Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Multiple origins and one body is the characteristic of China, unlike its claim that it is a one-unified nation. Ethnic unrest in Xinjiang challenges the resilience of the CCP and the state. Repeatedly there is a belligerent movement for independence labeled by the Chinese authorities as separatism. Xi Jinping and the CCP leaders have become ultra-nationalist and have adopted a hardline approach on the Uyghurs to curb their protest and wipe out an entire ethnic community violating human rights provisions. Discursive framing of the Uyghurs as terrorists and securitizing the Xinjiang region gives an idea that China is taking leverage to execute its brutal policies. Acts of the authorities have radicalized the Uyghurs as they feel insecure for their security and also for political and economic gains. This paper offers a vigorous theoretical understanding, which is required to analyze whether the Uyghur terrorism as claimed by China fits into the waves of terrorism or not or ethnic unrest is the case of ethnicity theories of rational choice benefit or socio-psychological analysis.