The
Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the
threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang
autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the
government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.
by
Caleb T. Maupin
Part
2 - Terrorism down, standard of living up
But that was
three years ago. What has happened since? Has Xinjiang gone the way
of Iraq, Libya and Syria? Is an insurgency blazing across the
countryside?
Not at all.
Three years after the Kunming attackers carried out what has been
called “China’s 9/11,” Xinjiang is actually more peaceful than
before. What prevented the region from descending into chaos?
Although China has stepped up its policing and security measures in
the time since the attacks, a different factor has actually been more
prominent in halting unrest and maintaining peace.
“An
average of two new textile factories were set up in Xinjing every day
last year. We expect to see more this year,” said Yin Xiaodong,
director of Xinjiang’s textile industry management office. Xinjiang
now has more than 1,800 textile factories, with 112,300 people
working in textile mills. The Chinese government said it expects
another 100,000 textile industry jobs to be created this year.
Rural
Uyghurs who join China’s industrial workforce are likely seeing
significant improvements in their standard of living. The wages of
Chinese industrial workers are closely regulated by the state.
Between 2008 and 2014, the average wage of China’s industrial
workers increased by 71 percent. Business owners have complained
about what they consider to be extreme workplace protections and wage
controls. MarketWatch quotes Yang Keng, the owner of a major Chinese
real estate company as saying “China, as a developing country,
has adopted labor laws of a European welfare state. The motives are
good but businesses have been hurt.”
The Chinese
central government has also announced plans to develop new roads and
railways in Xinjiang. In 2017, roughly 170 billion yuan (24.8 billion
dollars) will be used to build new roads in the historically
impoverished region. Another 8.1 billion yuan (1.18 billion dollars)
will be used to build new railways. The Chinese government is also
researching the possibility of building a high-speed railway that
will connect Xinjiang’s capital of Urumqi to a land-port on the
Sino-Kazakh border.
It is
believed that the development of industry and infrastructure in the
region has diminished the threat of separatist terrorism by giving
impoverished Uyghurs more job opportunities and a better quality of
life.
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It seems
that Taiwan and South China Sea are being used only as a pretext
by the US to provoke China continuously. The US ultimate
geopolitical interest resides in the Chinese mainland, close to
the Russian borders.
According
to a scenario, the US starts a war that ends quickly, changes the
regime in China, puts its puppet, and probably, break China (as
they want to do with Russia), using disputed provinces as a
pretext (e.g. Tibet, Xinjiang - No surprise that, recently, China
responded instantly to Trump, saying that the 'one-China' policy
is not negotiable).
The
US-friendly regimes will repay the US dollars that they will
receive for their 'color revolutions' by allowing US military
bases in their territories. With China dissolved and on its knees,
Russia will be fully encircled and left with no major allies. It
will be the next target.
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