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Willy is an excellent writer, and very eloquent.

However, I have one question for him...

Anti-Beijing "terrorist" forces in Xinjiang have killed more than 40 people and injured 330 since the early 1990s, according to officials in the autonomous region.

So they took 40 of 'yours' but how many of 'theirs' have the CCP taken since the 1950s?

Mao tried to reconquer a land and a people that were conquered by the Qing, and they did it in no different terms than the Qing did...

Therein lies the problem.

Also, how many of the acts have been terrorism. Terrorist acts are killing civilians, like blowing up buses and things. The ChiComs state this:

Quoting officials, the paper said separatists and terrorists had killed or tried to assassinate senior cadres as well as "patriotic religious personnel" in the region, including a vice-chairman of the regional Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

All these targets were Chinese Communist Party. That's not terrorism. That's insurrection, civil war, rebellion, whatever you call it. But not terrorism.

The fact is the Chinese Communist party has closer ties and links and dealings with the Taliban and al Qaeda than the East Turkestan movement does. They didn't buy US cruise missiles from al Qaeda or build fiber optic networks for the Taliban, but the ChiComs did.