[yonif]

Kind of weird that China is supporting Islamic terrorist states and fighting Islamists in their own country as well.

[risk]

All part of some larger strategy? Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui seems to suggest that such a policy might be attractive to China. Destabilize the west, and then sit back and seize the resulting opportunities.

[Carry_Okie]

Proxy war, a Chinese specialty.

China is more than delighted to see us blow a half-trillion a year to fight these thugs while they keep building alliances under our nose within this hemisphere. Witness their deepening relationships with Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil, all of whom are looking to carve a piece of the turkey.

[oceanview]

John Loftus has been saying this for weeks. The Saudis promised access to cheap oil for china's growing economy, plus money for the project. China is the root of all evil, stealing US nuclear secrets, providing the bomb for islam and north korea. they are the US #1 enemy in my opinion.

[tallhappy]

Kind of weird that China is supporting Islamic terrorist states and fighting Islamists in their own country as well.

Not weird because they've never been fighting Islamists.

They have fought Uighurs who are not Islamist and are most like Turkey.

They have "fought" them because the communists took over their nation and did what communists do to people and they tried to stand up to the communists.

Interestingly in China there were mosques that after 911 supported bin Laden and al Qaeda and displayed banners supporting the attacks and also street demonstrations in support of the attacks. These were not Uighur or separatist mosques. They were "patriotic' mosques.

The Chinese communists are and have long been allied with and supported the usual Middle eastern regimes and especially Arafat and the PLO.

China is the main benefactor for Iran's nuclear weapons program as well.

The communists traditionally shared the Islamist hatred for the US and other free democratic societies. They also support them on purpose (ege proliferation) to diffuse the US military and other resource so that China would have less to overcome if they ever wanted to do something the US would need to counter.

[Dave Elias]

Well, business is business.

[bert]

The support was in 1980...... today is 2004

[FreeReign]

yonif:Kind of weird that China is supporting Islamic terrorist states and fighting Islamists in their own country as well.

Washington Post:The bomb designs and other papers turned over by Libya have yielded dramatic evidence of China's long-suspected role in transferring nuclear know-how to Pakistan in the early 1980s...

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