On March 14th last year, when riots broke out in Tibet, the authorities reacted by clamping down on information and the entire region was sealed off.
However, faced with a similar situation last week: inter-ethnic violence in the city of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region - the reaction was very different. Few restrictions were placed on foreign media and within hours they were arriving in Urumqi in their dozens.
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