Posted on 07/10/2009 1:47:06 PM PDT by traumer
The explosion of violence in China's wild north-west is a long, long way from Beijing's corridors of power. And yet it has sent shock waves through the very heart of the country's communist regime.
Yesterday, as thousands of troops moved in to crush the uprising, the authorities vowed to execute the perpetrators of the unrest, which has left more than 150 dead and 1,100 injured.
On the surface, the rioting in the town of Urumchi appears to be a brutal, ethnically-motivated, but localised, clash between the native population and migrants flooding in from elsewhere in China. In reality, however, it is a symptom of a crisis that may yet bring the country's ruling regime to its knees.
China's rulers know these riots are about more than just ethnic tensions. It is true that Muslim Uighurs resent the state-sponsored inflow of ethnic Chinese migrants into their region, Xianyiang.
In recent decades, the Uighurs, like the Tibetans to the south, have become a minority in their own land.
This is certainly the angle pushed by China's official media, which is denouncing the Uighur protesters as pro-independence 'splittists' in the hope they can rally the wider population against them.
But what really worries Beijing is that these protests are indicative of a much more dangerous problem - and one that is by no means confined to the country's remote areas.
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Hopefully they make it in something other than Xtra Small Chinese soldier sized.
China is an evil empire.
The Chinese bought more cars than America in the first months of this year. They want their condos,big screen tvs
and a car!
They will get hem, while the eco-terrorists in this country take them away from us.
China isnt listening to that Global warming crap, and they arent letting immigrants run their country either.
They are being a bit rough about it, but I am not sure they are all wrong.
‘cuse me if I don’t shed too many tears when a Muslim cries “oppression”.
Who was it that said revolution was just 3 missed meals away?
Replacing us Americans as the consumers of the world economy?
Wow. Just .... wow.
Do you normally channel Charles Lindburgh, or is this new for you?
No sympathy here either
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