Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Oct 12, 2010 at 7:48pm
Turkey and China are now strategic partners. All that unpleasantness with the Uighurs has been forgiven.
The Uighurs should be able to understand that they are the unlucky bunch: They are not Palestinians, they don’t have an “audience” among Turkish voters, and their feud is merely with the Chinese who are, sadly, not Jews.
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Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Man, they're not even pretending any more. So do we yank the F-35?
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Also, at least the Uighurs will have lots of Inner Mongolians, Tibetans, Kazakhs, etc., to talk to under the bus.
Sep '10
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I'd like to get in touch my Inner Mongolian. Too bad I'm Siberian.
Jul '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Where are you in Siberia? My wife is from Novosibirsk.
Jul '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
It's worse than that....it's the F-22.
Jun '10
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Kenneth
It's worse than that....it's the F-22. · Oct 12 at 8:31pm
Sell them the plane, but not the avionics.
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
I'm not sure yet about the F-35, but the more I look at the world, the more I think the structural realists were really on to something.
Sep '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Kenneth
Where are you in Siberia? My wife is from Novosibirsk. · Oct 12 at 8:30pm
My avatar is a Siberian Cat.
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Just in case any Moderate Muslim Watch fans want to get into the complexities of this, the Uighurs are not necessarily the Dalai Lama types, sad to say. If you want to look for examples of the AKP taking a vigorous stand against radical Islamism, I guess you could--in a sort of perverse way--read this as just that. As I've been saying, the best way to predict what the AKP will do is not to think, "They're committed Islamists," but to think, "They pursue the policies that will most enrich them and maximize their power in the coming 2-5 years." (Long-term is a different story.) I've found that model to have more heuristic value than any other when it comes to them.
May '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
The Chinese are buying the world.
May '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
The important question is, what does Mark Steyn think about the Uighur situation?
Oct '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
I know this shouldn't strike me funny, but "Uighur" sounds a lot like what I would expect someone being thrown under the bus to sound like.
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
That actually made me laugh more than any comment previously posted on Ricochet. I wonder if I should admit to finding this funny. Probably not. Officially, this isn't funny. Unofficially, that is incredibly funny, even on the fifth reading.
I hate to say it, Paul, but your last name is kind of amusing me right now, too.
Oct '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Let's not forget that the most successfull empire ever seen in this world (the Mongols) came from the steppes of Asia, where most Uighers now live. Genghis Khan and his successors unfied hundreds of ethnic groups into the most powerful light army the world has ever seen.
China and Turkey should tread very lightly. What happened once can happen again, and this time united steppe-nomads would attack with a common idealogy and at least some modern weapons. Their inexhaustible supply of horses are the ideal transport for such an army in such terrain, even in the modern world.
It would not be impossible for them to conquer territory where weaponized nuke facilities are already operating. I am sure they would have plenty of foreign volunteers who will show them how to operate them.
Oct '10
Re: Uighurs Thrown Under the Silk Road Express Bus
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
I hate to say it, Paul, but your last name is kind of amusing me right now, too. · Oct 13 at 3:39am
With a name like this, you have to have a sense of humor.