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Xinjiang Energy Risk Rises

July 13, 2009
Robert Steven Duncan
China's growing energy reliance on Xinjiang has raised risks for China's government as it tries to control unrest in the far northwestern region, experts say.

The outbreak of deadly riots in Urumqi on July 5 has been linked to the killing of two Uyghur migrant workers in an ethnic attack at a toy factory in southern Guangdong province on June 26.

But the violence also follows years of tension over the government's "Develop the West" program, focusing on Xinjiang's energy resources and... RSS Share it

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