The .... is hitting the fan
Big Trouble in Big China?
We must control and regulate meat cleavers.....
Gee. Where’s the Left’s OUTRAGE here (as opposed to their outrage in Honduras’ president getting overthrown and deported)
Such crap.
Seems a bit out of character for muslims to be involved in such violent situations...
Love and peace is busting out all over in the 000bam-era.
The nation that cleaves together..........
ahh, forget it.
/sarc
Aren’t some of these peaceful people now in Bermuda, courtesy of the US taxpayers?
There are quite a few recent clips of the rioting on YouTube.
Some here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wIQRZyNbAg
Hard to know who’s really most at fault.
Send Obama in!
In China, the further a province is from Beijing, the less likely it is to follow the CCP in all ways. There is quite a bit of autonomy for the provinces, so long as they don't push back on major initiatives. The western provinces (Tibet (called XiZang" in China), Xinjiang, and QingHai make up their "west coast"... and 2 out of 3 certainly seem to be getting punished for failing to toe the line. In the internet age, these failures to obey are magnified, and thus the dragon's attention is compelled to make sure that they don't "lose face". Almost predictable, really.
good old fasioned Han to Hand warfare..
Mobs weilding meat cleavers beat people in Chinses streets.
I object to the term ‘Beat’.
The title should read “ mobs weilding meat cleavers TENDERIZE people in Chinese streets.”
Thank you.
There were not any Chinese in this region (Han or otherwise) until about 100-200BC. This whole region was Caucasian up to that time and have been losing to the Chinese ever since. There Caucasian only graveyards in the region that were still being used as late at the 1300’s AD.
Obama... quick, send in the human shields.
I suppose it would be anti-PC to remember the little Chinese sidekick to the Blackhawks comic book characters who carried a meat cleaver and was called Chop-Chop.
Or am I in the throes of Alzheimers?
Heads up, Bermuda!
"URUMQI, China - After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived."
"The research, which the Chinese government has appeared to have delayed making public out of concerns of fueling Uighur Muslim separatism in its western-most Xinjiang region, is based on a cache of ancient dried-out corpses that have been found around the Tarim Basin in recent decades."
“It is unfortunate that the issue has been so politicized because it has created a lot of difficulties,” Victor Mair, a specialist in the ancient corpses and co-author of “Mummies of the Tarim Basin”, told AFP
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WSJ:
Uprising in Urumqi
Beijing cracks down on a Muslim minority.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124698224912106465.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. Until the Chinese government is truly accountable to its citizens — both the majority Han and other ethnic minorities — these kinds of deadly uprisings will continue.
Sunday’s riots started when around 3,000 ethnic Uighurs, including many high-school and college students, gathered to protest ethnically motivated killings in a factory in China’s southern Guangdong province. The riots turned violent but, thanks to China’s information firewall, no one knows exactly why. State-run media report that Uighurs had attacked Han Chinese and count at least 156 people killed and more than 1,000 injured.
Government outlets blamed Uighur “separatists” and labeled U.S.-based Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uighur Congress, the “mastermind” of the violence. Ms. Kadeer denies this in an article on a nearby page. Yesterday, thousands of Han Chinese, armed with homemade weapons, swarmed the streets of Urumqi, calling for revenge. Police stopped them with tear gas, but not before they had destroyed some Uighur shops. Other protests and violent outbreaks ripped across the city.
China’s draconian policies in Xinjiang stem in part from fears that the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group who speak a Turkic language, want to secede from China. The province is rich in oil and gas reserves and shares a sensitive border with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Russia (which has tried to foment uprisings in Xinjiang in the past). There are about 10 million Uighurs in Xinjiang.
But these fears are no excuse for China’s punitive and often violent suppression of the Uighurs. Beijing has poured money into a quasimilitary conglomerate, the “Bingtuan,” which runs businesses and large farms in the region. Bingtuan jobs often go to Han Chinese immigrants who receive economic incentives to move west. Meanwhile, a 2006 government policy encourages migration in the opposite direction — i.e., getting young Uighur men and women to work in coastal factories. The program is designed to get young Uighurs to “integrate” (read: marry) into Han society.
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