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"Amnesty International has documented that, since 2001, “tens of thousands of people are reported to have been detained for investigation in the region, and hundreds, possibly thousands, have been charged or sentenced under the Criminal Law; many Uighurs are believed to have been sentenced to death and executed for alleged “separatist” or “terrorist” offences.”
The Chinese Foreign Minister's euphemism was long and unsubtle. “I shall assure you that our Government is fully capable of maintaining social stability and ensuring the security of tourists,” he said yesterday, even though the security of tourists is a minor issue in the anti-Chinese unrest spreading outward from Tibet.
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee's upbeat statements on China, the resumption of trade at Nathu La after 44 years and the composite dialogue process with Pakistan notwithstanding, many in the Indian military establishment are sceptical of "true and lasting" peace with the two neighbours.
China's forays into Latin America are part of its grand strategy to acquire "comprehensive national power" to become a "global great power that is second to none."
Before the highway arrived last year, threading a strip of black pavement across a moonscape of pale sand, this town in central Xinjiang province was among the lonelier places on earth.
