The Uyghur discontent in Xijinang province has the potential to be catastrophic for China and more notably, the CCP. As mentioned in Hasting’s article, the Chinese state has taken 3 distinct policies to deal with the secluded Uyghurs. At first the state focused on using economic and social development to please the Uyghurs, then they brutally cracked down on Uyghur dissent, and then they joined the United States’ counter-terror program following 9/11 (used the Uyghur’s Sunni Islamic religion to tie them with Al Queada) and were able to effectively seclude them more. While this has succeeded in the sense that the Chinese government can better monitor the  Uyghurs, the reality is that the Chinese state is making a mistake by isolated them. Isolating the Uyghurs will succeed in solving the CCP’s current political goal of preventing collective action by the minority group, however by sending the Uyghur resistance underground the Chinese state is inadvertently hardening the resistance and forcing extremist views to take hold. The CCP should not only pursue policies of economic development in Xijinang province (as to alleviate poverty), and should focus on providing the Uyghur youth employment opportunities not just in the state, but in the party as well. Doing this would foster a sense of loyalty to the party and state, and would cause the Uyghur youth and the CCP to become inter-dependent on each other, thus revealing tensions.  However, the Chinese state has still focused on secluding the Uyghurs. This poses a risk to the stability of China as the Uyghur resistance has the potential to explode in violence as it is reminiscent of the Chechnya-Russia conflicts.