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complex.
This document summarizes a report by the Audit Commission on risks related to English local authorities' deposits in Icelandic banks. Some key points:
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2. A very nice article by the German state-owned news agency Deutsche
Welle, about China’s role in Afghanistan. According to Deutsche Welle
China did not attack the Taliban in Afghanistan on the side of the United
States, but she has made great efforts in order for a truce to be reached
between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The main reason China is
interested in Afghanistan is because she does not want ISIS to get a foothold
in Afghanistan, because that would allow ISIS to support the separatists
Uyghurs in China’s XinJiang province. As you can see at the following map
China and Afghanistan have common borders. Actually the borders of the
other Central Asian counties with China are not very secure, and ISIS could
also use these countries to enter China.
Map 1 China-Afghanistan
Also note that the Sunni Islamist organization East Turkestan Islamic
Movement (ETIM) is operating in XinJiang, and it is mainly supported by
Turkey. As you can read at the following BBC article there is tension
3. between Turkey and China over the very large Muslim population of
XinJiang. See “China-Turkey relationship strained over Uyghurs”, July
2015.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33440998
I have already said that what Turkey really wants is that China heavily
invests in Turkey, so that in return Turkey will use her influence over the
Uyghurs and ETIM to keep things calm in XinJiang. According to Deutsche
Welle many Uyghurs use fake Turkish passports to enter Pakistan and
Afghanistan in order to receive military training in the Islamic military
camps that operate in these countries, and which are mainly funded with
Saudi money according to Deutsche Welle.
I have many times referred to the Arab and Iranian effort to block the TAPI
(Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) Pipeline, promoted by
Turkmenistan and India and supported by the United States. TAPI is for
Central Asia what the Trans-Saharan Pipeline is for North Africa, and what
the Qatar-Turkey and the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipelines are for the Middle East.
Map 2 TAPI
4. Deutsche Welle also mentions that the Uyghours believe that China is
undermine their religion and culture, and that she also explois their natural
resources. As you can see at the following Wikipedia map XinJiang is
among the richest, if not the richest in oil region of China.
Map 3 China’s Oil Reserves
6. the ancient years and the ancient Silk Roads XinJiang was very important
for China, because underneath XinJiang lie the inaccessible and hostile
Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, which are the natural borders between
China and India.
Map 4 XinJiang
http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/88/64288-004-91040875.gif
Map 5 Himalayas-Tibet
8. http://www.tibettravelplanner.com/assets/images/Maps/tibet-location-
map.jpg
At the southern part of XinJiang lies the Taklamakan Desert. At the
following map I have marked with red the Tibetan Plateau and with black
the Taklamakan Desert.
Map 6 Tibet-Taklamakan Desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#/media/File:Zheng_He.png
At the following Wikipedia map you can see the ancient Silk Roads, and as
you can see they pass above the Himalayas and Tibet. The Silk Roads were
passing both underneath and above the Taklamakan Desert.
Map 7 Ancient Silk Roads
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert#/media/File:Tarimriverma
p.png
For the Deutsche Welle article see:
“What does China want from the Afghan peace process”?, January 2016
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Siegfried O. Wolf, director of research at the Brussels-based South Asia Democratic
Forum (SADF), said the claims by some Chinese sources that Uighur militants use fake
Turkish passports to enter Afghanistan and Pakistan to join extremist groups makes
Beijing increasingly concerned about the long war in Afghanistan.
"In the Afghan and Pakistani camps, which are heavily funded by Saudi Arabia, Uighurs
receive ideological indoctrination as well as military training," said the analyst.
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China has also signed multibillion dollar deals with Afghanistan, some of which involve
the extraction of copper from the Mes Aynak mine in Logar Province - believed to be
worth $10 billion. State-owned company China Metallurgical Group Corporation
acquired the extraction rights of the mine in 2007 for $3.5 billion (2.6 billion euros), but
the project has never actually kicked off given the deteriorating security situation and
poor infrastructure in Afghanistan.
http://www.dw.com/en/what-does-china-want-from-the-afghan-peace-
process/a-19011501?maca=en-newsletter_asia_taeglich-5132-html-
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