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The crisis where?

Why some world trouble spots get all the attention

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By Joshua Kurlantzick
July 19, 2009

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Over the past two weeks, deadly clashes in the Xinjiang province of western China have hit the headlines, highlighting the deep tension between the Uighurs - the Muslim, ethnic Turkic people native to the province - and the ethnic Chinese inhabitants who have settled there more recently. (Full article: 1542 words)

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