China boosts security presence in Xinjiang
- Written by TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in China have greatly expanded their police and security presence in Urumqi, the capital city of the country’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which borders Central Asia, amid increasing Uighur independence movements including those that the Chinese government believes have links to Islamist terrorist groups in the Middle East, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
