China is been sensible and pragmatic as well. They have Xinjiang available as a teaching tool for now and when they know how to win, only then will they entertain foreign adventures. This is all pretty sensible and is also taking advantage of the depth of time available.
It is obvious the threat will never be a real threat to anyone's sovereignty but it will be extremely annoying unless it is tamed. That is why i have opened the door to separating women and children for a proper education on western lines. China is quite capable of doing just that. If it works , then they will apply this elsewhere.
Then, just where do you start? The best place is the Sahel in Africa because we have a replacement religion instantly available. What China has is the immediate manpower to do it at the scale needed. It is also big enough to put all Islam on immediate notice that the game is up. In fact the sudden de Nazification of the Islamic Sahel followed by direct conversion to Christianity in a short space on time would end radical Islam then and there as they have no answer in meaningful action or threats..
Why China stays out of Islamic State fight, for now
China
is the top oil investor in Iraq, and Islamic State leaders say they
have Chinese recruits. But Beijing is reluctant to get involved due to
limited military capability in the Middle East and mistrust of US
intentions.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-china-stays-islamic-state-fight-now-131949876.html
One might expect
China to be heavily invested in the international fight to stop Islamic
State jihadists from taking over Iraq and Syria: For starters, China is
the number one investor in Iraq's oil industry. Yet, Beijing is almost nowhere to be seen in anti-IS coalition discussions. Why?
There
are reasons enough for China to get involved. The Asian giant’s economy
depends on the Middle East for half its imported energy. China now
imports more oil from the region than the United States does, and is the
largest investor in the Iraqi oil industry.
And as the Chinese authorities step up their battle
against increasingly violent Muslim separatists in the western province
of Xinjiang, Islamic State leaders boast of Chinese recruits to their
self-declared caliphate.
China’s contribution to the international military assault on Islamic State targets, however, is a timid offer of “intelligence sharing and personnel training” by Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
China’s rulers
are reluctant to get more heavily involved for a number of reasons, say
analysts here, ranging from their mistrust of American intentions to a
fear of being sucked out of their depth into the Middle East maelstrom.
They
are also disappointed that Western governments have been skeptical
about Beijing’s hardline response to ethnic unrest among Uighurs in
Xinjiang, and they are adamant that only the United Nations can
authorize military action in a sovereign state’s territory.
For
the first time this week, the state-run Chinese media linked Xinjiang
militants to the self-named Islamic State. The Global Times, owned by
the ruling Communist Party, quoted an unidentified Chinese
“anti-terrorism worker” as saying Uighur militants “want…to expand their
connections in international terrorist organizations through actual
combat to gain support for escalation of terrorist activities in China.”
In
July, the man who has declared himself the caliph of Islamic State, Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, claimed that he counted Chinese citizens among his
fighters, and accused the Chinese government of “extreme torture and
degradation of Muslims” in “East Turkestan,” the name that
pro-independence forces give to Xinjiang.
ISLAMIST 'TERRORISM' IN CHINA
More
than 300 people have died in escalating violence in Xinjiang over the
past 18 months, and Uighur terrorists killed 31 people in a knife attack
last March on Kunming railway station in southeastern China.
Beijing
blames the violence on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and
the World Uighur Congress; Chinese officials are angry that Western
governments do not share their analysis.
The US State Department
took ETIM off its list of international terrorist organizations amid
doubts over its real status and role. Outside China the World Uighur
Congress is considered a peaceful minority rights group pushing for
Uighur independence.'
Beijing considers such tolerance incoherent.
“The fight against terrorism should not have double standards,” says Li
Shaoxian, deputy head of the China Institute for Contemporary
International Relations, a think tank affiliated with the security
forces. “It should respect the rights and wishes of all the countries
involved.”'
At the same time, the Chinese government is growing
increasingly dubious about US intentions and suspicious that Washington
and its allies are seeking to contain China and undermine the Communist
Party, suggests Zhao Chu, an independent political commentator.'
China’s
reticence about joining the US-led coalition “is a very obvious symbol
of Chinese doubts about US purposes,” says Mr. Zhao.'
Zhao argued
in a recent blog that Beijing should play a more active role to
underline its “concern with international order and justice” and to give
its armed forces an opportunity to fight alongside the US military and
learn from them.'
In a sign of how forcefully the authorities
disagree with such thinking, his two blogs were closed down days after
he posted his essay on them.
LIMITED INTERNATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Chinese
officials also point out that in practical terms there is not a lot
China can do to help the fight against IS because “our international
capabilities are limited,” as former ambassador to Iran Hua Liming puts
it.
On Wednesday China did vote, along with every other member of
the United Nations Security Council, for a resolution requiring
governments to “suppress the recruiting, organizing, transporting,
equipping” and financing of “foreign terrorist fighters.”
But
China could not fly bombing sorties because it has no airbases in or
near the region, nor does it have any functioning aircraft carriers. The
idea of sending troops to support the Iraqi army is unthinkable.
That
prospect is “far from the imagination,” says Mr. Hua, both because
China has never sent any soldiers to the region before and because even
the US government has ruled out sending troops to Iraq or Syria.
The
most daring military operation China has engaged in since its brief war
with Vietnam in 1979 was announced this week. Beijing will send a 700
man combat-ready battalion to beef up the United Nations peacekeeping
force in South Sudan.
China buys 5 percent of its imported oil
from South Sudan, and Chinese diplomats have been closely engaged in
negotiations to bring peace to the troubled young country. But the UN
mandate for the peacekeepers is essential for Chinese participation.
The
UN Security Council has issued no such mandate for military action in
Syria, but China has been uncharacteristically subdued on this point.
Unlike Russia, which has vehemently criticized the Western-led aerial
assault on Syrian territory, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman this
week merely “noted” the military operations, hoped they would cause no
civilian casualties, and insisted that they “should comply with the
purposes and principles of the UN Charter.”
“China
always supports the counter-terrorism efforts made by the international
community,” added the spokeswoman, Hua Chunying. “China consistently
and firmly opposes all forms of terrorism.” For the time being, it
seems, rhetoric is as much as the rest of the world can expect from
Beijing.
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