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...converted as new opportunities arise, saying that "wireless has the potential to transform the Internet the way the World Wide Web transformed Arpanet." Other major cities seem to agree: Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City are toying with the idea of going wi-fi too. --By William Han...
...light of such sentiment, the Imam for the Nanren West Mosque, surnamed Li, says relations between the Hui and the Han have reached their lowest point in his lifetime. "Even though we have no connection with terrorists, the Han now have prejudices against us that come from negative international ideas about Muslims," he says. Five days into the martial law that was declared in Zhongmou county, only the Hui were still prevented from leaving their villages, even though the Han also participated in the violence. At roadblocks across the county, police scanned cars looking for people wearing Muslim headgear...
...China has quietly celebrated the peaceful coexistence of its 55 ethnic minorities and the majority Han. True, discontent simmers in the provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang, where Buddhists and Muslims have clamored for independence, and various other Chinese minorities claim they are held back economically by the Han. But ethnic tensions in China seldom turn violent. Especially well assimilated is China's largest Muslim minority, the Hui, who number some 10 million and are scattered throughout the country. After centuries of intermarriage between Han and Muslim merchant families, the Hui, who first came to China in the 7th century...
...have been discriminated against because of their religion-and there are some worries that marginalizing the Hui could radicalize them in the same way that previously apolitical Muslims have been radicalized elsewhere in the world. "The terrorists from the Middle East are the same race as the Hui," says Han farmer Geng (though they are not). "Their character is cruel and aggressive...
...ethnic turmoil metastasize. The Chinese press did not report news of the clashes until Monday evening, when a brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into more widespread unrest as with ending ethnic tensions. Just...