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...command economics can work better than Economic Man. And what of America's liberal political ideology, which used to inspire suppressed peoples everywhere? I recently gave a talk to about 30 students from China at a journalism class at a Hong Kong university. Riots had erupted in China's Xinjiang province between the indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants only days before. The subject quickly turned to Western press coverage of the upheaval, which tended to portray the Uighurs as a beleaguered minority deprived of opportunity. Why, the students asked, do Western media report stories so differently than the Chinese...
...China," says Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism expert at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and author of the best-selling book, Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. "More than other powers on its borders, this is China's number one national security concern." (See pictures of Xinjiang...
...telecast, Libi predicted China's fall, likening it to the similarly atheist and communist USSR. Some of the impoverished former Soviet states that border China's Xinjiang region - where the majority of Uighurs live - are a potential powder keg for insurgency. Suspected Uighur terrorists operating along China's borderlands allegedly have ties to Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Central Asia, who, according to observers, are consolidating in remote parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan after setbacks in Pakistan reportedly saw many foreign jihadis return to their homelands...
...born in 1957 and spent my childhood in China's remote Xinjiang region, where my father, Ai Qing, had been exiled. He was a poet, not a revolutionary, but the Communist Party had no tolerance for free thinkers. So he spent years cleaning toilets, enduring beatings and public humiliation. To me, it was a lesson in how horribly humans can treat one another...
...also expanding in less-developed western regions like Xinjiang and eastern ones like Inner Mongolia, where the company is building its 39th Chinese bottling plant. Bold moves in a downturn? Maybe, but then again, there's precedent. In the 1930s, Coke broke in to 20 new countries and territories, an expansion of 74% from the start of the decade. This decade may not quite be another Great Depression, but the strategy seems worth repeating...