We don’t have such large scale evangelical meet ups where I live in upper state ME.

I don’t think the stories coming from Xinjiang should be dismissed as mere ethnic tension either. What I’ve read so far is starting to convince me that the tensions are a result of government policy and have led to what one Taiwanese editorialist called a situation that is “diabolically stupid” and one of China’s own making. There is the long term policy of the government treating Xinjiang akin to the Wild West with pioneers,i.e. chinese, moving in to help the government “civilize the natives”/exploit natural resources of the area. Black gold! IMHO it is always a little suspicious when economic development in a region like Xinjiang benefits everyone except a certain ethnic group. And yet some of us in the West are buying the party line that the problem with Uighurs is their refusal to assimilate (sinicize themselves) and low, low education and cultural levels.Try subsituting “act like white people” for “sinicize themselves”. Which brings up the U.S. The Bush administration in trying to get China’s UN approval made concessions. That included the State dept. putting a bogus defunct terrorist group (ETIM) on the State Dept. Terra list. It has been suggested in hearings and otherwise that the Chinese considered this tacit approval for a cranked up “crack down” in Xinjiang. And it is probably why the U.S. held 22 innocent uighur refugees in Gitmo.
I’ll leave off by quoting the same Taiwanese editorialist: “Despicable acts are made more unbearable by the silence of those who seek benefits from oppressors. “

In China they have great distrust in Capitalism because they’ve been told for a very long time that it doesn’t work. So, for them to fear less (to fear not at all would be foolish) they need to immediately reap some benefits of the new economic form.

Without benefits there is no way they can bear the costs of displacement and disruption to their lives.

Christians – You are needed in Afghanistan!
Please call 1-800-USA-ARMY
Volunteer for “11 Bravo” Infantry
Come Fight Your Christian War
Relieve the Troops at the Front!

You activists can print up hundreds of these with little or no cost and we can step up into DIRECT PASSIVE ENGAGEMENT with the neo-conservative voting block by asking they serve as Infantry Soldiers in Afghanistan. It is best if you go with a veteran. I was wearing an Obama t-shirt and as a veteran went alone. I was surprised by the 2 things:

1)One group of people would not take anything from my hand thinking I
was filthy or diseased and this is part of the secular evangelical racism and classism that exists when someone different does not think and act like they do. They see dissenters as scum.

2)The other group reacted with disdain but once he or she read the small piece of paper requesting Infantry service, there was stunned silence and no reply as they were being asked to volunteer for Infantry duties in Afghanistan.

DO NOT ARGUE with these people if they wish to argue. Just say “Thank You
for getting into the U.S. Army INFANTRY,” as they take a slip of paper. We must get veteran’s groups to bring these pieces of paper with this writing to Evangelical Revivals and begin to penetrate the republican voting block of evangelicals. This must be performed now as the republican strength is waning and the party is falling into dissolution. Pro-democrat Veterans must lead the way. Here are the reference pages of Evangelical Revivals. http://www.elca.org -Lutheran Evangelicals. http://ag.org/top/ for the Assembly of God revivals. Distribute “Infantry Service” request as they exit the revivals. – Michael Angelo 99

China and the US are very far from treating each other in a manner which will produce the close coordination required to avert a next, deeper, crisis.

Have to agree with you here; and we’re so intertwined, we can’t not “get along”