‘Where’s Our Unity March?’ China Wants to Know | Foreign Policy

‘Where’s Our Unity March?’ China Wants to Know | Foreign Policy Much discussion about the march centered on the contrast between Western sympathy for the Charlie Hebdo victims and what Chinese see as Western indifference to the deadly March 2014 coordinated knife attacks in the southwestern city of Kunming, which claimed 29 victims, and which many in China have dubbed “China’s 9/11.” The Chinese government quickly blamed that attack on Islamist terrorists from the Western province of Xinjiang, a restive region with a high population of Muslim ethnic minorities. After Western media outlets proved initially reluctant to echo the government’s assertion that terrorism was the cause, an angry backlash shook the Chinese blogosphere.http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/12/wheres-our-unity-march-china-wants-to-know/?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=15ab234345-Sinocism01_13_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-15ab234345-29615013&mc_cid=15ab234345&mc_eid=5935182a65