Yuval Mond, an analyst with Terrogence, decribes the AQ presence in China as follows:"Generally speaking, AQ has no presence in China in the form of a designated operational local offshoot like the ones we are familiar with in Yeman, Algeria, Mali, Pakistan, Iraq etc. In fact, even on a higher dimension of ideology, China as a whole is not percieved as a battlefront for AQ, an Islamic territory where an Islamic state should be established through Jihad. However, the western province of China, which was annexed in 1949 by the People's Liberation Army, is the eastern province of a historic geographical region known in Islamic tradition as Turkistan, 'Land of the Turks'. The population in this region are an ethnic Turkic group called Uyghurs, the majority of which are Sunni Muslim by religion. Before 1949, the region enjoyed a short term of independence, The East Turkistan Republic, but after the annexation it was subjagated to Chinese rule and its name changed to Xinjiang,…
Uyghurstan Liberation Front - Turkistan
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