Posted on 08/14/2008 11:55:59 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China's tough Xinjiang policy backfires
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - China's success in eliminating clusters of Muslim insurgencies in the western province of Xinjiang may have pushed an alleged separatist movement across the border into Pakistan and Afghanistan, exposing it to greater influences by jihadi groups in those countries.
With the Beijing Summer Olympic Games well underway, the Muslim majority province of Xinjiang has seen a spate of deadly attacks on government establishments and security personnel. Three violent incidents over the past 10 days have been interspersed with the release of two videos threatening the Olympics. In the latest assault, which took place on Tuesday near the border city of Kashgar, three security staff manning a road checkpoint were stabbed to death.
"Since the beginning of this year we have seen the deployment of some new tactics by insurgents," says Professor Chu Shulong, head of the Institute for International Strategic Studies at Qinghua University. "They are no longer targeting civilians by planting bombs on buses as they did in the 1990s but attacking government personnel, army and the police. This is aimed at winning the general population on their side."
While difficult to be independently verified, the incidents showed a high level of coordination, creating a thread of unrest in southern Xinjiang through a series of bombings and armed assaults. In one incident two attackers rammed a truck into a group of police in the city of Kashgar and then attacked them with knives and homemade grenades, killing 16. Another attack followed several days later, with bombers hitting 17 targets, including a police station and a government building in the city of Kuqa.
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Now, Jihadis and communists are duking out on this land.
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It would be interesting if China were to seek US advice on counter-insurgency doctrine :)
What, China doesn’t love the Taliban anymore? Islam is such useful fodder for the Bear and Dragon.
FYI - China holds $800 B of Fannie May and Freddie Mac backed by US Treasury notes. China recently considered yanking out liquidating all notes but the Bear said NO! We are to go into economy tailspin for a few more years slowly. China is not our friend and never has been. They are merchants of our trinkets and we exchanged real wealth for junk. Watch there attitude by the end of this year toward the United States and it’s allies.
What do you mean “the Bear said NO!” ? I’m not saying that China is our friend or ally. As for their shares of FM and FB, I can’t think of a worse thing to invest in. It’s bad enough being an American taxpayer.
This is coordinated economic strategy against the United States. It didn’t start out that way, but Karl Marx was right, someday the Marxists would sell the rope to hang ourselves with. We exchanged asset backed security for debt and the amount is not tiny. When Russia and China feel we are at another weak point economically, they shall add to the damage. Now Russia at some point will be betrayed by China itself. You must remember that all nations are opportunists and serve there own interests. This is one big game for a huge prize, the international monetary peg of all global currencies. It is a prize America held for 50 years and how we accelerated our superpower status as the lender. We have now become the borrower. But unlike times of say, 1987 the US is beholden with to service that debt. Bonds are already being traded at AA rating, although it is not official yet. We have become a bannana Republic :( The greedy and stupid that consolidate power over an empire tend to this repeatedly over and over in history. The net result which fixes it:
1) Revolution
2) Voter Revolution (if possible, think Venezuela and the wolf in sheeps clothing)
3) Nation is conquered
...including Americans who look for someone to blame other than Americans.
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