The Chinese have had a very ambivalent stand on the war on terror being fought against extreme Islamists. It was so far an American war or an Indian war which of course was music to the Chinese ears. The Chinese are no longer "a third world pretender" but a strong ideological power which is powered by atheism, hedonism and capitalism which is anti-thesis of Islam in more ways than even America is. The next century war is all the civilizations against extreme forms of Islamo-fascism and the Chinese will play a huge role in it. Pakistani army is at its cross roads - it comes from same secular ethos of British Army as does the Indian army - and the army has to make those tough choices - embrace Jehadis or impose secularism in Pakistan.
RE:Chinese checkers
by inkypinky on Jul 11, 2007 08:33 PM Permalink
china is having its own seperatist islamic movement besing sponsored from islamic counties in cenral asia and pakistan.
China%u2019s "war on terrorism"%u2014brutal repression of ethnic unrest in Xinjiang
Beijing has long claimed to be confronted with "religious extremist forces" and "violent terrorists" in Xinjiang, a vast region one-sixth of China's land area. Xinjiang has a population of 18 million and is home to numerous Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic groups, of which the Uighurs, numbering eight million, are the largest. (The second largest group is the Kazakhs, with 1.2 million.) The percentage of ethnic Chinese (Han) in the population has grown from 6 percent in 1949 to 40 percent at present, and now numbers some 7.5 million people
