The New Dominion

James Millward, a Xinjiang scholar at Georgetown who recently published a definitive history of Xinjiang titled Eurasian Crossroads, has published a piece at The China Beat discussing the evolution of the media perception of the Uyghurs from deliberate obscurity to gracing the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Millward also analyzes the potentially explosive role the Guantanamo Uyghurs may play as the Obama administration forms its China policy.