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How China Twists the History and Events of East Turkestan
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A foreign journalist's special dispatches during her recent trip to East Turkestan organized by the China's Foreign Ministry in order to mislead the foreign journalist group to confirm the Chinese government's interpretation of both history and events in East Turkestan.
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Uighur Intellectual Who Won’t Back Down in China
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 ILHAM TOHTI rarely worries about his personal safety here — at least not at the hands of would-be thieves. That is because Mr. Tohti, an economics professor and unofficial spokesman for this country’s embattled Uighur minority, frequently has a police escort.
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Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices From The 2009 Unrest In Urumchi
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 A new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) examines the unrest that took place in July and September 2009 in Urumchi, the regional capital of East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or XUAR) through the accounts of Uyghur eyewitnesses.
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BEIJING TIGHTENS UP CONTROL OVER MONASTERIES & MOSQUES
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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.
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China Today magazine to launch Turkish edition
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The Turkish edition of China Today magazine will go on sale in major cities of Turkey starting from Sept. 1, which is expected to promote mutual understanding between Turkish and Chinese people and facilitate the two countries' business relations.
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The China Syndrome
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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.
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Scrutiny for Chinese Telecom Bid
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Warning about a potential threat to national security, eight Republican lawmakers have asked the Obama administration to scrutinize a bid by one of the biggest corporations in China to supply telecommunications equipment to Sprint Nextel in the United States.
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Chess on the High Seas - Dangerous Times for U.S.-China Relations
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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.
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How to hold a news conference, Chinese provincial style
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Follow along with Mary Kay Magistad’s special dispatches on her trip to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, in China’s far west and the largely ethnic Tibetan province of Qinghai. Part 3
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Make China Account for Its Dismal Human Rights Record
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China’s human rights record is dismal and not improving. Successive editions of the U.S. Department of State’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices have documented China’s lack of progress in human rights, ranging from continued abuses in Tibet to imprisonment and harsh treatment of political prisoners to a general crackdown on religious groups that are not sanctioned by the government.
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More Arrests in Aksu Blast
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 Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region arrested two more Uyghurs Sunday in connection with a bomb attack, residents said, as they enforce a blackout on information about the incident.
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Elderly Farmer Recaptured
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 Chinese authorities have recaptured an 84-year-old ethnic Uyghur farmer after he escaped from detention in Beijing, where he went to protest the loss of his farmland, his son said.
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On the Road with the Chinese Foreign Ministry: Anatomy of an Explosive Story
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Follow along with Mary Kay Magistad’s special dispatches on her trip to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, in China’s far west and the largely ethnic Tibetan province of Qinghai.
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China’s Secure Communications Quantum Leap
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In May 2010 a team of 15 Chinese researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a government-directed research center, published a research paper announcing a successful demonstration of “quantum teleportation” (liangzi yinxing chuan) over 16 kilometers of free space. These researchers claimed to have the first successful experiment in the world.
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Hawks vs. Doves: Beijing Debates “Core Interests” and Sino-U.S. Relations
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An intriguing divergence of views has been exposed within China’s foreign-policy establishment on how to handle the country’s worsening ties with the United States that may highlight a growing dissonance between China’s civilian and military establishments.
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PLA Expands Network of Military Reconnaissance Satellites
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On August 9, China launched the remote sensing satellite Yaogan-10 (military designation: Jianbing) into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.
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Slain Policemen 'Checked' Uyghurs
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Police officers killed in a bomb attack Thursday in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region had harassed ethnic Uyghurs, singling out men with beards and women wearing traditional head coverings, according to police sources.
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Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang kills seven
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Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said.
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Blast kills seven in China's Xinjiang
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Seven people have been killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast in China's Xinjiang region.
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Stability and Development Twin Concerns for China in Central Asia
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China has tied its western development to its foreign policy initiatives, pushing roads and communication links west at the same time it is building influence and prestige through programs like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and low interest loans in exchange for concessionary oil and gas rights.
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China threat: Now you see it, now you don't
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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.
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China's Border Patrol
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The Pentagon just released its annual report to Congress on China's military. Weapons programs got ink, especially its cyberwar programs, its expanding navy, ballistic missile projects.
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Taiwan Fails to Learn From Its Own History
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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.
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