I don't know what the Japanese are up to, but if there's one thing any country could do right now to annoy the Chinese, it's grant a visa to Uighur separatist Rebiya Kadeer. Heck, even the Turks have turned down her last two visa applications lest they annoy the Middle Kingdom. Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese have heaped all the blame for the nastiness in Xinjiang onto her shoulders ... and now of all times, the Japanese grant her a visa. It sure seems like there has to be something going on here ... the Japanese sending a message to the Chinese about something ... but what? If nothing else, it's certainly succeeded in getting under the Beijing's skin:
"We express strong dissatisfaction with the Japanese government for insisting on allowing Rebiya to visit Japan to engage in anti-China separatist activities despite China's repeated and serious representations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement issued on Monday.
