Full text:https://www.unz.com/bhua/the-uss-long-game-in-xinjiang/
The US used Islamic extremists to destroy Yugoslavia in the 1990s, deploying Al Qaeda fighters in Bosnia against Serbia. It succeeded to Balkanize the Balkans.
It used Islamic terrorists to draw Russia in a protracted war in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s. Fortunately, Russia prevailed with Putin’s iron-fisted crackdown of the rebel forces.
The US wanted to do the same with China in the 2000s and 2010s through organizations like the East Turkistan Government in Exile, TIP, as well as the jihadi Uyghur fighters. But it has met its match and hit an iron wall.
There has never been an East Turkistan in history and never will be. At the top of this essay is a map called the New Map of the World, created by American illustrator Edward Everett Henry in 1928. It is kept in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection today.
Even in 1928 prior to the Communist takeover of China, the map showed Xinjiang as part of China, as all the maps drawn by Europeans since the time of Rome.
However, history and facts have never been a stumbling block when the American Empire decides to change reality.
The US Congress can simply declare Juan Guaidó as the president of Venezuela in 2019 and Edmundo González as the president today. Nicolás Maduro can simply be declared a narco terrorist with a reward on his head.
Next time you hear some altruistic American pronouncements about Xinjiang, human rights, and democracy, remember the US’s dirty long game.
It doesn’t care about the Uyghurs. It wants to turn them into cannon fodder as the Ukrainians.
