Turkic Chinese soup: A barometer of anti-Chinese sentiment
By James M. Dorsey
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A heavy soup made of pulled noodles, meat, and vegetables symbolizes Central Asia’s close cultural and/or ethnic ties with China’s repressed Turkic and Hui Muslims. It also explains growing Central Asian unease with China’s re-education campa…