No Referendum for China

... university chair and his own website for propagandistic purposes. One excerpt from his case in particular is notable. In November 2010, Mr. Tohti posted a "survey of ethnic relations in Xinjiang," claiming that it was based on polls held in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, which indicated that 12.3 percent of the respondents view independence as a tool to settle Uyghur-Han relations, while 81.3 percent favor high-degree autonomy . However, the investigation ...