China’s leadership takes a more businesslike approach to the Far West

After nine months of debate following the major riots in the Xinjiang region in the summer of 2009, the Chinese leadership has decided to add the carrot of economic development to the stick of the security clampdown that was triggered by the ethnic violence in the capital of Urumqi. A Communist Party Central Committee meeting at the weekend ended with a statement which “stressed that economic and social development in Xinjiang should be pushed forward in a sound and speedy manner”. Party...

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