To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (116297 ) 10/27/2011 10:49:42 AM From: lorne 2 Recommendations Respond to of 224729 ken...You want to pass this along to hussein obama? Thanks. Chinese military looking to expand into neighbor Considering building bases in tribal areas to contain attacks October 27, 2011wnd.com WASHINGTON – China seriously is considering establishing bases in the Pakistani tribal areas in an effort to contain increasing attacks into the country from Muslim Uighurs who seek to establish an independent Islamic state in its western-most province of Xinjiang, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. According to informed regional sources, Beijing wants the military bases to be located in Pakistan's remote and virtually lawless Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, and possibly in the Federally Administered Northern Areas, or FANA. Both provinces border on Xinjiang province. The Uighurs belong to the Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, which analysts say may have links to al-Qaida. The United States has listed the ETIM as a terrorist organization. The Uighurs want to create an independent Islamic state called Turkistan in the region that includes China's Xinjiang province, where there are strategic oil and natural gas resources. Xinjiang province is three times the size of France. The Chinese want to contain what amounts to a growing insurrection in Xinjiang by Muslim Uighurs who ethnically are Turkic and not Chinese. Until recently, the Uighurs formed a majority of the population of Xinjiang province. In an effort to dilute that majority, the Chinese government began to move Han Chinese into the area, a move that caused riots in the city of Urumgi, the capital of Xinjiang province, in July 2009. As a result, a number of Chinese Han were killed, prompting Mohammad Abu Bakr, a top al-Qaida ideologue who now lives in Lebanon, to issue a call to attack Chinese interests. In turn, Chinese security forces then began a major crackdown on the Uighurs resulting in a number of executions of Uighurs by Chinese authorities. Because the Uighurs are of Turkic origin, Turkey has a large Uighur minority in which some actively support an independent Islamic state in Xinjiang province. Recent harsh actions by the Chinese against the Uighurs have had the effect of hurting Chinese-Turkish relations. The region also offers a strategic buffer and is a gateway to the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, where there is a sizeable Uighur population. The division of China from these Central Asian countries also has had the effect of dividing families. Kyrgyz nationals have told G2Bulletin that the Chinese refuse to allow families from the Central Asian countries to meet with relatives in Xinjiang, a circumstance that has spawned even further resentment between the Uighurs and Chinese. China's desire to set up military bases in Pakistan stems from recently revealed evidence that the Pakistani tribal areas have become a safe haven for Uighur separatists. As G2Bulletin reported last August, there have been recent attacks by Uighurs into Xinjiang province from training bases in Pakistan's tribal areas.