Uyghurs of Xinjiang Province in western China, a Central Asian province in the arid region of the Taklamakan Desert, face increasing persecution by the ethnic Han Chinese of the central government. Their nationalist aspirations have now led to incarceration of over a million Uyghurs in “reeducation,” or concentration camps. Modern China absorbed Xinjiang in the final days of Mao’s Communist victory in 1949. Prior to that, there had been a couple of short lived East Turkistan Republics. Who are the Uyghurs? What forces, cultural, religious, and linguistic, separate them from Han Chinese? What political and economic forces working within China are moving the Chinese central government to insist on ethnocultural unity? Consider what you have learned about One Belt, One Road when analyzing this issue. Compare Chinese statement on the policy to outside evaluations of the circumstances.
Use information garnered from your news articles, class lecture, your text books and research source to write a discussion board response (minimum 300 words) and then write a paragraph at the end of your opinion on the topic (minimum 100 words).
The regional issues profile must address the following categories and questions:
Relevant physical geography, climate, and environmental issues
Historical patterns of settlement and political control
Relevant ethnic and/or linguistic patterns
Relevant religious issues
Economic development and use of resources
Grading Rubric
China and the Uyghurs of Xinjiang
Content
o Physical, climate, environment
o Historical patterns
o Ethnic/linguistic patterns
o Religious issues
o Economic, resource development
o Issues of Evolution and Devolution addressed
o Analysis of research addresses questions of centrifugal forces at work
o Analysis of research addresses questions of centripetal forces at work
Analysis complete and well developed
Using what youve learned from all of the above, what is your assessment of this issue in its current state? Is it stable? Unstable? Support your ideas.
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Mechanics
o Grammatically correct
o Spelling error free
o References page at end of report using MLA format
o Written entirely in 3rd person
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