China's Dangerous Delusion
Paul Mooney, a freelance journalist, has been reporting from Beijing since 1994.
Beijing's response to the Uighur massacre is just like its reaction to last year's Tibet uprising-self-denial and scapegoating. Until the party honchos realize their own abusive rule is to blame, they'll face increasing challenges to their power.
Guerrilla Footage of Uighur Unrest in China
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Riots in the western Chinese city of Urumqi have left 156 dead and hundreds more injured-and as in Iran, protesters have been uploading their own cellphone videos of the violent clashes. Caution: Some of the footage is graphic.
China has deployed 20,000 troops to control riots between the Uighur minority and the Han majority that have left 156 dead. What's the real story behind the violence?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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