China asks US to return Uighur detainees
When US invaded Afghanistan years back, they were shocked to see nearly 21 Chinese Uighur detainees alongside the Taleban terrorists. After months of investigation US was convinced that they were not enemy combatants, and they were kept in Guantanamo bay.
Four of them have been handed over to Albania in 2006, which is not ready to accept the balance 17 detainees fearing Chinese retaliation. Now US has tied up with Palao, a former US Pacific territory that does not recognize China to take these 17 detainees.
China is totally opposed to this, and has asked US to hand over the Uighur detainees to it, so that it can investigate their background and their network inside China. China has over 8 million Uighurs living in Xinjiang province, close to the West Asia border.