The Xinjiang conflict is an ongoing separatist struggle in the Peoples Republic of China PRC farwest province of Xinjiang Uyghur separatists Predominately Muslim Turkish and Mongolian Ancestry ID: 399041
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The Xinjiang conflictSlide2Slide3
The Xinjiang
conflict
is an ongoing
separatist struggle
in the People's
Republic of China
(PRC) far-west
province
of XinjiangSlide4
Uyghur separatists
Predominately Muslim
Turkish and Mongolian Ancestry
Minority, however eighty percent of
Uyghurs
live in the Xinjiang province
Have ties to other radical Islamic terrorist groups in bordering countries
Want to create an independent state “East Turkmenistan”Slide5
Historic
Xianjiang
Independent Province of China
Ruled by Muslim
Govenors
Came under direct Chinese rule in 1949
XinjiangSlide6
Xianjipang
since 1949
Persecution
Cultural Revolution
Government responses
Stimulus packages-Mao
Poverty gap-Deng
President Hu Jintao-separatism, extremism and terrorism
Stemming issues
Separatist grasp for freedom. Slide7
Today
Three people were confirmed dead and 79 others were injured, including four seriously injured, in the terrorist attack at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang on Wednesday evening
President Xi stresses Xinjiang's stability vital to whole nation
War on terror. Slide8
American Views
Same terrorists groups we are dealing with
Captured Uyghur in Afghanistan and Iraq
Chinese trade