{"id":181232,"date":"2015-02-10T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=181232"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:00:11","slug":"china-making-terrorism-problem-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/china-making-terrorism-problem-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China Making Its Own Terrorism Problem Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/08\/inside-chinas-escalating-war-terror\/\">intensifying<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/01\/amid-crackdown-xinjiang-arrests-nearly-doubled-2014\/\">recently extended<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/terrorism\/\">crackdown on terrorism in the Xinjiang region<\/a>, Beijing has <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/12\/global-times-says-300-chinese-extremists-fighting-alongside-isis\/\">continually alleged<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/06\/china-releases-graphic-footage-militant-attacks\/\">connection<\/a> between escalating regional violence and the global jihad movement. In recent months, as international fear\u00a0proliferates in the wake of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCoQqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-middle-east-31375445&amp;ei=0mzaVN3uBorpoAS8yIDQCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNEI0dYJMI8HTwT9E4I4pIIF9SyNtQ&amp;sig2=PIdQ1gtIx7KnKa70eNmF5g&amp;bvm=bv.85464276,d.cGU\">highly publicized deaths of Islamic State hostages<\/a>, Beijing has claimed that would-be Uyghur refugees captured along China&#8217;s southern border were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1681827\/two-uygurs-xinjiang-killed-trying-cross-illegally-vietnam\">attempting to make it to the Middle East for jihad training<\/a>.\u00a0However, Uyghur refugees abroad cite <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/01\/police-shoot-six-dead-xinjiang-urumqi-veil-ban-approved\/\">continued violence and increasingly repressive policies<\/a> in Xinjiang as <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/long-perilous-road-turkey-uyghur-refugees\/\">their motive to flee China<\/a>. In a report for Foreign Policy outlining the situation in Xinjiang, Justine Drennan surveys expert opinions on\u00a0recent <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/12\/global-times-says-300-chinese-extremists-fighting-alongside-isis\/\">state media claims that Uyghurs are among ranks of IS<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/02\/09\/is-china-making-its-own-terrorism-problem-worse-uighurs-islamic-state\/\"><strong>asks if Beijing&#8217;s policies may be more to blame for the deteriorating situation in Xinjiang<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] Chinese government-run\u00a0<em>Global Times\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/896765.shtml\">asserted<\/a>\u00a0in December that about 300 Chinese \u201cextremists\u201d were fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.qq.com\/a\/20150123\/005058.htm\">in January<\/a>\u00a0 that another 300 had traveled to Malaysia en route to joining the group. The reports suggested that many\u00a0were \u201cterrorists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.\u201d On Thursday, \u00a0<em>Global Times\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/world.huanqiu.com\/exclusive\/2015-02\/5599295.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0ISIS\u00a0had executed one of these Uighur\u00a0recruits in September and two in December when they tried to flee its control,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1702968\/islamic-state-has-executed-three-deserters-china-chinese-state-run\">attributing<\/a>\u00a0the information to an anonymous Kurdish official.<\/p>\n<p>Many experts dismiss\u00a0<em>Global Times\u2019<\/em>s\u00a0numbers. \u201cI assume there are Uighurs joining ISIS, but I also assume the numbers are quite small in comparison to other groups throughout the world,\u201d said Sean Roberts, a George Washington University professor who studies the minority group. \u201cWe\u2019re probably talking about 20 to 30 people max.\u201d Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong-Kong-based senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, called Chinese media\u2019s figure of 300 \u201cimplausibly high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely that the rise of the Islamic State has given a\u00ad few disenfranchised young Uighurs a cause to fight and potentially die for. Still, experts say any increase in Uighur extremism is largely due to the fact that the very policies China says are meant to combat terrorism have actually made the threat worse.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese reports about hundreds of Uighurs fighting with the Islamic State are likely \u201cintended to make the Uighurs look as if they\u2019re a threat, an Islamist terrorist organization,\u201d said Dru Gladney, an anthropologist who studies ethnic identities in China. Several\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/09\/22\/us-china-xinjiang-idUSKCN0HH10J20140922\">international<\/a>media\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/chinese-radicals-from-xinjiang-join-islamic-state\/article20735422\/\">outlets<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2014\/09\/24\/Report-Chinese-Uyghurs-Join-Islamic-State\">repeated<\/a>\u00a0the numbers from\u00a0Chinese media.\u00a0But China\u2019s\u00a0inflated claims are ultimately counterproductive, Gladney said. \u201cThey create more fear and marginalization, which exacerbates the problem.\u201d [&#8230;] [<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/02\/09\/is-china-making-its-own-terrorism-problem-worse-uighurs-islamic-state\/\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the\u00a0intensifying (and recently extended) crackdown on terrorism in the Xinjiang region, Beijing has continually alleged a connection between escalating regional violence and the global jihad movement. 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