[gleeaikin]

Given the way the Chinese have been treating the muslim Uigars (sp?), concentration camps and probably worse. The Fulan Gong people say they have also been persecuted with organs being harvested for transplant and other horrors. Who is to say some muslim terror group might not take out that dam. I doubt they care much for other Chinese ethnic groups after the way they have been treated.

[untenured]

I think much of your speculation is idle given the Panopticon surveillance state the CCP has been constructing with recent technology, much of it their own. Just recently China’s version of the US GPS became fully operational. And China’s version, you can be sure, takes no account of individual privacy.

For someone to take the dam down, or carry out any significant atttack inside the PRC, they need to evade the Chinese surveillance state. I think that is very unlikely.

[Wuli]

“Who is to say some muslim terror group might not take out that dam.”

The Uighur are not a fundamentalist Muslim group and there is not much support for them in the Uighur areas. The Uighur are not Arabs, not Turks, not Afghans, not Pakistani and not North African. They are as old, if not older, in the land of Xinjiang than the Han Chinese. THAT, NOT their form of Islam, is what sets them apart, and which they seek to preserve, and like the Tibetans which the Han Chinese want to destroy by cultural genocide. The Uighur separatists are not going to blow up a dam in central China. What they are about is being Uighur, NOT Chinese, and of which being Muslim is only one part.