The urumqi crisis: Effect of China's ethno-national politics

Strategic Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-13

  Panda, Jagannath P ^a  

^a SIIS   (China)

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EID: 79952105118     PISSN: 09700161     EISSN: 17540054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09700160903354898     Document Type: Note

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1. This was expressed by a Uyghur person whom I met in Shanghai on July 9, 2009 (name not to be disclosed under request). He belongs to the Xinjiang region, but has been working in Shanghai for many years for better employment.
2. My interaction with the same Uyghur person in Shanghai (name not to be disclosed under request).
3. 'Xinjiang ... China's Wealth Land', Islam Online, July 12, 2009, at http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1246346256945&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout (Accessed August 14, 2009).
4. Wenran Jiang, 'New Frontier, Same Old Problem for China', The Globe and Mail, July 9, 2009.
5. 'Urumqi Police Detain Another 319 People in Riot Probe', Xinhua, August 3, 2009, at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6716389.html (Accessed August 9, 2009).
6. Mu Xuequan, 'Evidence Shows Rebiya Kadeer behind Urumqi Riot: Chinese Government', Xinhua, July 8, 2009, at http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/09/content_11676293.htm (Accessed July 26, 2009).
7. Stirling Assynt, a risk analysis company, published a report that Al Qaida's North African wing vowed to avenge the deaths of Muslim Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region by targeting Chinese workers in Algeria. According to the report, in the Islamic Maghreb said that it wouldtarget the 50,000 Chinese workers in Algeria and Chinese nationals and projects across northwestern Africa.
8. Tania Branigan, 'Al-Qaeda Threatens to Target Chinese over Muslim Deaths in Urumqi', The Guardian, July 14, 2009, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/14/al-qaida-threat-china-urumqi (Accessed July 20, 2009).
9. This is what most Chinese experts and scholars believe. Hu Shisheng, an expert in China Institute for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) (Beijing) said that the Chinese government never anticipated that the problem in Xinjiang would go to this extent. He also said that the time has come that the government has to seriously re-think its minority policy. Interview conducted on August 10, 2009 in CICIR, Beijing.
10. 'China: The Potential Complications Arising from Xinjiang', Stratfor, July 8, 2009, at http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20090708_china_potential_complications_arising_xinjiang#top (Accessed August 3, 2009).
11. Edward Wong, 'Clashes in China Shed Light on Ethnic Divide', New York Times, July 7, 2009, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/asia/08china.html?_r=2&ref=world (Accessed August 5, 2009).
12. Chien-peng Chung, 'Confronting Terrorism and Other Evils in China: All Quiet on the Western Front?', China and Eurasia Quarterly, 4(2), 2006, p. 76.
13. Ibid., p. 78.
14. Edward Wong, n. 9.
15. Chien-peng Chung, n. 10, p. 81.
16. Randall Peerenboom, China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007, p. 85.
17. 'Tension in China's Xinjiang Province Threatens to Spread Globally', ABC Radio Australia, July 14, 2009, at http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/200907/s2625843.htm (Accessed August 8, 2009).
18. 'Iran Urges China to Observe Rights of Muslims', August 3, 2009, at http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=429787 (Accessed August 16, 2009)