Russell Leigh Moss offers up a very helpful op-ed in The New York Times that helps lay out some of the background for recent violence in China’s Xinjiang province, spelling out the region’s native Uighur population’s various grievances. He also argues that the Chinese government has gotten really, really good at crushing unrest and there’s little reason to think the regime can be forced to change from below.
Meanwhile, National Review’s Andy McCarthy seems to have decided that since Uighurs are Muslims, violent Communist Party crackdowns must be a good thing.
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