Posted on 11/17/2002 9:08:32 AM PST by blam
Jihadists leave them alone because they sell nuke technology and help Pakistan make their nuclear bomb. They side with Pakistan over India. They sell Iran and other middle eastern nations nuclear and missile technology. They sell Iraq and the Taliban's Afghanistan state of the art fiber optic networks, which Iraq uses for air defense (in other words they try to shoot our planes down with it). They sell chemicals needed to make chemical weapons to Iran and other middle east nations.
The communists cultivate friendships with Islamic nations, whom they have traditionally felt solidarity with (especially the PLO).
Jihadis leave them alone because they are allies much much more than adversaries.
I suppose. But it seems to me that if an act of war was waged on the ChiComs they would not rest until hell was paid for it. In addition, I'm assuming Beijing now knows what islam is really all about, and eventually either islam is destroyed or China is destroyed.
One thing I've been hearing from sources believed to be reliable is that China is now growing at an unprecented rate and with the WTO and 2008 Olympics in the bag, they're really not interested in upsetting the apple cart, so to speak. Relatedly, this is why Pyongyang will be slapped up a bit by the masters in Beijing until they start behaving themselves.
Again, my knowledge and understanding of Chinese Communism is limited, but for the above reasons I felt that China would retaliate in a big way if this is terrorism.
Nonsense. We will get quite a detailed report on how the falun gong caused this, just before the next roundup begins.
I believe you. If my comment sounded snide at al, I didn't mean for it too.
Your response is logical, but they don't have the same values as us.
And, like I said, they made the Islamic bomb possible by supplying Pakistan with equipment and know how. Why would the Jihadis be against them?
y'know, I think I'm just going to stand corrected on this one. You're right on every count. I still do think, however, that they'll have little reservation about crushing their own Islamicists under the PLA boot.
The ultimate China can do is to wipe out most Muslims and plant their people in Muslims' territory. Muslims would disappear either by eradication and assimilation by hugely outnumbering ethnic Chinese migrants. It is a bit slow process but its effect is total and permanent. That is actually happening in ShinZhang and Tibet.
Yup. It's a world war. Them against everyone else.
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