Posted on 08/04/2008 2:03:26 AM PDT by Caipirabob
BEIJING (AP) _ Attackers rammed a dump truck into a patrol station in China's restive Central Asian border province Monday morning, tossing grenades in a raid that killed 16 officers and wounded others, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
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Xinhua is in the far South of China. I believe that this will have no impact on the Olympics outside of diverting further security forces to crush further violence in the South.
Muzzies vs. Chicoms... who to root for?
This group has already killed innocent people in Yunnan via bus bombings. I say “go China, kill Islamofascists.”
Kashgar, or Kashi in Chinese, is the name of an oasis town that was once a stop on the Silk Road caravan routes and lies about 80 miles from the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.
If the Chinese beef up border security (maybe a few divisions?) it might convince Pakistan to get serious about cracking down on their jihadists.
As much as I detest this latest example of Islamic savagery, I’m hoping this might cause the Chinese to wise up a little regarding this threat.
Both sides...until one destroys the other and then the US+ allies can take out the other.
The Chinese have a position that what happens on their territory is just none of anyone else's business. A position that is at least half correct in my view, even though we know that Beijing is repressive and abusive toward many of their own who express dissent or want to worship freely.
Knowing full-well what kind of government they have — tyrannical against many of their own peaceful people aspiring to liberty in several areas, I am half sympathetic to their “Butt-out of our business” stance.
My reasoning? Because I see as one of the greatest dangers to liberty in the United States, an exponential increase in the “butting-in” to our business by the UNO, the World Court, and other destructive internationalist organizations and agencies.
I will quietly root for the Chincoms in their fight against Islamic extremists (and their are plenty of them) in their central and western regions.
Good point!
Tough choice. I'll vote for the most civilized.
Given that the Chinese government routinely kills innocent Uighurs, I would call that reciprocity. Until I hear about these people forcing Uighur women to wear the veil, or Uighur men to grow their beards long, I can't really see how they're anything like the Taliban. Bottom line is that they're hitching their wagon to anyone who will support them - and that list is growing shorter every day, because of growing Chinese geopolitical heft. The sad reality is that the Turks of Central Asia (and what is now China's north west) have never been united throughout history, and are cowering* yet again in the face of the Chinese threat.
* Some time back, John Derbyshire cited an interesting item about the Kazakh leader's reaction to border talks with China. Upon his return, he moved his capital from Almaty - close to the Chinese border - all the way to Astana, smack in the center of the country.
It should do it.
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