Xinjiang becomes target of Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda, in its expansion project to the eastern part of the Asian continent, has identified the Chinese autonomous province of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur community, as a possible target for his project of a global caliphate, to oppose the Caliphate State Islamic Iraq and the Levant. This statement harms the aspirations for greater independence of the Uighurs, because it offers a clear pretext central to the Chinese authorities to intensify repression in the region. The issue of Xinjiang is a major problem for Beijing: the adjustment program to China, formed by massive immigration of Chinese citizens, combined with an attempt to suppress the local culture, including religious beliefs, has sparked fierce opposition among citizens natives, which resulted in attacks carried out both on a regional, that in the same Chinese capital. It is a terrorist, that for now, it seems difficult to encompass in the fundamentalist Islamic movement, because it is not aimed at a general jihad, but only to fight the means by which China seeks to destroy the culture of the region. There is also to say that the Uighurs through peaceful means have not gotten virtually nothing from the Chinese government. The Xinjiang region has therefore not been identified at random from the propaganda of Al Qaeda, the terrorist movement, the decline in its usual areas of action, does the Chinese region a culture medium suitable for your expansion. To avoid over-yearly International, Beijing presents the Uyghur community as a moderate, but must counteract the impulses local independence, which may result from example, as addressed to the regime, even for the many political dissidents, however, the appeal of Al Qaeda threatens become potentially dangerous for the Chinese leadership, with two levels of reading. If one side can increase the pressure terrorist bringing further instability, on the other, China, just to prevent it, may be forced to review its repressive policies in the region, making concessions to the Uighur community and creating a precedent; factor that China can hardly afford, because undertook to unify the state, erasing the differences that would call into question the unity of the nation. The most likely future is a hardening of Chinese right away, the fact of even greater repression and control. In respect of international public opinion, China has likened the Uighur terrorism in the Islamic state, but this view has been condemned by several human rights organizations, who see in this association an excuse to increase the deprivation of the most basic rights to Xinjiang's Muslim community, which has never officially ruled in favor of the Islamic jihad. But the intensification of the instrument of the death penalty against Uighur activists and the imprisonment of the advocate of the process of understanding between the two parties, the university professor Ilham Tohti, described by many as the Mandela Uyghur, demonstrate that the allegations non-governmental organizations are truthful. A further aspect, the borders of the matter, is represented by as China is about to be invested right within its borders from Islamic radicalism, a factor that should make you think the Chinese leaders on the need to change their attitude in foreign policy based on non-intervention of those who are identified as internal matters to the individual states, to change it in situations potentially destabilizing for the whole world, such as the expansion of the Islamic state. China has so far remained passive in the face to the onset of the phenomenon of Islamic extremism, focused on global economic expansion and try to impose its influence in Southeast Asia, virtually no interest of Middle East issues, an attitude that is contrary to the will of emergence as a great power. Change of use of the veto at the headquarters of the Security Council could authorize Beijing to frame less away from the big issues of diplomacy.