Check this out from Business Insider (read the whole story at their house)....
China's ruling Communist Party announced on Sunday the removal of the military chief of restive Xinjiang from the region's governing council, following a car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square blamed on Islamist militants from Xinjiang.Think about it.
The official Xinjiang Daily said in a brief front page report that Peng Yong had been sacked as a member of Xinjiang's Communist Party Standing Committee, and would be replaced by Liu Lei, an army veteran with more than a decade's experience in the region.
The newspaper gave no reason for the move, but the party frequently removes top officials following such incidents as it seeks to apportion blame.
The incident was especially embarrassing for the stability-obsessed party given the billions of dollars it spends every year on domestic security, not only in Xinjiang but across the country, and that the crash happened in the heart of Beijing.
Even China is dealing with radical Islam. The most violent religion on the planet is even terrorizing a communist police state.
If doing a partnership with the major powers of the planet to fight radical Islam isn't the missed opportunity of the century then I don't know what is.
Oh and spare me the nonsense that there is cooperation on the intelligence front. You want to make the Mullah's quake in their boots? Have a joint Russia, China, US, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, S. Korea, Germany, France operation hitting sites worldwide and announced publicly.
The developed and developing world share the same problem.
Instead of attacking it, we instead decided to make a bunch of platitudes about "the religion of peace" and crack down on our own citizens instead.
Historians will laugh at our incompetence.
I bet you couldn't point out the differences between Islam and Christianity if a gun were put to your head. There is substantially no difference, jackass.
ReplyDeleteyeah i could. Christians don't strap bombs on to the bodies of themselves or their children in the name of their God.
DeleteA US-China partnership may not interest Washington, and in fact there is some evidence that problems with the Uyghur people in China's Xinjiang Province have a US influence. Washington promotes US interests not China's. From ChinaPost: "The Chinese government blames the July 5 rioting in Urumqi on overseas-based groups agitating for greater Uighur rights in their Xinjiang homeland."
DeleteThe National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, non-profit, grant-making organization that receives an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress through the Department of State.
The NED in turn supports local organizations in many countries to promote US interests via non-governmental organizations. The NGO's have been evicted from several countries, including Egypt and Russia. There are several NED-supported NGO's operating in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/asia/china-xinjiang/east-turkistan
wait. i those were two different issues. i've heard of several independence movements in China including this one but i didn't know they were Islamic based. as a matter of fact all the ones of heard of are buddhist religions.
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_China
ReplyDeleteThere is somewhere between 20 to maybe 50 million Muslim Chinese and they have been there for centuries so even if just a small segment becomes radicalized, China would have a big problem on it's hands.
Well, as much as I like the idea of the Great Powers getting together in a Grand Coalition to fight the Global Counter-Insurgency against Radical Islam, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the US getting too cozy with China. You did say China is a communist police state. So if things get too rough for Beijing, will they think twice about getting rough with the Uyghurs?
ReplyDeletethe Chinese couldn't afford to. they can't afford the international outcry from such a crackdown. additionally they can dry up support if they can team with the international community and show their military working in a positive way instead of inflaming passions throughout the Pacific.
Deletelast, the economic benefit that they could reap would be tremendous. suddenly they get into places where they're frozen out. Europe would spread its legs to welcome them in fully. Russia would warm to them...especially if they slowed down immigration to their country...the world becomes their oyster if the Chinese gets smart.
democrats in the US would wet themselves to see us "working together"...and the pentagon would be left dumbfounded.
First up you would have to clean up with your best friends in the gulf ,Saudis a the rest of the gulf dictatorships have their fingers in just about every radical islamist pie around the world.
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