如果是这样的话，我们听到的可不是在新疆首府乌鲁木齐的镇压行动，而是数百人在哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图喋血街头，而专栏作家能与之相比较的，则可能是上一年在乌克兰利沃夫市爆发的某场乌克兰人独立运动。
Instead of hearing about a crackdown in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, we might be reading about hundreds killed on the streets of Almaty, and columnists would be making comparisons to the bloody crushing of Ukrainian independence demonstrations in Lvov the previous year.