Is China Building a "Police State" or Countering Western-sponsored Terrorism?

February 1, 2019 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Recent headlines across American and European news agencies have focused on the rise of a so-called Chinese "police state," specifically in regards to security infrastructure put in place in China's western region of Xinjiang.

Articles like Bloomberg's "Inside the Vast Police State at the Heart of China’s Belt and Road" and the Economist's "China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other" depict Beijing's efforts as a "Muslim crackdown" and a "massive abuse of human rights."

While such articles allude to the very real violence that has taken place in Xinjiang and elsewhere targeted by an extremist minority among China's Uighur population, it is portrayed as "resistance" by Western sources rather than terrorism.

Bloomberg's article would claim:

...state-mandated drills are part of China’s suppression campaign against Uighurs, predominately Muslim ethnic groups whose members have periodically lashed out with riots, stabbings and other attacks in protest of a government controlled by the Han Chinese majority. 

In reality, Uighur extremists are terrorists pursuing unrealistic separatism encouraged by Washington, and doing so through extreme violence.

Uighur Separatism is US Sponsored  

The United State government via the National Endowment for Democracy dedicates a page to programmes it is funding in what is listed as "Xinjiang/East Turkistan," East Turkistan being the fictional name of the imaginary state separatists seek to carve out of Chinese territory.

The inclusion of "East Turkistan" is all but an admission to US support for Uighur separatism.

The "World Uyghur Congress" (WUC) is among the groups the US NED is funding. It openly promotes separatism.

WUC is omnipresent in Western news reports, promoting allegations against Beijing regarding Xinjiang, yet WUC is actually based in Munich, Germany and Washington D.C.

WUC representatives such as Dilxat Raxit and Rebiya Kadeer are cited, making various unsubstantiated claims regarding China's treatment of Uighurs with Western news agencies often failing to mention their WUC affiliation or that the WUC is funded by the US government in articles.

Stories like, "Chinese Police Order Xinjiang's Muslims to Hand in All Copies of The Quran," published by the US State Department-funded and directed Radio Free Asia network are based entirely on WUC claims.

Further investigation would reveal the Qurans being collected were published in Saudi Arabia and deliberately rewritten to promote extremism. Newer versions printed elsewhere were not being collected.

It is just one of many examples of the US intentionally undermining security in China, then intentionally misrepresenting China's attempts to respond to these growing threats.

Uighur Extremists are Carrying out Deadly Terrorism in China 

What Bloomberg describes as "periodically lashing out" has been more accurately presented even in the Western press, years before this latest disinformation campaign against Beijing began.

In a 2014 BBC article titled, "Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?," a long and appalling list of Uighur terrorist attacks are presented:

In June 2012, six Uighurs reportedly tried to hijack a plane from Hotan to Urumqi before they were overpowered by passengers and crew. 

There was bloodshed in April 2013 and in June that year, 27 people died in Shanshan county after police opened fire on what state media described as a mob armed with knives attacking local government buildings

At least 31 people were killed and more than 90 suffered injuries in May 2014 when two cars crashed through an Urumqi market and explosives were tossed into the crowd. China called it a "violent terrorist incident". 

It followed a bomb and knife attack at Urumqi's south railway station in April, which killed three and injured 79 others. 

In July, authorities said a knife-wielding gang attacked a police station and government offices in Yarkant, leaving 96 dead. The imam of China's largest mosque, Jume Tahir, was stabbed to death days later. 

In September about 50 died in blasts in Luntai county outside police stations, a market and a shop. Details of both incidents are unclear and activists have contested some accounts of incidents in state media.

Some violence has also spilled out of Xinjiang. A March stabbing spree in Kunming in Yunnan province that killed 29 people was blamed on Xinjiang separatists, as was an October 2013 incident where a car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

It can only be imagined what sort of security measures the United States or United Kingdom would put into place if such large scale and persist terrorism was taking place within their borders. It would also be curious to imagine what either nation would do if the separatism driving the violence was being openly promoted by a foreign state.

For China, draining the swamps of ideological extremism is their method of choice and is the impetus behind the so-called "reeducation camps" being operated in Xinjiang.

This systematic and brutal campaign of terrorism now being omitted from Western news sources is deliberate. Omitting this crucial context is meant to portray Beijing's reaction to years of deadly terrorism as irrational, oppressive and totalitarian.

Iran-Thai Bomb Blast Update

Predictable, improbable, and factually-deficient conclusion made by US-run Thai administration.
by Tony Cartalucci

February 22, 2012 - It was previously reported in "String of Global Bombings Blamed on Iran" that Thailand's current government is run by Thaksin Shinawatra by proxy through his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Thaksin was a former Carlyle Group adviser, and recipient of extensive US backing, including lobbying services from fellow Carlyle member James Baker and his firm Baker Botts, warmonger Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, and PNAC signatory Kenneth Adelman of Edelman. During Thaksin's term in office from 2001 until a coup ousted him in 2006, upon the eve of which he was literally reporting to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he had committed Thai troops to the US invasion of Iraq and allowed the CIA to use Thailand for its abhorrent rendition program.

It was suggested that he would mobilize fully to back US-Israeli propaganda. Within 24 hours, Thailand's police concluded, predictably, that the Iranians were targeting Israeli diplomats in Bangkok.

This conclusion was drawn by the very top of Thailand's police, General Preawpand Damapong, US-proxy Thaksin Shinawatar's brother-in-law, appointed as police chief shortly after Thaksin's own sister took office last July, with much support from Wall Street & London. This conclusion has now been repeatedly reported on Thaksin's "Voice TV," "sponsored" by AIS, of which his Shinawatra Group holds a majority share in and sister Yingluck was a managing director of, as well as SC Asset, of which sister Yingluck Shinawatra was CEO before taking office as PM, handing the reins over to Thaksin's daughter.

"Voice TV" would refer to the Iranians as "Arabs," another clue that no serious thought or analysis was put into examining the recent incident in Bangkok and that it was merely an exercise in backing US directives - as Iranians are Indo-Europeans, not Arabs, speak an entirely different language (Farsi) and have a distinctively different history, culture, social disposition, as well as a series of noticeably different ethno-physiological characteristics.


Image: Taken from the bottom of "Voice TV," it boasts as sponsors from Thaksin Shinawatra's hereditary financial empire, AIS and SC Asset, both of which featured Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra as managing director and CEO respectively, shortly before becoming prime minister of Thailand last July. Thaksin's sister ran for office within her brother's political party, "Peua Thai," with a motto that literally read, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." What has resulted is a proxy government serving US interests just as Thaksin did during his 2001-2006 term as PM. (click image to enlarge)

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Global Consensus?

Despite US policy papers, including Brookings Institution's "Which Path to Persia," openly conspiring to provoke war with Iran and subsidize an army of listed terrorists to pressure Iran into reacting, as well as reports out of the Daily Mail confirming Israeli involvement with these very groups, in particular, US State Department listed terrorist organization, the People's Mujahedin of Iran, also known as Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), and a clear answer to the question of "cui bono?," it appears as if a "global consensus" has been reached - that Iran has carried out these suspicious, provocative, and entirely pointless attacks that only serve to give the West the "casus belli" they have sought after for so long.


Photo: Dazed and confused. An Iranian suspect is paraded by Thai police around the crime scene in downtown Bangkok. It is highly unlikely he is the member of Iran's elite Quds forces, or Hezbollah who in 2006 stopped-dead an Israeli mechanized invasion into southern Lebanon, or a member of MEK, who has carried out a successful campaign of terror against Iran for decades. More probable is that he is a patsy, approached by Mossad and Farsi-speaking MEK operatives posing as Quds forces, who walked him through his ultimately doomed, provocative, pointless, and incriminating attack.

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However, what appears to have taken place in Bangkok, and what appears to be the case unfolding in India and Georgia as well, was a false-flag operation carried out by Mossad and Farsi-speaking MEK agents posing as Iranian Quds operatives who approached potential patsies. These patsies were trained and provided with faulty equipment to carry out these attacks. After making their respective failed attempts, the patsies would incriminate themselves and Tehran by attempting to return to Iran, or confess upon capture and interrogation that they were working for who they believed to be Quds operatives.

Far from a theory, Foreign Policy magazine has recently reported that indeed Israel's Mossad regularly pose as American spies to recruit MEK agents who then carry out their campaign of terror with connections leading back to the US, not Israel. While the information in FP's report was most likely published in an attempt to bifurcate US-Israeli interests for plausible deniability ahead of a "unilateral" Israeli attack (as described in Brookings' "Which Path to Persia?"), it does illustrate that false flag operations are not only real, but common place within Western intelligence operations.

With examples of America's FBI leading patsies through terrorist operations from A-Z within the United States, the most recent case of this entrapment featuring a "suicide bomber" who attempted to detonate an FBI-provided inert explosives vest in the US Capitol, and with examples of such operations being switched "live" at the last moment, as was the case in 1993's World Trade Center attack, accidentally or otherwise, it is clear that both the US and Israel have well established programs and networks for carrying out these false-flag attacks domestically and abroad. In fact, it has become a routine matter.

The consensus the US and Israel enjoy is not the consensus of fellow sovereign nations objectively examining the evidence and concurring with their predetermined conclusions, but rather, as is clearly the case in Thailand regarding the nepotistic Shinawatra family, a series of indebted puppet regimes propped up in exchange for shameless support for Wall Street & London's global ambitions.

The exactitude and speed with which US-proxy Thaksin Shinawatra's political and propaganda machines lept into action within hours of the Bangkok incident can surely not be the result of a careful investigation weighing all evidence and possibilities before drawing conclusions in one afternoon. It not only indicates how desperately the West is attempting to destroy the sovereign nation-state of Iran, but how far they've already gone in destroying the sovereignty of nation's like Thailand. It is expected that the US will reciprocate for this act of loyalty in coming months as Thaksin and his political machine gear up to once again destroy entirely the remnants of nationalist elements within Thailand.