No Referendum for China

... sentence to ethnic Uyghur Ilham Tohti, a former lecturer at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, for supporting separatism in Xinjiang. Beijing did not see Mr. Tohti as the intellectual spokesman of the Uyghur movement and a counterpart ... ... 2010, Mr. Tohti posted a "survey of ethnic relations in Xinjiang," claiming that it was based on polls held in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, which indicated that 12.3 percent of the respondents view independence ...