LINKTV Deutsche Welle Journal March 8, 2012
china drew at least temporarily closer to the u.s. the reason: beijing fears separatist forces in their islamic western provinces. china has a delicate relationship with its ethnic and religious minorities. to understand the interactions between two asian cultures, we travel to the frontiers of han and muslim china in the city of lanzhou. but lanzhou's location-- and its future-- on this frontier have much to do with the region's physical geography and natural resources. ( blowing heavily ) narrator: for centuries in this part of china, rafts like this were an important means of tran...