Word: regionality
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...visit to the region this month, TIME talked to Khotan farmers, impoverished jade hunters, shopkeepers, students and professionals. Many of the Uighurs' stories are similar. They say that the government discriminates against them in areas ranging from job opportunities to issues such as the teaching of the Uighur language, which has been heavily curtailed, and the issuance of international passports, which Uighurs now say has been halted until after the Olympic Games in August. (An official surnamed Wu at the Foreign Affairs Department in Khotan said he wasn't aware of such a policy.) Some Uighurs, who are a central...
...Xinjiang separatists have carried out small bombings in the region and in Beijing in the 1990s, but analysts say the groups responsible appeared to have been wiped out, making it hard to know what to make of Beijing's current claims, which single out two groups in particular: the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which are also blamed by authorities for the trouble in Khotan. "It's very hard to know what to believe," says Dru Gladney, a Xinjiang specialist at Pomona College in California. "It's been very noticeable that Uighur leaders have...
...Latin America prepares "too many psychologists, not enough engineers"). Washington, he writes, is fecklessly complicit: "The Bush Administration, absurdly, [has] closed its mind to any plan that would include a greater U.S. financial commitment to growth in Latin America. For Bush and his advisers, the sole solution to the region's problems [is] free trade." Oppenheimer does see hope in successful mixed capitalist-socialist models like Chile and Brazil...
...Shaozhong, deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters Monday that the region of Inner Mongolia, the neighboring city of Tianjin and nearby provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong would strengthen air pollution controls as well, but he did not give specifics. Those measures will be key because research has shown that even if Beijing could eliminate all its homegrown emissions, pollution from the surrounding region could push the capital's air to dangerous levels. The capital is also expected to restrict the use of private vehicles during the Games...
...Iraq-sized’ no-man’s land reminiscent of Somalia, would be between Israel and Iran. Where the proceeds of the sale of Iraq’s oil—currently at $109 a barrel—would go can only be imagined, but funding regional and international jihad is a plausible guess. All of this composes a universally terrible outcome, particularly for the Iraqi people. The suggestion that withdrawing troops would bring peace is thus a dangerous fiction. Worse still is the suggestion that it would save lives or increase American legitimacy in the region. Withdrawal...