Last week, Prime Minister Hu Jintao rushed home from the G-8 summit to deal with massive unrest and deadly violence in what's called the Shin-jung Uighur Autonomous Region in China's far west. For the first time, the government announced that paramilitary police opened fire, killing two Uighurs and injuring a third.
Is China Really a Melting Pot?
Credits
Guests:
- Barbara Demick - Author, "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" - @BarbaraDemick
- Dru Gladney - President of the Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College
- Yan Sun - Professor of Political Science, CUNY
- Wenran Jiang - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta