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The_Face_of_Boo
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08 Jun 2020, 4:23 am

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Transnational terrorism in Xinjiang

The CCP has regularly utilised the threat of international terrorism to justify harsh restrictions against the Chinese Uyghur community. The appearance of a small number of Uyghur fighting in Afghanistan and the exposure of Uyghur to more radical elements in the international Islamic community have increased fears of potential terrorism in Xinjiang.

The notion of “terrorism” is viewed differently in China than it is in the West. The CCP views acts of political dissent, protest and cultural expression as forms of terrorism, capable of undermining CCP legitimacy. But, even by Western standards, China is experiencing terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. The Chinese, internationally recognised terrorist group Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM) has conducted more than 200 terrorist attacks in China. The TIM cite their main goal as the establishment of an independent state for the Uyghurs. Cases of radicalisation have grown in the Xinjiang region as TIM militants have found senior roles in transnational terrorist networks such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS). These terrorist organisations have increasingly targeted the Uyghurs for recruitment, condemning repressive CCP policies and attempting to lure Uyghurs to battlefronts in multiple regions.


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For instance, the "elite" Western media, out of their deep-rooted bias and double standards, refuses to recognize the violence and attacks in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as acts of terrorism. In their portrayal, only terrorist attacks on Western soil can be defined as acts of terrorism.



http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1048021.shtml

So what do you think of the term Baizuo?



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08 Jun 2020, 10:07 am

I am sure that the Alt Right will jump on the term, and use it as new synonym for "SJW".

Too much of anything is too much. And some western SJWs take it too far and deserve an epithet. But any epithet coming from, not the Chinese people, but from the Chinese ruling party- is likely to morph into a badge of honor -for those targeted by the epithet- because of how disreputable the source of the epithet is.

According to the CCP (rulers of the PPR) the Dalai Lama is a "terrorist"! The Dalai Lama is more passive than "apostles of nonviolence" like MLK, and Gandhi. If he is a terrorist then Santa Clause is also a "terrorist". Lol!

Like Tibet, the region of Xinjung in northwest China is also a restive region inhabited by a non Han Chinese ethnic minority: the Muslim Uighurs. Like the Tibetan resistance the Uighurs get branded as "terrorists". But unlike the Tibetians sometimes Uighurs have lately been doing acts of actual terrorism- apparently. And Uighurs (like Chechens, and many others from the far flung corners of the Muslim world) have long fought in the ranks of Al Queda and ISIS.

Ten years ago I was toying with writing a novel in which the US CIA engineers a false flag 9-11 type terrorist attack on China, and the CIA makes it look like the attack was done by Muslim rebels in northeast China. This gets the China scared enough of Islamic terrorism to ally Bejing with the US, and to get China to influence its ally, Pakistan, to stop supporting international terrorism, and to close down its Islamists schools that crank out terrorists- and replace the schools with secular schools by imported Chinese teachers.

Its starting to look like real life is catching up to my fiction idea! Except that the real Uighurs are producing real terrorism without our CIA helping (or maybe our CIA IS behind it. lol!).



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08 Jun 2020, 11:44 am

Sad but true sad but true :skull:


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08 Jun 2020, 1:39 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
I am sure that the Alt Right will jump on the term, and use it as new synonym for "SJW"


It's old news, and it never really took off.


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08 Jun 2020, 3:43 pm

Mikah wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
I am sure that the Alt Right will jump on the term, and use it as new synonym for "SJW"


It's old news, and it never really took off.

Two button wiping brow meme with “defending leftists” on one button and “agreeing with China” on the other.



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08 Jun 2020, 7:21 pm

The_Walrus wrote:
Mikah wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
I am sure that the Alt Right will jump on the term, and use it as new synonym for "SJW"


It's old news, and it never really took off.

Two button wiping brow meme with “defending leftists” on one button and “agreeing with China” on the other.


FTFY

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