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BENNINGTON, Vermont -- The ethnic uprising in mainland China's far Western province, has sent seismic political jolts to Beijing. The rioting by Turkic Muslims in the vast Xinjiang region reminded Beijing's Marxist Mandarins that non-Chinese minorities be they Muslim or Buddhist as in Tibet, are not exactly on the same page as the rulers of the People's Republic. Given that in October the People's Republic will celebrate the 60th anniversary of communist rule on mainland China, such ethnic rumblings in their far Western region are particularly embarrassing as much as they could be foreboding.