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2003-12-15 East Asia

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Posted by Steve 2003-12-15 9:00:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Some of these are legitimate nationalist resistance movements we should support, not help quash.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-12-15 10:46:59 AM|| 2003-12-15 10:46:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Surprised they didn't take another shot at the Dalai Lama while at it. They like him about as much as the others. For the same reason.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-15 11:33:00 AM|| 2003-12-15 11:33:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Zhang Fei, do all these bombings actually happen and if so are the targets civilian? Remember several years ago when some Iraqis attempted to assasinate Uday. I wouldn't call Udayicide an act of terrorism.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-15 11:36:01 AM|| 2003-12-15 11:36:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Zhang Fei, do all these bombings actually happen and if so are the targets civilian?

The Uighurs are doing IRA-style bombings with few civilian casualties. They're also attacking security personnel (reputedly 1 million Chinese troops of all kinds in East Turkistan). It looks like they're trying to send a message to the Chinese government.

The Chinese government generally retaliates by arresting and executing male family members. College students are not allowed to practise the faith on pain of expulsion. An Uighur businesswoman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for advocating Uighur autonomy.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-12-15 6:05:54 PM|| 2003-12-15 6:05:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess I would call them partisans. I know there is uranium that the Chinese want in Tibet. There must be something they want in Turkistan. 1M troops is quite and occupation force.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-15 7:43:05 PM|| 2003-12-15 7:43:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 There must be something they want in Turkistan. 1M troops is quite and occupation force.

Natural gas and oil. East Turkistan is also where the Chinese test their NBC (or WMD) arsenal. 1 million troops is nothing - excluding the land annexed to other provinces, East Turkistan is almost 4 times the size of Iraq. East Turkistan's population is about 11 million, many of whom are unemployed because of systematic Chinese discrimination, and the Chinese policy of moving in Chinese settlers at the expense of the locals (just as in Tibet). The several millenia-old Chinese expedient of setting up penal colonies in newly-conquered lands has also been used to change the demographics of this colony.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-12-15 11:52:00 PM|| 2003-12-15 11:52:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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