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dc.contributor.authorMackerras, Colin
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-22T01:41:50Z
dc.date.available2017-05-22T01:41:50Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn10966838
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12140-015-9224-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/71101
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses how the situation in China's most northwestern province-level unit Xinjiang has affected China's overall foreign relations since disturbances in its capital ܲ쭱i in July 2009. Xinjiang's most populous ethnic group is the mostly-Muslim Uighurs. The paper assumes a framework that puts a high priority on China's facing west. Though no more important than the eastward-looking foreign policy that has dominated Western analysis, the paper sees China's facing west perspective as deserving more attention than it has received. Russia and Central Asian countries have been positive about China's economic aims in the region. However, friction has increased with China's rise, Chinese authorities tending to blame Xinjiang's disturbances on Islamism in Central Asia. China resents the USA for giving asylum to Rebiya Kadeer, president of the anti-China World Uyghur Congress. In 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed the idea of a BNew Silk Road^ in Central Asia for peaceful economic development. China has long espoused the "Silk Road" idea, developing its own "Silk Road Economic Belt." Damaged due to the 2009 riots, the China-Turkey relationship has improved because of various visits and agreements since 2010. The paper balances the dominantly economic Silk Road concept against Islamist terrorism. It argues that the aims of the Silk Road and Silk Road Economic Belt are sensible and practical, with positive economic relations the main trend. However, although the Central Asian "zone of conflict" is a lesser trend, tensions are serious and long term, especially those caused by Islamism and Islamist terrorism.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom25
dc.relation.ispartofpageto42
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEast Asia
dc.relation.ispartofvolume32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160607
dc.titleXinjiang in China’s Foreign Relations: Part of a New Silk Road or Central Asian Zone of Conflict?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This is an electronic version of an article published in East Asia, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 25–42, 2015. East Asia is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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