html Hu pushes slash-and-burn tactics in Xinjiang to bolster his support base before key party conclave zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3554/1/Chinas-tale-of-two-restive-regions/index.html Why is it that, as cocktail glasses clink and urbane voices clatter across the Western world, China's repressive policies in Tibet are generally regarded with outrage while the plight of Muslim Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region rarely rates a mention? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3553/1/Now-for-the-overseas-fifth-column/index.html Isn’t it ironic that the more China becomes a major global player; the more it shows signs of insecurity? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3533/1/Can-China-manipulate-Western-media/index.html "Propaganda" is a dirty word, associated with authoritarian regimes that have no respect for human rights and is relied on by such governments to influence popular opinion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3492/1/Rebalancing-Relations-With-China/index.html For several decades, the global economic system was sustained by acceptance of American predominance. A vast tide of liquidity coupled with America's appetite for consumer goods had sent enormous amounts of dollars to China, which, in turn, China lent back to us for still more buying. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3478/1/Internal-CCP-Conflicts-Made-Xinjiang-Riots-Worse-/index.html Boxun.com is an online news and commentary forum that sometimes carries leaks from Chinese political circles. Late last month the site carried a report from an unnamed high-level cadre who retired from the Communist Party's 17th National Congress. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3449/1/Chinas-Public-Enemy-/index.html The alleged instigator of the Uighur riots doesn’t talk like a terrorist. Demonizing her may backfire on Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3430/1/Too-late-to-talk-about-Xinjiang/index.html I’ve wanted to write about Xinjiang and the aftermath of events because I lived there for several years.  Despite trying several times, I have not written anything for a month.  Many people have asked me over the past few weeks what I think really happened.   They obviously have their doubts about the official version of events.  So do I. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3419/1/The-Uyghurs-struggle--quotsmart-powerquot/index.html The U.S. sat helpless several months ago when the Tamil insurgency was being mopped up in Sri Lanka - with tens of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3418/1/Blame-the-Uighurs-Dont-Deserve/index.html As co-chair of the House's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, I am troubled by the premise of the July 25 news story "China, Uighur Groups Give Conflicting Riot Accounts." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3403/1/The-Urumchi-Unrest-Revisited/index.html The ugly mob violence that roiled the western Chinese city of Urumchi in Xinjiang on July 5th was rather quickly suppressed, and Urumchi is now quiet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3402/1/Uighur-Grievances-Remain-Unresolved-After-Riots-in-China/index.html Yesterday, during a visit to Japan, the prominent Uighur exile and activist Rebiya Kadeer repeated her denunciation of China’s heavy-handed response to ethnic violence earlier this month between Han and Uighurs. Upon reflection in the aftermath of the unrest, the riots should be interpreted as a glaring symptom of the communist government’s continuation of repressive policies toward minorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3353/1/Old-Problem-on-Chinas-New-Frontier-/index.html Had the August 1991 putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev not failed, the riots and death recently seen in Xinjiang could have been taking place in Russia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3337/1/We-Are-Protecting-All-Our-Citizens-Uighur-And-Han/index.html The Chinese government and people are very much displeased with the Journal's decision to publish Rebiya Kadeer's "The Real Story of the Uighur Riots" (op-ed, July 8), which is full of political lies and separatist rhetoric that are schemed to mislead the American public. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3234/1/The-Echoes-of-Xinjiang/index.html The problems in Xinjiang could prove a bigger international headache for China than Tibet was. The latter attracted much Western attention, thanks in part to the appeal of the exiled Dalai Lama. But Tibet does not have the foreign linkages that Xinjiang’s Turkic and Islamic identity do. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3202/1/Now-the-Uighurs/index.html There's a reason news of unrest in China's Xinjiang province reads a lot like last year's trouble in Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3339/1/In-China-Following-General-Tsos-Imperial-Recipe/index.html Most Americans have never heard of Gen. Zuo Zongtang, but when they hit the local Chinese takeout and order a greasy carton of General Tso's chicken, they're invoking his name. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3338/1/The-Right-Way-To-Help-The-Uighurs/index.html Unrest in China's far western region, known as Xinjiang, should not come as a surprise. The communist authorities maintain intense and unrelenting pressure on Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3335/1/Media-Savvy-in-Xinjiang/index.html The recent protests in China's Xinjiang region may provoke a sense of déjà vu after last year's protests in Tibet. There are superficial similarities: Both involved conflict between a repressed ethnic minority and Han Chinese, zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3332/1/Now-Xinjiang-Editorial/index.html The more Chinese authorities try to stamp out protests by repressed ethnic minorities, the fiercer those protests grow. Beijing should have learned that lesson after last year’s bloody anti-Chinese riots in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. It didn’t. This week, clashes in Xinjiang between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese have left at least 156 dead and more than 1,000 wounded. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3187/1/Beijings-wages-of-intolerance/index.html IF CHINESE leaders want to blame someone for inter-communal riots pitting Uighur Muslims against Han Chinese in the western province of Xinjiang, they need only look in the mirror. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3336/1/The-Urumqi-Effect/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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3331/1/What-Should-China-Do-About-The-Uighurs/index.html Riots and street protests abated on Wednesday in Xinjiang in the northwest region of China, after government forces lined the streets and arrested the leaders of the unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3333/1/Beijing-Always-Wins/index.html THE riots in the Xinjiang region, the home of China’s Muslim Uighur minority, will affirm to many analysts outside the country that social unrest is a direct threat to the continued rule of the Communist Party. If officials don’t take a long, hard look at how to avoid such uprisings, this argument will run, the government could eventually fall. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3159/1/Behind-the-Violence-in-Xinjiang/index.html The eruption of ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the most deadly recorded in decades, seems to have taken both Beijing and the world by surprise. It should not have. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3334/1/The-Real-Story-of-the-Uighur-Riots/index.html When the Chinese government looks back on its handling of the unrest in Urumqi and East Turkestan this week, it will most likely tell the world that it acted in the interests of maintaining stability. It will most likely forget to explain why thousands of Uighurs risked everything to speak out against injustice, or why hundreds of Uighurs are now dead for exercising their right to protest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3135/1/Uprising-in-Urumqi---Beijing-cracks-down-on-a-Muslim-minority/index.html Authoritarian states are typically less stable than they appear, and China is no exception. This week's ethnic riots in western Xinjiang province are the deadliest on record since the end of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700