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China inadvertently promotes Islamic extremism

by Jeff Kingston

March 1, 2014, was China's 9/11. That was the day Islamic Uighur terrorists slashed their way into the collective consciousness of the country's ethnic Han majority. That fateful day, a group of eight militants launched an attack at the main railway station in Kunming, Yunnan ...

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