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Is China Really a Melting Pot?
First the Tibetans, now the Uighurs, are challenging China's central authority. Can 56 very different cultural and linguistic groups continue to get along? Also, questioning begins in confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. On Reporter's Notebook, the F-22 warplane: Pentagon spending and jobs.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenFirst the Tibetans, now the Uighurs, are challenging China's central authority. Can 56 very different cultural and linguistic groups continue to get along? Also, questioning begins in confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. On Reporter's Notebook, President Obama threatens a veto to stop building the F-22 warplane in favor of weapons he says US troops "actually…need." Republicans—and Democrats are worried about jobs.
Banner image: Ethnic Uighurs go about their daily lives in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. Photo: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesFirst Day of Questioning in Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
Under grilling by Republican Senators at her confirmation hearing today, Judge Sonia Sotomayor firmly denied racial bias.
Read the story8 minIs China Really a Melting Pot?
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.
Read the story36 minThe Fate of the F-22 Fighter Jet
President Obama says if Congress votes to spend more money on the F-22, he'll veto the $680 billion military spending bill for next year. The dispute over the warplane has created strange bedfellows. Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts oppose the President's insistence on shutting it down.
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