ABSTRACT
In the 1950s Tito's Yugoslavia took its separate path toward a more humane Communism, and the Sino-Soviet rift was occasioned by a more doctrinaire Chinese separatism that did not accept the Americano-Soviet path of coexistence amid the Cold War. That meant that each of the three powers could not converse with the other two, and this in fact turned the world into a tripolar competition, though admittedly China was the least competitive of the three. The Uighur crisis in China rapidly overflowed into a wide array of Chinese interests, both with the Islamic world and the wider world in general, as part of those axial years and beyond. The Uighurs' were concerned about the limits imposed on the use of the Uighur language in schools and on the encouragement of Muslim state officials to relinquish the Ramadan fast. These measures were construed in Muslim eyes as geared to erase Muslim culture from their midst.
