I can’t recommend highly enough this post by Chuck Kraus at the Foreign Devil blog, entitled Xinjiang, the PRC, and Egypt: The Curious Case of Ma Hanbing’s “The Nile River.” It’s got excellent graphics, judicious historical perspective, evinces solid writing and, of course, is loaded with good links…
Kraus’ post is so excellent that it receives my brand-new (that is to say, the first ever S.V.) Wen Jiabao seal of approval, via the official site for the Second People’s Congress currently going on in Beijing.