Line 21 Project coordinator Nicholas Dynon was interviewed this afternoon for an article published by CNN this evening on the recent Chinese crackdown on ‘online jihad’ in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Read the article at http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/world/asia/china-xinjiang-arrests/
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Separatist activity has long been a feature at the ethno-geographic margins of mainland China. In the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, uprisings, riots and civil violence have met with successive waves of crackdowns for decades. The labeling of such violence as acts of international terrorism, however, is a relatively recent feature of Beijing’s stance on ethnic strife… read more at The Diplomat Magazine
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