Uighurs and Xinjiang

Distant thunder: Separatism stirs on China’s forgotten frontier - FT

Uighur challenge to Chinese hegemony - FT

China's forgotten people - New Statesman

Uprising from the ashes of history - CBC

China and the Enduring Uighurs - Stratfor

The 'Hanification' of Xinjiang - Asia Times Online

China's tough Xinjiang policy backfires - China's success in eliminating clusters of Muslim insurgencies in the western province of Xinjiang may have pushed an alleged separatist movement across the border into Pakistan and Afghanistan, exposing it to greater influences by jihadi groups in those countries. - Asia Times Online

Backlash Over Chinese Handling of Muslim Minority - Experts Wonder if China's Crackdown on Muslim Minority is Fueling Violent Sentiment - ABC

Analysts: China crackdown fueling attacks - AP

Deadly attacks give China experts pause - Analysts had seen official Chinese warnings of a terrorism threat as exaggerated and serving to justify authoritarian practices. Not now. - LAT

China faces life or death struggle say Communists - Times

Separatists trained abroad, says Beijing - FT

China's Uighurs Wary, Worried After Attack - WP

Useful Exotics - The Fate of China's Minorities - Spiegel

Last spring

Just like America, China is building a multi-ethnic empire in the west - Tibet and Xinjiang have the misfortune of having resources the Asian giant wants, and being on the path to resources it needs - by Parag Khanna , Guardian

The Conqueror of China’s Wild West - How the west was won on China’s Islamic frontier - Asia Sentinel

Is Xinjiang the Next Tibet? , by Nicholas D. Kristof - NYT

China's Ethnic Tension Isn't Limited to Tibet - Tension in Xinjiang Remains High Between Local Turkic Uighurs and Han Settlers - WSJ

Quiet death in Xinjiang - Tibet is not the only Chinese province to suffer barbaric treatment from its Beijing masters - Guardian

Tackling China - Curfews, headscarf bans and mass detentions. A Uighur activist discusses the protests against Beijing - Newsweek

Uighurs struggle in a world reshaped by Chinese influx - In China's far west, the Muslim ethnic group finds itself relegated to menial jobs. Chinese officials also restrict religious practice and use of their language in schools - CSM

China and its minorities - IHT

Ethnic Unrest Continues in China - NYT

China's multiple victims include its own public - IHT

Suspicious story

China Reports Suspected Terrorist Activity - NYT

China 'falsified' terror plots - Al Jazeera

Pakistan link to failed plotters - Reuters

This summer

Uighur Justice - WSJ

China is making a Frontal Attack on our Ethnic Identity , interview with Rebiya Kadeer - by Joshua Kucera, EurasiaNet

China's Still-Wild West - Beijing imposed heavy security on the Olympic torch’s passage through Xinjiang Province , by Robert D. Kaplan - The Atlantic