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Rioting last week between ethnic Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province left 180 people dead and 1,000 injured. Chinese police and paramilitary forces arrested 1,500.
The Beijing government insistently weighs media coverage of China. The ethnic clashes so troubled Chinese President Hu Jintao that he left the G-8 economic summit. Hu's hasty departure, in front of the cameras of every global news organization, indicates how serious the Chinese government views the violence in its far northwestern province.
Though officially designated the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the region is not autonomous and, as time passes, less Uighur....
China's Strategic Challenges Go Well Beyond the Uighurs
No doubt look at Aum Shinrikyo.
Of course not all conflicts in regards to different religions is a religious conflict.
My point was to Jason was that if Tibet under HHTDL was a Dalai Lama lead state it would not per se be like Iran under Ruhollah Khomeini trying to export Buddhist revolution. As for missionaries go, China is not to fond of that either and looking at their history perhaps for good reason. Bit in any event Tibet should be free to pick whatever government it likes and that is fro Tibet to decide not Jason...so in Chinese, Xizang yigai jueding Xizangde...