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lations were established in 1992… Hundreds of skilled Israeli technicians,
engineers and weapons experts began surfacing in China - having report-
edly entered using passports of various countries - and were soon busy at
work. The Sino-Israel partnership only became public knowledge during a
military parade in Beijing, when Western military attaches noticed that the
tanks being displayed were equipped with an Israeli-invented "thermal
fume-extraction sleeve" on the barrels of their cannons. 2
At the basis of this rapprochement lies the unease felt by China at the
rise of Islam in East Turkestan or the regions around it. In the Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs, it was reported that the Chinese-Israeli al-
liance was based on China's attempts to "neutralize Islamic movements",
and that China was alarmed at the presence of some 20 million
Muslims in East Turkestan. 3
1. Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman, Every Spice A
Prince: The Complete Story of Israel's
Intelligence Community, Boston, Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1991, page 346.
2. Jerusalem Post, Arming the Chinese
Dragon, September 10, 1998,
http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/10.Sep.1998/
Features/Article-5.html
3. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
January, 1994, p.19.

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