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Ambassador to Nepal.
Kyrgystan, adjacent to China and three former Islamic states of the USSR is in the process of recreating itself after prestroika. What happens when the organizing authority, even an alien one, dies?
In Xinjiang, where Muslim Turkic-speaking Uighars constitute a majority of the population, the Han Chinese have been determined to integrate them into the People’s Republic of China.
These Asian highlands and deserts have historically been hinges, separating and uniting cultures and empires since the beginning of historic times, yet they are unknown both geographically and culturally to most of us. The Ambassadors Coon will help us to see them as isolated and strange no longer.
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