CHINA: EXAMINING THE ROOT CAUSES OF XINJIANG’S ETHNIC DISCONTENT by Stephen Blank FROM EurasiaNet

"The early July inter-ethnic violence that hit China’s western Xinjiang Province may have been shocking, but it shouldn’t have been surprising. Tension between the Uighur and Han Chinese communities had been steadily building over the past three decades, and Communist authorities in Beijing hadn’t been doing much to defuse simmering anger."