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Featured Articles and Highlights
The Uyghur Human Rights Project chooses particular articles to be highlighted as "featured."  They are listed below.


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China's wilder west
Published Yesterday | Featured Articles and Highlights
 THIRTY years have passed since the reformist Communist Party general secretary Hu Yaobang - probably the most important mentor of current party boss Hu Jintao - climbed to the roof of the Dalai Lama's Potala Palace, looked out at the lavish government buildings in the poverty-stricken capital of Lhasa and resolved to turn his government's hardline policies upside down.
China stirring resentment as its global influence grows
Published Yesterday | Featured Articles and Highlights
 In a spasm of violence this spring, an angry mob toppled the Kyrgyzstan president, torched his office and ransacked other buildings associated with his hated authoritarian regime.
Challenges ahead, but China much happier
Published Yesterday | Featured Articles and Highlights
JULIA Gillard faces a raft of challenges with China, with Australia's biggest trade and export partner most concerned about her plans for the Asia-Pacific.
Bumpy Months Ahead for U.S. and China
Published 09/7/2010 | Featured Articles and Highlights
The visit of U.S. National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon that started Sunday kicks off a historically busy period of U.S.-China exchanges on which a lot is riding in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
China Broadens Its Strategy in the South Pacific
Published 09/7/2010 | Featured Articles and Highlights
Most Westerners think of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji as the place on the label of a somewhat high-end brand of bottled water. But to those looking beyond its exotic waterfalls and beaches, the country is hardly a tropical idyll.


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