MOSCOW — If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday.
Despite the assurances from Beijing, however, Urumqi remains on edge less than two weeks before the 60th anniversary celebration of China’s communist regime.
Chinese troops patrol in a Uighur neighborhood in Urumqi, China, September 16, 2009. a city hit hard by riots this summer and violent protests earlier this month. (Tom Lasseter/MCT)
Solutions by The State News
