{"id":458,"date":"2012-11-11T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-11-11T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:25:14","slug":"what-happens-in-xinjiang-or-china-is-not-only-beijing-and-the-cpc-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"What happens in Xinjiang? Or, China is not only Beijing and the CPC congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days of 18th CPC congress (\u5341\u516b\u5927) frenzy, it can be interesting to note that many other things happen around China. A few weeks ago news emerged about an attack on a border post in Kargilik county (\u53f6\u57ce\u53bf), south of Kashgar in Xinjiang. The attack occurred on Chinese national day 1 October. A young man rode his electric bike (\u7535\u5355\u8f66) into a border post, and around 20 people were killed or injured<\/a>\u00a0in an explosion. The border post was in\u00a0Kokkowruk village (\u9614\u53ef\u5bc7\u70ed\u514b\u6751)\u00a0in Chasamechit township\u00a0(\u6070\u8428\u7f8e\u5176\u7279\u4e61).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not long before the attack, but well ahead of the party congress, state news agency Xinhua (\u65b0\u534e\u793e) started a dedicated Uyghur news page<\/a>. It almost immediately came under fire from Uyghur exiles<\/a> for ”brainwashing” Uyghurs. But how many people trust official Chinese media without reflection, even in Xinjiang? Maybe no-one cares, but maybe it also fits very well with CPC media strategy and with giving an image of multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

The media focus on the CPC congress is understandable, but one may also learn much about what happens in China through watching other areas, following trends and events outside Beijing. It is highly unlikely that anything unexpected would happen at the CPC congress, and that Xi Jinping and other leaders-elect would make drastic changes day one of their term of office. Therefore it is more interesting to look into the play on the sides, the protests in the countryside \u2013 and the games around leaders even further on in time. It seems that even Xinjiang may play a part in the game.<\/p>\n

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”Iron fist against terror” \u2013\u00a0Nur Bekri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2009 the Chinese journal Huanqiu renwu<\/em> \u73af\u7403\u4eba\u7269 (Global People, a subsidiary of People’s Daily<\/em>) published an interesting article<\/a> on the questions of youth and \u201cthe 6th generation\u201d leaders. Xinjiang governor Nur Bekri<\/a> (Nu’er Baikeli \u52aa\u5c14\u00b7\u767d\u514b\u529b) was ranked among the top five of ”the post-60” (60\u540e) CPC leaders, the generation born after 1960. He is portrayed as a ”scholar ruling the region” (\u6587\u4eba\u6cbb\u533a) and an ”iron fist against terror” (\u94c1\u8155\u53cd\u6050). What do we make of this? Nur Bekri and the four others (Zhou Qiang \u5468\u5f3a, Sun Zhengcai \u5b59\u653f\u624d, Hu Chunhua \u80e1\u6625\u534e and Lu Hao \u9646\u660a) were predicted to become top party leaders in 2022, at the 20th CPC congress. The idea that an Uyghur would even be considered is quite astonishing, even if it is only a token ”affirmative action Chinese style”. It has never happened before. But will there be a 20th CPC congress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These days of 18th CPC congress (\u5341\u516b\u5927) frenzy, it can be interesting to note that many other things happen around China. A few weeks ago news emerged about an attack on a border post in Kargilik county (\u53f6\u57ce\u53bf), south of Kashgar in Xinjiang. The attack occurred on Chinese national day 1 October. A young man … <\/p>\n

Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201dWhat happens in Xinjiang? Or, China is not only Beijing and the CPC congress\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2crM2-7o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}