China’s ethnic tremors
The charge of supporting Uighur terrorism, even if leveled only by local Chinese officials, reflects China’s irritation with Pakistan’s inability to contain the cross-border movement of some Uighur separatists. China, however, confronts not a proxy war or even foreign involvement in Xinjiang, but rather a rising backlash from its own Uighur citizens against their Han colonizers. And the Uighurs are hardly alone. Even in Tibet – where resistances to Chinese rule remains largely nonviolent and there is no alleged terrorist group to blame.