Xinjiang Violence Highlights China's Pakistan Problem
By Guy Taylor,
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Trend Lines
Recent violence in the China's western Xinjiang province has resulted in more than a dozen deaths and prompted an aggressive security response by Chinese authorities, who assert the unrest is being driven by Muslim separatists trained in Pakistan.
The accusation, leaked to China's state media Monday, came as the head of Pakistani intelligence was making a visit to Beijing and exposed a potential sticking-point in the oft-celebrated alliance between the two countries. ...
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