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fighting terrorism. What a naive and dangerous fantasy. The fact is, the
Communist Chinese government is in bed with every one of the terrorist
and terrorist-supporting rogue regimes of the Middle East…

Those who imagine that the U.S. shares common interests with the
Chinese in combating terrorism most likely base their assumption on
China's fight against supposed Uighur terrorism in Xinjiang Province,
formerly known as East Turkestan. But there is an ugly catch to that:If the
U.S. should end up receiving any kind of support from Beijing for our
anti-terrorist efforts, it will almost certainly come at the price of acquiesc-
ing in China's crackdown on the Uighurs. That would be a moral
calamity, for there is no justification in lumping the Uighurs with the
murderous fanatics who demonstrably mean us harm. The Uighurs are
engaged in a just struggle for freedom from Beijing's tyrannical rule,
for the most part peacefully. For this, they have been viciously sup-
pressed, with the Chinese government arresting and torturing political
prisoners, destroying mosques and opening fire on peaceful demon-
strations.
Strategically and morally, the United States cannot and must not assume
that China is part of a solution to terrorism. Indeed, Communist China is
a very large part of the problem. 88
As we have seen, Americans are aware of what is happening in

Red China and of the terrible oppression of the Muslims of East
Turkestan, and therefore regard China, not as a "part of a solution to
terrorism," but as a part of terrorism itself.
That view has now come to be shared by many in the West.
Various figures are warning of the need to be careful in the face of
moves by certain countries that hope to take advantage of the US's fight
against terrorism. In a November 5, 2001 article, Thomas Beal, one of
the editors of The Asian Wall Street Journal stressed the following:
China's false indignation shows how it is exploiting world-wide revul-
sion at the attacks on America to justify a nearly 10-year crackdown on

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan