China's Other New Security Concern -- Its Ethnic Kyrgyz
Earlier this month, Qishloq Ovozi looked at China's recent worries about its ethnic Kazakhs and now there is information China has similar concerns about its ethnic Kyrgyz citizens.
The Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz are Turkic peoples and the vast majority are Muslims, two distinctions from Han Chinese that are the reasons for Beijing's relatively newfound and increasing unease.
The Kyrgyz and Kazakhs -- in what today is China -- mainly inhabit the western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, an area that has seen outbreaks of violence connected to another Turkic Muslim group in Xinjiang, the Uyghurs.
Continued: https://www.rferl.org/a/qishloq-ovozi-china-ethnic-kyrgyz/28697314.html
More potential problems for China with indigenous Muslim populations. They already have that problem with the Uyghurs.
Trouble in Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines just for Asia.
