Posts Tagged China

Uyghurs and China: Christian Tyler

Uyghurs and China: Christian Tyler Christian Tyler, author of 'Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang' disusses the recent history of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and the changing relations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese (August 2008). Part of the Xinjiang Video Project: www.archive.org/details/xinjiang-video-p roject

January 25, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Chinese minister says “respects” Turkish ties with Uighurs

Chinese minister says "respects" Turkish ties with Uighurs Article Source Friday, 08 January 2010 09:20 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey and China may carry out joint investments in third countries. Erdogan, who received Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming, said around 100 Chinese businessmen would attend a meeting to be held in Istanbul on Friday. Erdogan said Turkey and China were the inheritors of two civilizations rooted in history.

January 8, 2010 No Comments Full Story

China’s Mystery Mummies (New Vidoes 1-5)

China's Mystery Mummies China's Mystery Mummies. 1/5 China's Mystery Mummies. 2/5 China's Mystery Mummies. 3/5 China's Mystery Mummies. 4/5 China's Mystery Mummies. 5/5

August 2, 2009 No Comments Full Story

Shifting sands tell the tale of the Chinese west

 Shifting sands tell the tale of the Chinese west By Howard W. French Published: June 12, 2008 Article Link A local farmer leading a row of camels at a tourism resort of the Kumtag Desert in Shanshan county, China, in October 2007. (China Daily, via Reuters) DUNHUANG, China: There has never been a marker on the ground in this area, and had there been, it would have been long ago removed, but through much of its long history, the country we know today as China has largely petered

June 12, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Chinese flight returns after “suspicious” remarks

Chinese flight returns after "suspicious" remarks Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:46am IST Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained five people, possibly Tibetans, whose "suspicious remarks" prompted the return of their flight half an hour after take-off, local media reported on Monday. China has tightened security of its airways ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August and says it foiled a plot last month by Muslim Uighur separatists to blow up a plane. The flight on Sun

April 15, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China, Tibet, Olympics boycott: Germany’s Merkel won’t go

China, Tibet, Olympics boycott: Germany's Merkel won't go Article Link Edward M. Gomez March 31 2008 There was a time, long, long ago, when athletes from around the ancient world would gather, without clothes and without making political pronouncements, to let it all hang out - their enthusiasm for the spirit of competition, that is - and get on with games in which victories would bring resounding honor to the kingdoms, regions and powerful city-states they represented. Apparently, ti

April 1, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China and its minorities

China and its minorities International Herald Tribune Philip Bowring Monday, March 17, 2008 Non-Han minorities may comprise only 9 percent of China's population, but as the violence in Tibet and simmering resentment in Xinjiang  indicate, the problem is one that Beijing is unable to resolve. This is a  blow to President Hu Jintao, who is supposed to be an expert on Tibet, where he was once party secretary. He ordered troops as well as police forces into Tibet and Xinjiang last year

March 17, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China rejects U.S. attack on human rights

China rejects U.S. attack on human rights CNN BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report released a day earlier that characterized China's human rights record as one of the most repressive in the world. The report was released five months before the Summer

March 13, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China links plane arrests to terrorist group; Uighurs protest

China links plane arrests to terrorist group; Uighurs protest Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:52:04 GMT Source: earthtimes Beijing - China on Tuesday linked an attempted attack on board a plane to international terrorists, as exiles belonging to the Uighur ethnic group accused the government of a "hidden political aim" in raising recent allegations of terrorist plots. Officials from China's far western region of Xinjiang said on Sunday that airline staff had foiled an apparent terrorist attack on a fli

March 12, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China denies ‘creation’ of terror attack

China denies 'creation' of terror attack Source: scopical China has sought to reduce speculation over rumours it may have falsely 'created' the threat of a terrorist attack against its country to frame a militant group. In the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, China has been accused by some of fabricating a story about a plot to crash a jet airline in order to frame part of the Uighur Muslim people. The Chinese Government said that the claims were false, and that a foreign liquid was

March 12, 2008 No Comments Full Story

China parliament delegates call for Xinjiang crackdown: report

China parliament delegates call for Xinjiang crackdown: report Article Link March 08, 2008 AFP BEIJING (AFP) — Delegates to China's parliament have vowed to step up a crackdown on ethnic unrest, separatism and religious extremism in the western region of Xinjiang, state press said Saturday. "We will never slacken in our fight against these evil forces," the China Daily quoted Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region as saying. "We should stay on high alert all

March 9, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Gang ‘plotted attack on Olympics’

Sunday, 9 March 2008, 12:23 GMT BBC Gang 'plotted attack on Olympics' China sees the Beijing Olympics as key to its international prestige Suspected militants arrested in western China earlier this year were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics, a Chinese official says. Two people were reported to have been killed and 15 arrested in a raid on 27 January in Urumqi, Xinjiang province. Officials now say their aim was to attack the August Olympics. The alleged plot was disclos

March 9, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Dispatches From China’s Wild West: (5 ): China’s Nessie

Dispatches From China's Wild West: (5 ): China's Nessie from: Joshua Kucera Article Link KANAS LAKE, China—We were heading north, toward the Russian border. The flat, brown steppe we were driving through is considered to be a part of Siberia, ecologically speaking. The area is inhabited mainly by Tuvans, who are famous among world-music fans for their throat-singing prowess and who, according to legend, are the descendents of Genghis Khan, who used the place as a staging ground for hi

March 8, 2008 No Comments Full Story