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#Xinjiang #Uighurs #China This thread will feature CIA role in Xinjiang which is less known but US claims 1 million+ Muslims are detained there leaving out the pretext to current situation which US created.
Before dwelling in to details its very important to understand significance of Xinjiang and its neighbors. Also important to note Belt and Road Initiative which is biggest connectivity initiative of the century connecting Asia to Europe and bolstering trade, influence and economy
CIA has been actively involved in Afghanistan since 1979 to topple Soviet Union and since 1989 among the Central Asian states formerly part of Soviet Union. Even "Operation Jawbreaker" was conducted from base in Uzbekistan which determines CIA presence in neighboring states.
Some Uighur Muslims like Uzbeks, Tajiks, Krgyz, Kazakhs were part of resistance against Soviet Union and joined Mujhadeen against Soviet Union. Some even in Al Qaeda. In 1989 Soviet Union fell but CIA then shifted focus to China in 2001 when came in Afghanistan.
Xinjiang is not as economically developed as Easter China. Socio economic issues led to extremism and protests of separation that were fueled by CIA sent agents who cultivated various assets including few "imams" to influence public and start a movement.
In 2010 Chinese Intelligence busted a network of CIA assets estimated to be around 30 working in Xinjiang. CIA was shocked how Chinese MSS found them all out. CIA caught its own officer in US for leaking Intel to Chinese named Jerry Chun Shing Lee.
CIA keeps data of its agents and assets compartmentalized so one officer could not have revealed or known about 30 of agency's asset working to incite people and arm them for rebellion in to separatist movement against China to cut Xinjiang away from China. Some Jihadis sent too
NSA found out CIA had faulty communication technical error loophole that Chinese agency found out and easily through Internet traced the CIA assets in Xinjiang. CIA operation faced a biggest setback.
All the Jihadis and "activists" CIA had planted in Xinjiang were caught and detained. China is not a democracy so decisions to make detention centres and de radicalization centres was taken to put all to safeguard from any CIA hostile operations.
For Pakistanis it's important to understand that China is not a democracy & religious freedom/ human rights in China are not priority above state. PTM and other such groups in Pakistan openly talk of breaking Pakhtunistan and Baloch separatists but China is strict.
There BRI and CPEC could have been endangered if they don't crush the separatism and extremism so they have put large numbers in deradicalizing centers and detention centres. Some rights abuses surely but CIA operations have failed. 30 Assets of CIA were hanged by Chinese.
China succeeded in countering the extremism and terrorism in Xinjiang before there used to be violent attacks but since CIA ring dismantled and these centre things have gotten better. US can't digest this. BRI is huge geoeconomic and geopolitical gamechanger that US needs stopped
Washington based Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders got 1 million story, this group receives most of its funds from U.S. government, primarily from the CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy, a major source of funding for US “regime change” operations around the world
Now the western media used the stories of detention camps and blew them out of proportion for only one purpose so neighboring Afghan Jihadis and others including Pakistani hardliners can be turned against China using religious persecution as grounds for rights.
https://www.workers.org/2019/12/44963/ Some material to read for those interested.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22952/chinas-dismantling-of-cia-spy-ring-highlights-growing-dystopian-like-surveillance-state Go through this.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-28/Truth-will-prevail-as-speculation-about-Xinjiang-gets-busted-MN7c6rpUMo/index.html Claim of 1 Million+ detained in detention camp is yet to be verified. Its just an estimate.
