Bush meets China's exiled Uighur leader

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Source: AFP/Yahoo

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US
President George W. Bush met the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslims on Tuesday, US Uighurs said, as he accused Beijing of jailing her sons in retaliation against her human rights campaign.

Rights activists described Bush's meeting with Rebiya Kadeer as significant amid international pressure on China to put a stop to what they called serious human rights abuses ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008.

Bush met Kadeer at the sidelines of a conference in Prague attended by political dissidents from around the world shortly before he flew to Germany to attend the G8 summit starting Wednesday, a statement from the Uighur American Association said in Washington.

Before the meeting, Bush highlighted Kadeer as the symbol of struggle for the 10 million mostly Muslim Uighurs, the largest ethnic group in China's Xinjiang region.

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It's just amazing the talent he has for pissing people off. I mean, I sort of agree about the repression of the Uighur people, but you know that isn't why he's doing it.

[DRoseDARs]

1. Great, let's piss-off the Chinese while we're at it. Unlike Russia, China is one to worry about.

Unlike China, Russia doesn't own a huge chunk of our economic ass, nor does it have a particularly viable military right now considering its own economy is still pretty shaky since the fall of the USSR. Just paying any wage to their troops is a challenge; being able to fire an ICBM is NOT enough of a work incentive and it's just so much bluster from Vladimir Pooty-Pout Putin.

China, on the other hand, has no such difficulty.

[David__77]

2. Interesting... she was previously in the government.

She was in the national consultative conference representing Xinxiang region. It seems she become one of China's richest persons, which is especially astounding considering the region she called home. Articles alude to her husband being a separatist living abroad, and she refused to condemn his standpoint, ending her political career and likely opening herself to scrutiny only given to the disfavored.