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China Manages Internal Security Challenge,” p. 73. For another,
less objective point of view, see “Elite People’s Liberation Army
Troops Enter Lhasa,” March 21, 2008, available from www.phayul.
com/news/article.aspx?id=19930&t=1.
74. “Transcript: James Miles interview on Tibet,” CNN, March
20, 2008, available from www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/
tibet.miles.interview.
75. Wang Kaiwen, “西藏:遇突发事件通信永不中断" (“Tibet:
when meeting with unexpected incidents, communications will
never be cut off”). 西藏商报 (Tibet Financial Daily), June 18, 2009,
available from xz.people.com.cn/GB/139190/9500021.html. The Tibet
Emergency Response Communications Bureau could be designed
primarily to deal with natural disaster response, to respond to
ethnic unrest, or both.
76. Wang Guanghui and Li Jun, “努力提高边疆地区后备力量
的应急维稳能力” (“Strive to improve the border area reserve forces’
emergency response and stability maintenance capabilities”),
国防 (National Defense), Vol. 6, 2008, pp. 40-41.
77. Zhu Ze, “First armed police law set to pass.”
78. “武警平息暴乱职责拟立法明确” (“Armed police responsibilities
for riot control to be clarified in legislation”), 华夏都市报
(Huaxia dushibao), August 25, 2009, p. 6.
79. Ibid.
80. See the discussion in Yitzhak Shichor, “The Great Wall of
Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang,” in S. Frederick Starr, ed.,
Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2004,
pp. 120-160.
81. James A. Millward, “Violent Separatism in Xinjiang: A
Critical Assessment,” Washington, DC: The East-West Center,
2004, pp. 10-22. See also James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads:
A History of Xinjiang, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007,
pp. 322-334. The following overview of violent incidents in Xinjiang
draws on Dr. Millward’s work. For another interpretation
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