Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

This is a historic treaty.

Pakistan and China resolved on Tuesday to safeguard each other’s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

In addition to the Balochistan predicament Pakistan borders on China’s Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.
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China has already protested the establishment of a Uighur Government-in-Exile in Washington and Beijing has repeatedly made it clear that it will not tolerate any political interference from abroad, where pro-independence Uighur organizations exist. This means us. It would seem we are orchestrating a riot in the Xinjiang province of China. Pakistan along with Kyrgyzstan borders the Xinjiang region.
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When Bush meddled in Kyrgyzstan he went too far.

China has stationed 1 million troops in Xinjiang. The 1 million troops would be in addition to a possible 2.5 million semi-military force, or 3.5 million waiting to defend Xinjiang.
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A top military official has urged the strengthening of China’s 2.5 million semi-military presence in the westernmost Xinjiang region to combat separatism and attempts at “sabotage and infiltration,”
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China is treating the Uighur/Xinjiang situation with the same fervor as the Taiwan problem. Both Taiwan and Xinjiang are a threat to One China.

Beijing is as worried about "splittism" in Xinjiang as it is about "splittism" in neighboring Tibet or "separatism" in Taiwan.

-Am