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Parent topics
- Central Asia [r]: A geographic area with many definitions, one common one based on the newly independent, predominantly Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union [e]
- China [r]: The most populous nation on Earth, third largest by area. [e]
- Uighur [r]: A Turkic ethnic group originally from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. [e]
Subtopics
- East Turkestan Independence Movement [r]: A separatist movement for Uighurs, which, with some controversy, has been designated a terrorist organization [e]
- Tibet [r]: plateau region of Asia homes to various groups, including the majority indigenous Tibetan people; known as 'the roof of the world'. [e]
- Turkic languages [r]: Language family of Asia and Europe. [e]
- Uighur detainees in Guantanamo [r]: Prisoners captured in Afghanistan by the U.S., and determined to be members of an anti-Chinese organization not opposed to the U.S.; they are in limbo as they cannot be sent to China but other countries have been reluctant to take them [e]
- Afghanistan [r]: A Islamic republic in Central Asia, with an unstable but elected government; borders China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan [e]
- Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union; after a coup, it successfully held democratic elections [e]
- Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation [e]