{"id":411,"date":"2014-03-03T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T12:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-03-03T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T12:23:52","slug":"are-ethnic-tensions-on-the-rise-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Are Ethnic Tensions on the Rise in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #ff0000;\">Are Ethnic Tensions on the Rise in China?<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>On December 31, President Xi Jinping\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QobjqUTdahQ\" target=\"_blank\">appeared<\/a>\u00a0on CCTV and extended his \u201cNew Year\u2019s wishes to Chinese of all ethnic groups.\u201d On January 15, Beijing officials\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1413164\/uygur-scholar-ilham-tohti-accused-separatist-offences-prosecutors\" target=\"_blank\">detained<\/a>\u00a0Ilham Tohti, a leading Uighur economist and subsequently accused him of \u201cseparatist offenses\u201d; a fresh report shows arrests of Uighurs for \u201cendangering state security\u201d in Xinjiang\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duihuahrjournal.org\/2014\/02\/xinjiang-obscures-state-security-stats.html\" target=\"_blank\">rose<\/a>\u00a0sharply last year; and the number of Tibetans who have taken their own lives in public\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2014-02-11\/woman-voice-tibet-china-and-world\" target=\"_blank\">protest<\/a>\u00a0against Chinese rule has recently surpassed 120 since February 2009. \u2014The\u00a0Editors<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/are-ethnic-tensions-rise-china\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/are-ethnic-tensions-rise-china<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">___________________________________________<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Ethnic Tensions on the Rise in China? On December 31, President Xi Jinping\u00a0appeared\u00a0on CCTV and extended his \u201cNew Year\u2019s wishes to Chinese of all ethnic groups.\u201d On January 15, Beijing officials\u00a0detained\u00a0Ilham Tohti, a leading Uighur economist and subsequently accused&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=411\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}