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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This is part of a supplementary address by Comrade Jiang Zemin at the Central Committee's Taiwan work meeting. For some time already, ethnic separatists in China's Xinjiang and outside its borders have been rampantly active and have brought serious harm to Xinjiang' stability and development. We must be highly alert and take strict precautions. Our leading cadres and especially high-placed cadres must inform themselves about both the historical and current circumstances of the so-called East Turkistan issue touted by Xinjiang's ethnic separatist forces. The Xinjiang region has since ancient times maintained close contacts with the motherland's Central Plains. From the Han dynasty up to the mid and late Qing dynasty, Xinjiang and its surrounding regions came under the general designation "western regions." In the second Shenjue year of Han Emperor Xuandi, or 60 by the Gregorian calendar, the western regions were officially incorporated into the motherland's territory. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the central government continued to exercise administration over the western regions, and Tang Emperor Taizong substantially strengthened its jurisdiction over that vast region.
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