No Referendum for China

... country's unity. It symbolically reacted to the Scottish referendum last September 23 with a court in Urumqi handing down a life sentence to ethnic Uyghur Ilham Tohti, a former lecturer at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, for supporting separatism in Xinjiang. The verdict has exploded in the West, but China has remained unimpressed, with its Foreign Ministry labeling the declarations as interference in internal affairs under the pretext of "defending democracy and human rights." Chinese media has come down hard on foreigners who conceal their ...