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Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Well, the USA has gotten no where.. Let China have a go.
China has an advantage, it isnt the beacon for freedom and human rights. I can get results, as long as the western media doesnt dig too deep into the mass graves that appear.
yes i do know it is not a China news link but it is on China, think what would happen if they got their hands on Iraq or Afghanistan, Iran would not be.
China's War on Terror
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By Ben Blanchard
Reuters- Urumqi, China
Sunday, 25 September 2011 10:10
China has exerted considerable diplomatic pressure on Asian countries where Uighurs have claimed asylum.
The back alleys and packed mosques of the remote far western Chinese city of Urumqi are one of the more obscure front lines in the U.S.-backed war on terror, launched after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Streets crawl with baton-wielding riot police and heavily armed SWAT teams brought in for a trade fair in a tense reminder that China considers the region fertile ground for terrorism and Islamic radicalism, a claim many scoff at.
Ten years ago, China used the 9/11 attacks to justify getting tough with what it said were al Qaeda-backed extremists who wanted to bring similar carnage to Xinjiang, a heavily Muslim region with close cultural links to Central Asia.
A sweeping crackdown on Uighurs (pronounced "Wee-gur") - the Turkic-speaking people who call Xinjiang home, followed.
China has used a carrot and stick approach, going after Uighurs it suspects of harboring separatist views, but also pumping in billions of dollars to boost development and lessen the appeal of the militants.
"Unresolved problems relating to the Ryukyu Islands have reached the time for reconsideration," wrote Zhang Haipeng and Li Guoqiang, citing post-World War II declarations that required Japan to return Chinese territory.
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so the Islands did belong to China before the war?? this i got to look up
Originally posted by bekod
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so the Islands did belong to China before the war?? this i got to look up