Many news outlets carried the story yesterday about the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kyrgystan. No Chinese were killed but the embassy was hit with a car bomb that blew out windows and injured three local embassy employees.
Geography is not my strong suit, so I looked this place up. When you see where it is, it might create an "Oh yeah" kind of moment. It is located in the northwest corner of China, sharing a large border with it. That part of China has not been a great place to live since the Uighurs, largely Muslim population decided to cause trouble for the resident Chinese. There have been all manners of incidents, including a particularly graphic stabbing of people at a train station.
This particular incident may indicate it is getting to be more difficult to do much terrorism in China. It might not have been the Uighurs in this case, but they are the likely suspects when there is an explosion anywhere that targets Chinese in that part of the world. I'm guessing it was and more will follow. Kidnappings, murders, and the like have caught on everywhere. Kidnapped oil company employees have already found the Chinese. Like other countries, China will find it difficult to control things outside their own borders.
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