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Xinjiang is also China's most troubled region. The Uighurs, who are Muslim and of Turkic origin, are the single largest ethnic group. But over the years, their culture has undergone a whittling away, amid a steady influx of Han Chinese, who now dominate the local economy. Today, about 70...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's War in the West | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

The protests were peaceful enough at first. A crowd of some 1,000 Uighurs marched toward Urumqi's central People's Square chanting slogans about alleged police inaction after a Chinese mob recently beat to death two Uighur factory workers in the southern coastal province of Guangdong. What happened next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's War in the West | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

Uighurs, who are Muslim and of Turkic origin, are the single largest ethnic group in Xinjiang. But over the years, their culture has been threatened by a steady influx of Han Chinese. The result: resentment and unrest. The past decade has seen bombings by suspected Uighur separatists and crackdowns by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: China's Ethnic Riots | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

The Drag of Corruption Most damaging to the president, political scandals are piling up. A hundred cars given to Liberia by Arcelor Mittal in 2008 and intended to improve logistics for government officials found their way into the hands of legislators responsible for approving mining deals. Last year, according to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding Liberia | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

Any anecdotes to share? There have been an awful lot. Let me think ... There are a lot of them, and all teach me something different. Spring 2008, went to a FOB [forward-operating base], we had launched a raid, and our guys had been in combat at 5-m distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with General Stanley McChrystal | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

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