ISIL extends reach to China with propaganda song in Mandarin

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ISIL extends reach to China with propaganda song in Mandarin

Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has released a recording in Mandarin Chinese that urges Muslims to “take up weapons to fight.” The propaganda song was posted online by ISIL’s foreign-language media unit, Al Hayat Media Center, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks terror propaganda. In 2014, ISIL leader Abu […]

Uighurs denounce Xi Jinping policies involving Han Chinese overlords as ‘cultural genocide’

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Uighurs denounce Xi Jinping policies involving Han Chinese overlords as ‘cultural genocide’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese Communist Party is implementing a new cycle of “strike hard” campaign to exterminate what Chinese ethnic-affairs cadres call the “cancer cells” of separatism, ethnic radicalism and religious extremism that appear to be spreading in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR). Since April 2013, riots and disturbances, including […]

Regime security, not national security, is dominant priority in Beijing and Moscow

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Regime security, not national security, is dominant priority in Beijing and Moscow

Sol W. Sanders Minxin Pei, the most original of current Sinologists, makes the point authoritarian/totalitarian regimes inherently prioritize requirements for protecting regime leaders over long-term national interest. To preserve the former’s power, they sacrifice the latter’s needs. In the process, they encourage breakdown in the world order. Beijing is now demonstrating the phenomenon in spades. […]