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Hu Jintao to Uighurs: Don’t expect any change in Beijing’s hard line
President Hu Jintao’s high-profile visit to Xinjiang is a sign that the restive region has been brought under control at least for the time being. Hu, also commander-in-chief, spent four days in Urumqi — scene of the worst ethnic violence in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo has also sent a message to the 9 million Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs: don’t expect any softening of Beijing’s scorched-earth policy toward the “three evil forces” of separatism, terrorism and religious extremism.
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An ethnic Uighur man walks in front of armed Chinese paramilitary police in riot gear as they patrol a main street in the city of Urumqi.
Reuters
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