The New Dominion

A 15 May lecture by Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Xia Lin (夏林) at Tianjin Foreign Studies University began making the English-language media rounds today. You can find the English translation of the lecture, transcribed by [...]

The first wave of Uyghur actions in Urumqi on Sunday evening brought at least a thousand people, mostly young Uyghur men, probably members of Urumqi’s small middle class, into the streets. They occupied public spaces [...]

UPDATE: Xinhua claims that the Urumqi authorities dispatched 20,000 police and military personnel to quell the riots. They used “tear gas grenades, stun grenades, and high-pressure water guns” on the demonstrators. Others have suggested that [...]

There are now several videos of the Urumqi protests on-line: In the video above, you can see a youth smashing the window of a donkey meat restaurant. The Uyghur-run Arman grocery store next door, however, [...]

TND has received word that, as of around 7:30 PM local time/9:30 PM Beijing time, there is a riot in progress at the Grand Bazaar in Urumchi.  Reports, so far unverified, claim that riot police [...]