Xinjiang

Project Summary This project analyzes the views of the Uyghur people of XInjiang, China with regards to recent Uyghur terrorist activities. It examines the role of economic and social integration of Uyghur people into the greater China nation. It will focus on the perceived lack of control of the Uyghur people and their marginalization by the Chinese government, This project proposes that terrorist tactics become more present when no other form of expression is available to societies with less

Today, in the oil-rich Xinjiang Province of Northwestern China, millions of Turkic-speaking Uyghurs live in constant fear. Beards and headscarves banned. Mosques barred from broadcasting the azan, the Islamic invocation of prayer. Unjustified rape of Uyghur women. Protesting for basic human rights gets you written on a list of pan-Turkist counter-revolutionaries. Receiving phone calls from foreign relatives gets you a visit from the secret police. And still, to the apparent dismay of the CCP, the

war. In recent months however, China has not been lauded for unprecedented cooperation with its “strategic competitor” but has instead been criticized for using the war on terror as carte blanche to step up its “Strike Hard” campaign in the Uigher Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the northwest, resulting in

The XPCC: Farmers Who Sometimes Carry Guns and Run Prisons Faced with an alarming rise in Xinjiang violence over the last two years, Beijing is searching for a high-visibility, public solution. Most recently, officials’ attention has settled on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), known informally in Chinese as bingtuan (‘Corps’). While it has been a martial organization in name and structure since its inception, the international media is getting ahead of itself in playing up

former Qing Empire territory was in the allegiance of China. Subsequently, in 1916 after the suppression of the anti-colonial rebellion in 1932-1934. During dispossession, collectivisation and famine some Kazakh tribes migrated from Kazakhstan to Xinjiang and took Chinese citizenship [16]. The main concentration of the Kazakh migrant fell on Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia and China. Due to the special historical and political circumstances, one nation was artificially "split"

Biodiversity Hotspot of the Mountains of Central Asia Central Asia is associated with seven countries: Western China, Southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, northeastern Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Central Asia has many sub-regions, a wide range of altitude belts, and surrounded by some world’s highest mountain ranges, such as the Tien Shan and the Pamir, the latter is known as the “roof of the world”. The mountains of Central Asia have a high level of biological diversity due

The violence that is occurring in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region amongst the Uyghurs and the Han-Chinese, stems from the conflict and debate between the Uyghurs and the People Republic of China (PRC) in 1975. According to Gardner Bovington, there is a diverging perspective on the history of Xinjiang; to the Chinese historical perspective, in 1795, once the “Qing general conquered the vast territory […it became] an integral piece of Chinese national territory” (Bovington 2). While to the Uyghurs

movements started in 1933, their primary aim was to create a sovereign state called East Turkestan within the region currently known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (XUAR). This thesis seeks to answer the question of how the Chinese government’s policies towards the Uyghur’s, a Turkish Muslim group living predominately in the North Western Chinese province Xinjiang, have influenced the political strengthening of the Uyghur’s. The aspect of this question will be explored: Have the Chinese policies

China_A brief introduction: China, a socialist country in East Asia, is the world 's most crowded nation. Its unfathomable scene includes field, desert, mountain ranges, lakes, waterways and 14,500km of coastline. Beijing, the capital, blends cutting edge building design with memorable destinations including sprawling Tiananmen Square. Its biggest city, Shanghai, is a high rise studded worldwide budgetary focus. The famous Great Wall of China fortress runs east-west the nation over north. It practices

the Communist Party and the Uyghur ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, home to many of China’s ethnic Turkic Muslims. Even in the face of adversity, he has been outspoken and quick to criticize the missteps of the Communist Party’s governance and policies towards Xinjiang province and its Muslim minorities. Due to that, the CCP views him as a threat, rather than a solution, to the extreme affairs of episodic ethnic and political unrest in Xinjiang. With the growing resentment from the Uyghur populous towards