Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Acting jointly, China’s Ministry of Public Security and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China have tightened up their control over the Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan areas of China and over the mosques in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. While the [...]
RADICALISATION OF CHINESE MUSLIMS
July 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Is the jihadi ideology spreading in the Muslim community of China —- geographically as well as ethnically? Has it started infecting Muslims in provinces other than the Xinjiang Autonomous Region? Has it started affecting the Huis and other non-Uighur segements of the Chinese Muslim community? Is the Uighur separatist [...]
CHINA: A Year After Xinjiang Riots, Ethnic Tensions Simmer
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gordon Ross BEIJING, Jul 15, 2010 (IPS) – More than a year after the riots in China’s remote Xinjiang autonomous region, the country’s bloodiest ethnic clash in decades, calm has returned to the capital Urumqi. But the underlying tensions remain – tensions that Beijing will be forced [...]
XINJIANG: CHINESE ON THE GUARD, BUT FRIDAY PRAYERS ALLOWED
July 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, is tense a day before the first anniversary of the outbreak of anti-Han violence by some Uighurs of the city on July 5 last year. The anti-Han violence had led to retaliatory attacks by some Hans against the Uighurs [...]
CHINA TO DE-EMPHASISE UIGHUR IDENTITY OF XINJIANG
June 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN In the wake of the first Xinjiang Work Conference, a joint conference of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and the State Council, China’s cabinet, held at Beijing from May 17 to 19, 2010, to draft a blueprint for the region’s economic development until 2020, the Chinese authorities have [...]
RIGHTS-CHINA: ‘Give Uyghurs a Chance to Live in Peace’
November 3, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Catherine Makino interviews REBIYA KADEER, president of the World Uyghur TOKYO, Nov 3 (IPS) – Following the bloody clashes in July in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xingjian region in China, activist Rebiya Kadeer found herself in the midst of another controversy, having been accused by the Chinese [...]
RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
October 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (IPS) – An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams. ‘’We do not want to see a China that pursues the path of hegemony [...]
RIGHTS-CHINA – Children Among "Missing" Xinjiang Detainees
October 21, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Chryso D’Angelo UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (IPS) – "It was late in the evening, and we were just getting ready for bed. Three men in black police uniforms and another four in military camouflage came to our house. They said my sons have been involved in attacks against [...]
OCTOBER 1: DAY OF MOURNING IN XINJIANG & TIBET
October 4, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN According to reliable source reports from Tibet and Xinjiang, October 1, 2009, which marked the 60the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, was observed as a day of mourning by the Uighurs and the Tibetans in Xinjiang and Tibet. 2. Despite the strong security measures taken [...]
DESPITE HARMONIOUS URUMQI CAMPAIGN, CITY FAR FROM NORMAL
September 9, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN The authorities of Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, have launched a ‘Harmonious Urumqi’ campaign to improve the relations between the Uighurs and the Hans and between the residents and the administration. Under this campaign, which was launched on September 6,2009, 7,000 police officers and other public servants [...]
