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BEIJING — The government of the vast western region of Xinjiang, which was rocked last July by China’s deadliest ethnic violence in decades, is almost doubling its security budget this year from 2009, according to a report Wednesday in China Daily, an official English-language newspaper.
The move is an indication of how deeply worried Chinese officials are that members of the Uighur and Han ethnic groups could clash again in the cities and desert oasis towns of the oil-rich region.
