China said on Thursday that it would mount a sustained campaign to restore security in Xinjiang, combining mass mobilisation of communist party units in the region with a pledge to deal ruthlessly with the “criminals” behind the week’s violence.
Hu Jintao, the president and communist party head, convened an emergency meeting of the leadership, the nine-member inner-circle of the Politburo, hours after arriving home on Wednesday from his truncated G8 trip to Italy.
