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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
A surge of ethnic violence in China in recent years has revealed growing social tensions in a country beset by developmental strains, with a political system lagging behind epic economic change. In the first half of 2014 alone, there were at least five instances of what the state defines as terrorism associated with Xinjiang, the Muslim borderland in the west. A May attack at a vegetable market in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, killed 43 people. In August, clashes in Xinjiang left nearly 100 dead. And the spread of violence to other provinces-notably in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October and at the rail station in the southwestern city of Kunming this March- has brought home the reality of ethnic tensions to Chinese citizens outside sensitive minority regions.
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