On July 22, Time printed a news piece about "Afghanistan's Deadly Export: How the War is Spilling Over into Central Asia, by John Wendle/Moscow

Here's the lead paragraph, "When five militants, all Russian citizens, were shot and killed in a gun battle at a remote military checkpoint near Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, the Tajik government was quick to label the dead as "members of an organized terrorist group." The group has not been named, but the shootings highlight the grim irony of the struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan. With the U.S. increasing military pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan mounting security operations along its border with the country, fighters from Russia and the ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia are returning home. And while that trend decreseases the number of foreigners fighting American soldiers in Afghanistan, authorities fear it could export the violence into Central Asia, upsetting the fragile peace in the region's poorest republics."

A few days later on July 29, Chisa Fujioka wrote for Reuters, "Uighur leader says 10,000 went missing in one night."

Fujioka's lead said, "Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xingjian region went missing on one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling for an international investigation."

You may not see the bias and that is probably because you don't know that China's Xinjiang province is located east of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  All of these Central Asian countries share a border with China's Xinjiang region.

I've never seen the Western Media mention that Xinjiang is in Central Asia when reporting violence in that region of China.

Why is that Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan are called terrorists and militants, but Islamic fundamentalists in China's Xingjian province, just across the border from the Afghan war and the fighting in Pakistan are referred to as activists?

I have also never seen any mention of the fact that China has a history going back hundreds of years where the Ch'ing Dynasty had to put down several rebellions by Islamic Uighur rebels in Xinjiang province.

Compare the Time piece that said, "authorities fear it could export the violence into Central Asia, upsetting the fragile peace…" with Fujioka quoting the exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer calling for an international investigation. Later Fujioka wrote, "Uighurs, a Muslim people native to Xinjiang and culturally tied to Central Asia…"

Near the end, the piece mentions that Kadeer, the activist, lives in exile in Washington. I wonder who pays Kadeer's bills?