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Titolo: La causa persa degli Uiguri

Ah, la cartesiana potenza del Capitale!
Namib
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The lost cause of China’s Uighurs
Published: August 5 2008 20:15 | Last updated: August 5 2008 20:15
One of the side-effects of the September 11 2001 attacks on the US was 
the way it enabled other countries to smuggle their unresolved conflicts 
under the umbrella of George W. Bush’s global “war on terror”. Russia’s 
assault on Chechnya suddenly became legitimate. Ariel Sharon got the 
green light to retake the West Bank by force. China adroitly used the 
opportunity to tar the Uighurs of Xinjiang, its biggest and westernmost 
province, with the brush of al-Qaeda.
Now, on the eve of the Olympics, Beijing would have us believe the games 
are under threat from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a tiny Uighur 
group that China persuaded Mr Bush, in his “either with us or against 
us” mood, to put on the US terrorist list. Monday’s incident in 
Xinjiang, in which 16 policemen were allegedly killed by Uighur 
separatists, may cause some alarm but the essential thesis is spurious.
If the ETIM survives in western China – which is far from clear – it is 
the most rudimentary insurgency. Despite Beijing’s extravagant claims in 
the run-up to the Olympics, the small number of attacks appears to 
involve knives and primitive explosives. For Chinese security, this is 
no more difficult than swatting a fly. But the Uighurs do appear to be 
trying to use the Olympic stage to grab the spotlight.
And no wonder. Their cause is almost unknown. A cultured people who 
founded the first Turkic state in the 10th century and published the 
first works of Turkish literature, the Uighurs had an episodic autonomy 
that ended with their forced assimilation by the People’s Liberation 
Army in 1949. Since then their culture, language and Muslim religion 
have been engulfed by Han Chinese colonisation. Discrimination over jobs 
and housing has only worsened with the discovery of oil and mineral 
wealth in Xinjiang.
Xinjiang is in a similar situation to Tibet. But it lacks the religious 
radiation provided by the Dalai Lama or, in another context, a city 
built on combustible history like Jerusalem. It has no high-profile 
Hollywood star such as Richard Gere to emote for it; more people 
probably worry whether giant pandas mate than whether the Uighurs can 
survive as a culture and a people. If only they were Buddhists.
Yet their restiveness is a flickering if forlorn hope that something 
like the break-up of the Soviet Union might happen to China, not a 
response to al-Qaeda. But if Beijing continues its bulldozer approach to 
minorities and robs the Uighurs of their identity, it could incite 
jihadism. China’s interpretation of the Olympics slogan “One World, One 
Dream” is not universally shared.

 Published: August 5 2008 20:15 | Last updated: August 5 2008 20:15
Dimenticavo: 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ea9d4f10-6321-11dd-9fd0-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Namib

> Ah, la cartesiana
#_ Bello l'aggettivo cartesiana ... ma Cartesio ?
Cortez ha fatto di peggio! :-///
Giano 

 Bell'armata Brancaleone
Vieni avanti cretino!!
Ancora non hai capito una ceppa, lord of my-foot!
Lui si dissocia e son trent'anni che mi so' dissociato da tutti
anch'io?...
Siamo cavalieri erranti!
Quel che ci unisce e manca a te, sempre ...PUNK!!...E` la Cortez.ia.

 L'antimberialismo ha colpito again... Bell'armata Brancaleone :)
Solo Zeus sa perché quello scimunito di Amalric parla di 
"antimperialismo", visto che l'art. (del FT!) parla semplicemente di 
Realpolitik "post-imperialista" (= di stabilizzazione) cinese (e non 
solo), sotto la comoda coperta del 9/11. Ed è ovviamente condivisibilissimo.
Namib

 Manfatti 
Nun hai capito 'n cazzo. Al solito.
Namib

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#_Certo! ...
e quel "cartesiana", che ne descrive la logica nei tempi, e`azzeccatissimo .
Io , invece, nominando Cortez (lo scemo ha letto solo quel nome) facevo un
accostamento estemporaneo (Cartesio - Cortez...bah!), ma il povero idiota
Am. , oltre di Cortez.ìa, e`deficitario di Cortez-cia cerebrale!
Giano

 condivisibilissimo.
Non e' che e' condivisibile, e' vero. Vero salvo che in un punto: tutte 
le guerriglie iniziano in sordina come quella. Il fatto che ora usino 
coltelli e bombe fatte in casa non vuol dire che non possano arrivare ad 
una dimensione preoccupante.
Gli yankess, oltretutto, tengono un po' di gente dell'ETIM o dei paraggi 
a Guantanamo, e non e' irragionevole pensare che ne abbiano catturato 
anche qualcun'altro. Ora ovviamente nel breve fanno un piacere ai 
cinesi, ma nel lungo IMVVVHO piu' che fare un piacere ai soci cinesi si 
tengono qualche asso nella manica... invecchiando divento complottista.
Palmiro Pangloss
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