beyondfantasy3 113M
2003 posts
9/27/2014 4:59 am
What will China ultimately do?


(From News)
One might expect China to be heavily invested in the international fight to stop Islamic State jihadists from taking over Iraq and Syria: For starters, China is the number one investor in Iraq's oil industry. Yet, Beijing is almost nowhere to be seen in anti-IS coalition discussions. Why?


There are reasons enough for China to get involved. The Asian giant’s economy depends on the Middle East for half its imported energy. China now imports more oil from the region than the United States does, and is the largest investor in the Iraqi oil industry.

And as the Chinese authorities step up their battle against increasingly violent Muslim separatists in the western province of Xinjiang, Islamic State leaders boast of Chinese recruits to their self-declared caliphate.

China’s contribution to the international military assault on Islamic State targets, however, is a timid offer of “intelligence sharing and personnel training” (end news)
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Interesting, after 10 yrs plus of America spending Trillions in Iraq, China comes out with the highest investment in Iraq oil. How Amazing, but they have not stepped up to help with any efforts to rid the area of the terrorist threats.

I guess it will take ISIS to capture enough Refineries which are part of the Chinese Supply line before it will do anything.
If that becomes the Case, and the West Re-take those Refineries, then the "coalition nations" should send China a bill for much of the expense to re-take the refineries, if China does not step up contribute something to fight this Terrorist group.


(from news)

China’s contribution to the international military assault on Islamic State targets, however, is a timid offer of “intelligence sharing and personnel training” by Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

China’s rulers are reluctant to get more heavily involved for a number of reasons, say analysts here, ranging from their mistrust of American intentions to a fear of being sucked out of their depth into the Middle East maelstrom.

They are also disappointed that Western governments have been skeptical about Beijing’s hardline response to ethnic unrest among Uighurs in Xinjiang, and they are adamant that only the United Nations can authorize military action in a sovereign state’s territory.

For the first time this week, the state-run Chinese media linked Xinjiang militants to the self-named Islamic State. The Global Times, owned by the ruling Communist Party, quoted an unidentified Chinese “anti-terrorism worker” as saying Uighur militants “want…to expand their connections in international terrorist organizations through actual combat to gain support for escalation of terrorist activities in China.”

In July, the man who has declared himself the caliph of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, claimed that he counted Chinese citizens among his fighters, and accused the Chinese government of “extreme torture and degradation of Muslims” in “East Turkestan,” the name that pro-independence forces give to Xinjiang.

ISLAMIST 'TERRORISM' IN CHINA

More than 300 people have died in escalating violence in Xinjiang over the past 18 months, and Uighur terrorists killed 31 people in a knife attack last March on Kunming railway station in southeastern China.

Beijing blames the violence on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and the World Uighur Congress; Chinese officials are angry that Western governments do not share their analysis.

The US State Department took ETIM off its list of international terrorist organizations amid doubts over its real status and role. Outside China the World Uighur Congress is considered a peaceful minority rights group pushing for Uighur independence.

Beijing considers such tolerance incoherent. “The fight against terrorism should not have double standards,” says Li Shaoxian, deputy head of the China Institute for Contemporary International Relations, a think tank affiliated with the security forces. “It should respect the rights and wishes of all the countries involved.”

At the same time, the Chinese government is growing increasingly dubious about US intentions and suspicious that Washington and its allies are seeking to contain China and undermine the Communist Party, suggests Zhao Chu, an independent political commentator.

China’s reticence about joining the US-led coalition “is a very obvious symbol of Chinese doubts about US purposes,” says Mr. Zhao.

Zhao argued in a recent blog that Beijing should play a more active role to underline its “concern with international order and justice” and to give its armed forces an opportunity to fight alongside the US military and learn from them.

In a sign of how forcefully the authorities disagree with such thinking, his two blogs were closed down days after he posted his essay on them.

(end news)

beyondfantasy3 113M
4740 posts
9/27/2014 3:58 pm

Something will have to change in the process... because these radical groups won't stop until the 'world of nations" come together and stop them. They are trying to infiltrate every place they can, and where ever their groups exist, there is always plots for violence against people.

If these Muslim/Islamic people radicals don't like others people, why don't they just stay among themselves, but they can't do that, because they want to dominate and dictate over others. It's something very sick and sad about that type of ideology.