Some think that while the Uighurs have always made China nervous, it was a riot in 2009 between Uighurs and majority Han Chinese in Xinjiang that touched off China’s current feeling that “something needs to be done” about Uighur Muslims. Originating in Urumqi, the region’s capital, the bloody riots left two hundred dead and massive destruction in their wake.

QUESTION: What exactly did China's post-2009 policy shift entail? Worth tracing the causal chain from the riots to specific security measures.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 167