Google ID is needed to participate in this poll. Participate by posting a comment.The purpose of this poll is to query moral boundaries, complexity of those boundaries (such as absolute non-violence versus conditional law and order) , accepted norms of statecraft (e.g. supporting a State's right to defensive posture versus a borderless world ethos), mystical/religious culture versus secular/scientific/industrial culture, and many more levels. |
Question 1Would you (vested within a legal capacity) kill Uighur terrorists? |
Question 2Do you believe China has a prerogative to kill Uighur terrorists? |
Question 3Do you consider the migration of Chinese Han people into Central Asia as a positive or negative trend? |
Links to news articles and snippets on the Uighur issue are below.Note that as a generalization, Han Chinese represent the more industrial and Marxist group, and Uighur represent a Sunni Islamic group. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang#Demographics
Chinese Population According to the 1990 census:
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
| Uighurs | 7,200,000 | 45% |
| Han | 6,885,000 | 43% |
| Tajiks | 33,000 | .2% |
| Salar | 3,000 | .02% |
| Kazakhs | 1,100,000 | 6.8% |
| Uzbeks | 15,000 | .09% |
| Russians | 3,000 | .02% |
| Hui | 600,000 | 3.8% |
| Yellow Uighurs | 11,000 | .07% |
| Boan | 300 | .001% |
| Kyrgyz | 150,000 | .1% |
| Tibetans | 5,000 | .03% |
| Other non-Chinese | 9,000 | .06% |
| Ethnic Manchus | 90,000 | 5.6% |
| Tartars | 5,000 | .3% |
| Dongxiang | 40,000 | .25% |
| Dawani | 5,000 | .3% |
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