radio free asia (RFA) on Thursday took note of the Chinese government’s investigation. Recommended Build a second capital in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and “resolutely end the historical notion that this region is the homeland of the Uyghur people.”
region teeth, In fact, it is the homeland of the Uyghur people,east turkestanby Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic minorities who have lived there for a long time. This turbulent region was ruled by Chinese warlords in the early 20th century, conquered by the Soviet Union as a satellite state in the 1940s, and finally he was invaded and annexed by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. ” literally means “new territory”.
many Uighurs vehemently reject China claims to have ancient claims to their land that date back nearly 2000 years. It is considered inflammatory to even remember that
China’s brutal repression of Uyghurs is a series of atrocities characterized by international observers as ethnic cleansing or outright genocide. summon a ghost Representative of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
ETIM was a bona fide terrorist organization in the 1990s, reportedly committing a string of robberies and murders with the backing of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. The United Nations estimates that ETIM’s operatives never exceeded about 200, and most counter-terrorism experts believe that ETIM was virtually destroyed by the death of its last leader in 2010. I think The United States excluded the group as a terrorist organization in 2020 due to “no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist.”
Infuriated by this, Beijing claimed ETIM remained a major terrorist threat, far greater and more influential than any other country. Millions of Uyghurs have been put into concentration camps for torture and brainwashing on the grounds that ETIM and like-minded separatists lurk in every corner of Xinjiang.
Even before the Uyghurs marched into the re-education camps, China was trying to colonize and ethnically cleanse East Turkestan by moving huge numbers of Han Chinese to East Turkestan. forced labor.
One of the reasons China’s coronavirus lockdown policy is over nationwide protest An apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of East Turkestan, caught fire, killing a resident in the fire as the building was sealed and quarantined. The event made major national news as so many appalled Han residents of Urumqi were on hand to witness it.
RFA reported on a paper published on April 21 in a Chinese-language journal called “Social Sciences in Xinjiang”. The paper cited four years of economic and sociological research to conclude that a new Chinese capital would be built somewhere near Urumqi. Kashgar will strengthen China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) ambitions in Central Asia and resolutely crush East Turkestan’s sense of history and identity.
Elkin Ekrem, vice-president of the World Uyghur Congress, told RFA that the process of building such a city would go a long way in eliminating East Turkestan. required infrastructure.
“The Uyghur region is important for China to realize its dream. It is the gateway to Central Asia, West Asia, Turkey and Europe. important to.”
Shawn Roberts, professor of international affairs at George Washington University, suggested that China wants a bulwark against destabilization in Central Asia across its western borders.
“If this is implemented, it will mark the end of the historical conception of the region as the homeland of the Uyghur people. It will change the landscape of the Uyghur region and its relationship with the central government in Beijing,” said Roberts.
Adbul Hakim Idris of the Uyghur Research Center had a different idea: China would set up a backup capital that would make it harder for the West to attack if Beijing invaded Taiwan and provoked a world war. You may be interested in
“Moving the capital to the homeland would be farther away from the US Pacific Fleet and therefore safer,” he suggested.
of south china morning post (SCMP) report China’s white paper does not describe how the capital will be built on the remote and forbidden land of East Turkistan, nor what the capital will look like, assuming that its status as the “second national capital” is not purely symbolic. I was vague about the details of what it would do.
In addition to subduing the Uighurs (or, as the author puts it, making them feel “included” by China’s authoritarian government), the paper is infamous for building a second capital. He argued that it would ease congestion and pollution in dirty Beijing and strengthen the Belt and Road. The initiative connects with Central Asia and even Europe, helping China to exploit East Turkestan’s natural resources.
of SCMP observed that previous proposals for China to establish a second capital were made, but where existing technological and industrial hub cities like Guangzhou and Shanghai were proposed. A new study recommending the capital of East Turkistan looks like the most serious proposal yet.
