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  18. <p begin="00:00:00.000" end="00:00:10.983">&#9834; (Intro Music) &#9834;</p>
  19. <p begin="00:00:10.983" end="00:00:13.271">(James Corbett): On October 28, 2013,</p>
  20. <p begin="00:00:13.271" end="00:00:15.857">an SUV carrying three passengers<br/>crashed into a crowd</p>
  21. <p begin="00:00:15.857" end="00:00:18.408">of people waiting outside the gate<br/>of the Forbidden City,</p>
  22. <p begin="00:00:18.408" end="00:00:21.795">across from the infamous Tiananmen <br/>Square in the heart of Beijing.</p>
  23. <p begin="00:00:21.898" end="00:00:24.690">All three inside the car<br/>were killed in the subsequent fire,</p>
  24. <p begin="00:00:24.690" end="00:00:26.727">along with two bystanders in the crowd.</p>
  25. <p begin="00:00:27.094" end="00:00:28.661">38 others were injured.</p>
  26. <p begin="00:00:29.058" end="00:00:32.523">Although not the most spectacular terror<br/>attack in the world in recent years,</p>
  27. <p begin="00:00:32.523" end="00:00:35.778">the scene of flames and carnage under <br/>the watchful gaze of Chairman Mao,</p>
  28. <p begin="00:00:35.778" end="00:00:38.333">in the shadow of the <br/>heavily-guarded Tiananmen Square,</p>
  29. <p begin="00:00:38.333" end="00:00:40.465">was as unmistakable to the <br/>Chinese population</p>
  30. <p begin="00:00:40.685" end="00:00:44.392">as the smoking ruins of the Pentagon<br/>was to the America population.</p>
  31. <p begin="00:00:44.641" end="00:00:45.735">This was,</p>
  32. <p begin="00:00:45.735" end="00:00:47.642">or was intended to be taken as,</p>
  33. <p begin="00:00:47.642" end="00:00:50.281">an attack on the Chinese homeland.</p>
  34. <p begin="00:00:50.587" end="00:00:53.737">It was not long before the incident<br/>was blamed on Muslim separatists</p>
  35. <p begin="00:00:53.737" end="00:00:56.125">from the country's northwestern <br/>Xinjiang province,</p>
  36. <p begin="00:00:56.305" end="00:00:58.366">China's largest administrative district,</p>
  37. <p begin="00:00:58.366" end="00:01:01.675">and a geostrategic area<br/>that shares 2,800 kilometers of border</p>
  38. <p begin="00:01:01.675" end="00:01:04.582">with Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and<br/>Kazakhstan.</p>
  39. <p begin="00:01:04.582" end="00:01:07.890">As such, the government was quick to <br/>claim that the incident represented</p>
  40. <p begin="00:01:07.890" end="00:01:10.404">a bold new escalation in China's <br/>ongoing struggle </p>
  41. <p begin="00:01:10.404" end="00:01:12.074">with its restive Muslim population,</p>
  42. <p begin="00:01:12.184" end="00:01:14.186">part of the ethnic Uyghur minority.</p>
  43. <p begin="00:01:14.450" end="00:01:18.096">Since then, two mass murder incidents<br/>involving knife-wielding masked men,</p>
  44. <p begin="00:01:18.096" end="00:01:21.562">later identified as members of the <br/>East Turkestan Islamic Movement,</p>
  45. <p begin="00:01:21.562" end="00:01:23.858">have drawn further attention to the issue.</p>
  46. <p begin="00:01:24.118" end="00:01:25.854">(Male Reporter): A group of men</p>
  47. <p begin="00:01:25.854" end="00:01:27.250">-- perhaps even one woman --</p>
  48. <p begin="00:01:27.410" end="00:01:29.566">went into this train station</p>
  49. <p begin="00:01:29.566" end="00:01:31.588">late into the evening here in Kunming</p>
  50. <p begin="00:01:31.588" end="00:01:35.646">and started hacking at people<br/>waiting in the line to get tickets</p>
  51. <p begin="00:01:35.646" end="00:01:37.523">and in other parts of the station.</p>
  52. <p begin="00:01:37.523" end="00:01:39.374">The police were deployed to the area.</p>
  53. <p begin="00:01:39.374" end="00:01:42.172">Four people, they say, were killed:</p>
  54. <p begin="00:01:42.172" end="00:01:45.040">four suspects killed,<br/>one suspect injured,</p>
  55. <p begin="00:01:45.040" end="00:01:47.197">who is the woman I describe.</p>
  56. <p begin="00:01:47.647" end="00:01:50.098">There really were these horrific images</p>
  57. <p begin="00:01:50.098" end="00:01:52.762">coming out on social media <br/>late into the night</p>
  58. <p begin="00:01:52.762" end="00:01:54.986">-- and some of them deleted <br/>subsequently --</p>
  59. <p begin="00:01:54.986" end="00:01:57.247">of pools of blood and dead bodies</p>
  60. <p begin="00:01:57.247" end="00:02:00.267">lying strewn across the Kunming<br/>train station,</p>
  61. <p begin="00:02:00.267" end="00:02:04.767">this large train station here<br/>in the far southwest of China, John.</p>
  62. <p begin="00:02:04.948" end="00:02:08.248">A blast has occurred at a railway<br/>station in &#220;r&#252;mqi,</p>
  63. <p begin="00:02:08.248" end="00:02:11.485">the capital of northwest China's<br/>Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.</p>
  64. <p begin="00:02:11.485" end="00:02:13.441">Government sources said details</p>
  65. <p begin="00:02:13.441" end="00:02:15.238">about the blast and casualties</p>
  66. <p begin="00:02:15.238" end="00:02:16.800">are unclear at this moment.</p>
  67. <p begin="00:02:17.050" end="00:02:20.099">Now ambulances and police cars<br/>have rushed to the scene.</p>
  68. <p begin="00:02:20.418" end="00:02:23.868">Police have cordoned off all entrances<br/>to the square of the station,</p>
  69. <p begin="00:02:24.128" end="00:02:26.640">and a police source said that<br/>train services</p>
  70. <p begin="00:02:26.640" end="00:02:28.609"> have been suspended at the station.</p>
  71. <p begin="00:02:30.180" end="00:02:31.574">As Pepe Escobar,</p>
  72. <p begin="00:02:31.574" end="00:02:34.890">geopolitical analyst and frequent<br/>BoilingFrogsPost.com contributor,</p>
  73. <p begin="00:02:34.890" end="00:02:36.992">explained last week on<br/><span tts:fontStyle="italic">The Corbett Report</span>,</p>
  74. <p begin="00:02:36.992" end="00:02:40.877">the Uyghurs are a persecuted minority in<br/>the country's untamed west, who find </p>
  75. <p begin="00:02:40.877" end="00:02:44.074">few opportunities for advancement in <br/>China's mainstream society,</p>
  76. <p begin="00:02:44.074" end="00:02:46.608">dominated by the ethnic majority<br/>Han Chinese.</p>
  77. <p begin="00:02:47.538" end="00:02:52.644">The problem is,<br/>there's no political process</p>
  78. <p begin="00:02:53.054" end="00:02:55.366">-- logic --<br/>behind all this.</p>
  79. <p begin="00:02:55.598" end="00:02:57.955">They are... they feel that they are being</p>
  80. <p begin="00:02:57.955" end="00:03:00.792">-- which is, I would say,<br/>90 percent true --</p>
  81. <p begin="00:03:01.362" end="00:03:04.447">they are being invaded, decimated.</p>
  82. <p begin="00:03:04.447" end="00:03:08.539">And there's a sort of slow-motion<br/>cultural genocide </p>
  83. <p begin="00:03:08.539" end="00:03:11.511">of the Uyghurs all over Xinjiang.</p>
  84. <p begin="00:03:11.979" end="00:03:15.925">And not only in those Silk Road</p>
  85. <p begin="00:03:15.925" end="00:03:18.017">-- Northern Silk Road, Southern <br/>Silk Road --</p>
  86. <p begin="00:03:18.017" end="00:03:19.984">routes in the desert,</p>
  87. <p begin="00:03:19.984" end="00:03:23.458">around the Taklamakan Desert:<br/>in the big cities, as well.</p>
  88. <p begin="00:03:23.458" end="00:03:30.109">In Kashgar, where the Chinese have a<br/><span tts:fontStyle="italic">very</span> controversial project</p>
  89. <p begin="00:03:30.109" end="00:03:35.677">to raze the old Kashgar, <br/>old downtown Kashgar </p>
  90. <p begin="00:03:35.677" end="00:03:36.755">-- which is amazing.</p>
  91. <p begin="00:03:36.755" end="00:03:41.085">It's one of the most extraordinary places<br/>all over Eurasia,</p>
  92. <p begin="00:03:41.403" end="00:03:43.954">where they have that famous <br/>Sunday market,</p>
  93. <p begin="00:03:44.184" end="00:03:46.902">where you have not only Uyghurs</p>
  94. <p begin="00:03:46.902" end="00:03:51.712">but Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs:<br/>people from all over the region,</p>
  95. <p begin="00:03:51.712" end="00:03:54.847">from the Hindu Kush, from the Pamirs,<br/>from the Tian Shan Mountains; </p>
  96. <p begin="00:03:54.847" end="00:03:57.229">you name it: they go there <br/>to sell their wares.</p>
  97. <p begin="00:03:58.609" end="00:04:03.188">It is... Uyghurs, of course,<br/>it is a heavily Muslim population,</p>
  98. <p begin="00:04:03.188" end="00:04:08.731">but it's not a Wahhabi-style Islam at all.</p>
  99. <p begin="00:04:08.941" end="00:04:11.510">They are relatively tolerant</p>
  100. <p begin="00:04:11.510" end="00:04:13.819">compared to the Wahhabis, for instance.</p>
  101. <p begin="00:04:14.069" end="00:04:17.818">There is not a heavy infiltration</p>
  102. <p begin="00:04:17.818" end="00:04:21.324">of Wahhabi-style missionaries <br/>in that region.</p>
  103. <p begin="00:04:21.324" end="00:04:25.914">It is an economic, political, and<br/>cultural problem</p>
  104. <p begin="00:04:25.914" end="00:04:28.735">which the Chinese don't know<br/>how to solve.</p>
  105. <p begin="00:04:29.105" end="00:04:32.147">First of all, because they consider<br/>the Uyghurs</p>
  106. <p begin="00:04:32.147" end="00:04:34.524">-- let's put it bluntly --</p>
  107. <p begin="00:04:34.524" end="00:04:36.373">an inferior race;</p>
  108. <p begin="00:04:36.373" end="00:04:39.771">so they should be ruled by the<br/>Han Chinese,</p>
  109. <p begin="00:04:39.771" end="00:04:43.088">and they should be incorporated<br/>into this great </p>
  110. <p begin="00:04:43.697" end="00:04:48.118">western migration and <br/>development project in China.</p>
  111. <p begin="00:04:49.542" end="00:04:51.592">Uyghur disenfranchisement is<br/>played upon</p>
  112. <p begin="00:04:51.592" end="00:04:54.999">to foment Islamic radicalism<br/>and political separatist sentiment.</p>
  113. <p begin="00:04:55.032" end="00:04:56.773">The East Turkestan Islamic Movement,</p>
  114. <p begin="00:04:56.773" end="00:04:59.221">seeking to wrest Xinjiang from <br/>China's control,</p>
  115. <p begin="00:04:59.221" end="00:05:03.530">offers a number of parallels to the <br/>shadowy al-Qaeda terrorist organization,</p>
  116. <p begin="00:05:03.530" end="00:05:06.528">including a mysterious leader<br/>living in a secret mountain base</p>
  117. <p begin="00:05:06.528" end="00:05:09.455">in Pakistan's lawless border region, and</p>
  118. <p begin="00:05:09.455" end="00:05:12.067">-- as FBI whistleblower and <br/><span tts:fontStyle="italic">Boiling Frogs Post</span> founder</p>
  119. <p begin="00:05:12.067" end="00:05:15.056">Sibel Edmonds revealed<br/>in last year's series on Gladio B --</p>
  120. <p begin="00:05:15.346" end="00:05:18.414">direct support from NATO-associated<br/>Gladio operatives</p>
  121. <p begin="00:05:18.484" end="00:05:20.925">seeking to destabilize a <br/>geostrategic region</p>
  122. <p begin="00:05:20.925" end="00:05:23.282">in an ongoing, under-the-radar war</p>
  123. <p begin="00:05:23.282" end="00:05:24.927">for control of Central Asia.</p>
  124. <p begin="00:05:26.171" end="00:05:27.792">This is extremely important.</p>
  125. <p begin="00:05:27.792" end="00:05:30.771">Again, Xinjiang: Muslim population.</p>
  126. <p begin="00:05:30.771" end="00:05:32.614">And they are referred to...</p>
  127. <p begin="00:05:32.614" end="00:05:35.106">-- in Turkey, they don't call them <br/>Xinjiang.</p>
  128. <p begin="00:05:35.106" end="00:05:37.604">It's "[East] Turkestan,"</p>
  129. <p begin="00:05:37.604" end="00:05:41.039">[East] Turkestan.<br/>They speak Turkic dialect.</p>
  130. <p begin="00:05:41.039" end="00:05:42.142">Guess what?</p>
  131. <p begin="00:05:42.142" end="00:05:44.510">"Up there? A great place!"</p>
  132. <p begin="00:05:44.540" end="00:05:47.175">"Imagine, they get their independence: "</p>
  133. <p begin="00:05:47.785" end="00:05:50.597">"We can have our little mini base there!"</p>
  134. <p begin="00:05:50.597" end="00:05:52.728">"You know how close we are to China?"</p>
  135. <p begin="00:05:52.728" end="00:05:56.415">I mean, on one hand you can say<br/>"Yeah, there's Taiwan out there."</p>
  136. <p begin="00:05:56.415" end="00:05:59.357">Well, this is going to be even <br/>more important than Taiwan!</p>
  137. <p begin="00:05:59.357" end="00:06:04.959">And then, look again: the other important <br/>strategic location for Xinjiang,</p>
  138. <p begin="00:06:04.959" end="00:06:07.807">-- for [East] Turkestan, <br/>a.k.a. Uyghuristan --</p>
  139. <p begin="00:06:07.807" end="00:06:10.898">You look out there: you see Pakistan;<br/>you see Afghanistan.</p>
  140. <p begin="00:06:10.898" end="00:06:13.689">This is a very important region.</p>
  141. <p begin="00:06:13.689" end="00:06:17.624">This has been a very important <br/>region, prize,</p>
  142. <p begin="00:06:17.624" end="00:06:19.702">for the United States, for the West.</p>
  143. <p begin="00:06:19.702" end="00:06:22.776">We've been...<br/>We've been doing a <span tts:fontStyle="italic">lot</span> of things there.</p>
  144. <p begin="00:06:22.892" end="00:06:24.527">Every time you hear...</p>
  145. <p begin="00:06:25.057" end="00:06:27.118">-- at least when I was working there,</p>
  146. <p begin="00:06:27.118" end="00:06:30.816">during this period that<br/>FBI was investigating these...</p>
  147. <p begin="00:06:30.816" end="00:06:34.331">-- not operations there, but people here:<br/>the criminals in the US</p>
  148. <p begin="00:06:34.331" end="00:06:36.699">who <span tts:fontStyle="italic">carried out</span> the operations there.</p>
  149. <p begin="00:06:37.429" end="00:06:39.046">Those terrorist attacks:</p>
  150. <p begin="00:06:39.046" end="00:06:40.569">they were orchestrated</p>
  151. <p begin="00:06:41.169" end="00:06:42.969">from a long distance.</p>
  152. <p begin="00:06:42.969" end="00:06:45.013">You go to Turkey;</p>
  153. <p begin="00:06:45.013" end="00:06:47.046">Then, from Turkey, you go to Brussels;</p>
  154. <p begin="00:06:47.046" end="00:06:48.358">to England;</p>
  155. <p begin="00:06:48.628" end="00:06:51.654">and then you go to the United States.<br/>So, all the orchestration:</p>
  156. <p begin="00:06:51.654" end="00:06:55.338">it's not some minorities or some Muslims<br/>get together, suddenly they go and...</p>
  157. <p begin="00:06:55.728" end="00:06:56.984">It doesn't happen.</p>
  158. <p begin="00:06:56.984" end="00:06:58.418">It didn't happen that way,</p>
  159. <p begin="00:06:58.418" end="00:07:00.736">at least during that period.</p>
  160. <p begin="00:07:01.650" end="00:07:05.093">(James): Western support for the <br/>Xinjiang terrorists is not difficult to spot,</p>
  161. <p begin="00:07:05.093" end="00:07:08.261">and includes the fact that the East<br/>Turkestan government-in-exile,</p>
  162. <p begin="00:07:08.261" end="00:07:10.074">led by Anwar Yusuf Turani,</p>
  163. <p begin="00:07:10.074" end="00:07:11.758">is based in Washington, DC;</p>
  164. <p begin="00:07:11.758" end="00:07:13.838">has spoken at the National Press Club;</p>
  165. <p begin="00:07:13.838" end="00:07:16.324">met with President Clinton during<br/>his administration;</p>
  166. <p begin="00:07:16.324" end="00:07:19.304">and received explicit offers of support<br/>from President Bush</p>
  167. <p begin="00:07:19.650" end="00:07:21.949">and the National Endowment for <br/>Democracy-funded </p>
  168. <p begin="00:07:21.949" end="00:07:23.369">Uyghur World Congress:<br/></p>
  169. <p begin="00:07:23.418" end="00:07:26.391">a German-based organization<br/>with a Sweden-based spokesman,</p>
  170. <p begin="00:07:26.391" end="00:07:29.853">Dilxat Raxit, that Central Asia <br/>analyst Christoph Germann</p>
  171. <p begin="00:07:29.853" end="00:07:31.470">told <span tts:fontStyle="italic">The Corbett Report</span> last week</p>
  172. <p begin="00:07:31.630" end="00:07:33.785">asks as the Western media's go-to man</p>
  173. <p begin="00:07:33.785" end="00:07:35.911">for any and all stories about the region.</p>
  174. <p begin="00:07:37.207" end="00:07:39.988">He's probably the most-quoted person</p>
  175. <p begin="00:07:39.988" end="00:07:43.163">when it comes to any incident in Xinjiang</p>
  176. <p begin="00:07:43.163" end="00:07:45.303">which involves the Uyghur minority.</p>
  177. <p begin="00:07:46.033" end="00:07:47.070">I mentioned earlier</p>
  178. <p begin="00:07:47.070" end="00:07:51.417"> the <span tts:fontStyle="italic">Radio Free Europe/<br/> Radio Liberty</span> CIA propaganda organ;</p>
  179. <p begin="00:07:51.417" end="00:07:55.106">and there's also the<br/><span tts:fontStyle="italic">Radio Free Asia</span></p>
  180. <p begin="00:07:55.106" end="00:07:59.839">-- which is the equivalent for the<br/>Uyghurs, you could call it.</p>
  181. <p begin="00:08:00.069" end="00:08:03.656">And they report...<br/>a lot of their reports are a lot of...</p>
  182. <p begin="00:08:03.843" end="00:08:07.598">often sourced on the<br/>World Uyghur Congress</p>
  183. <p begin="00:08:07.598" end="00:08:09.986">and statements by Dilxat Raxit.</p>
  184. <p begin="00:08:09.986" end="00:08:12.555">But he's also cited by our<br/>mainstream media.</p>
  185. <p begin="00:08:12.555" end="00:08:15.467">If you look at Reuters or AP,<br/>doesn't matter:</p>
  186. <p begin="00:08:15.467" end="00:08:21.205">almost all reports about terrorist attacks<br/>in China, in Xinjiang,</p>
  187. <p begin="00:08:23.155" end="00:08:26.314">have the same structure.</p>
  188. <p begin="00:08:26.314" end="00:08:29.597">They start by mentioning the attack <br/>and what happened.</p>
  189. <p begin="00:08:29.597" end="00:08:33.068">Then, they try to frame it within <br/>a certain context,</p>
  190. <p begin="00:08:33.068" end="00:08:34.814">which seems...</p>
  191. <p begin="00:08:34.814" end="00:08:37.517">which tries to paint, to portray<br/>the attacks</p>
  192. <p begin="00:08:37.517" end="00:08:41.452">as inevitable consequences <br/>of government repression.</p>
  193. <p begin="00:08:41.552" end="00:08:44.192">And then they have this guy, Dilxat Raxit,</p>
  194. <p begin="00:08:44.192" end="00:08:49.398">who confirms this by bringing <br/>in his expertise about the subject</p>
  195. <p begin="00:08:49.398" end="00:08:53.052">-- although he's based in Sweden, <br/>and he usually doesn't even know <br/></p>
  196. <p begin="00:08:53.052" end="00:08:56.420">what happened in Xinjiang earlier<br/>today, when he's asked.</p>
  197. <p begin="00:08:56.420" end="00:09:00.236">And after the latest terrorist attack <br/>in &#220;r&#252;mqi,</p>
  198. <p begin="00:09:00.236" end="00:09:02.863">the capital of Xinjiang,</p>
  199. <p begin="00:09:03.433" end="00:09:05.939">he talked to Reuters within hours<br/>of the attack,</p>
  200. <p begin="00:09:05.939" end="00:09:08.862">before any details had become known<br/>out of China.</p>
  201. <p begin="00:09:08.862" end="00:09:10.855">And he told them basically,</p>
  202. <p begin="00:09:10.855" end="00:09:14.460">"Yes, this was the consequence <br/>of government repression,"</p>
  203. <p begin="00:09:14.460" end="00:09:18.080">"and such incidents could happen<br/>again at any time."</p>
  204. <p begin="00:09:18.080" end="00:09:19.390">That was his statement;</p>
  205. <p begin="00:09:19.390" end="00:09:22.214">and that was picked up by the<br/>Chinese media,</p>
  206. <p begin="00:09:22.374" end="00:09:26.052">and they were very outraged<br/>about this statement.</p>
  207. <p begin="00:09:28.981" end="00:09:30.850">The incidents so far are by no means</p>
  208. <p begin="00:09:30.850" end="00:09:32.492">massive or spectacular enough</p>
  209. <p begin="00:09:32.492" end="00:09:35.381">to fundamentally change the <br/>course of Chinese society</p>
  210. <p begin="00:09:35.381" end="00:09:37.438">or bring about Xinjiang's independence,</p>
  211. <p begin="00:09:37.438" end="00:09:39.916">but they are serving <br/>a number of purposes.</p>
  212. <p begin="00:09:39.916" end="00:09:43.390">For the West, the attacks help take<br/>the battle for control of Central Asia</p>
  213. <p begin="00:09:43.390" end="00:09:45.414">directly into the Chinese homeland,</p>
  214. <p begin="00:09:45.414" end="00:09:48.641">and help destabilize a region that,<br/>as part of President Xi's </p>
  215. <p begin="00:09:48.641" end="00:09:51.265"> New Silk Road Corridor<br/>of pipelines and trade routes,</p>
  216. <p begin="00:09:51.484" end="00:09:53.793">is of increasing economic <br/>importance to Beijing.</p>
  217. <p begin="00:09:54.813" end="00:09:57.628">But Beijing, too, gains from the attacks<br/>in the same way that</p>
  218. <p begin="00:09:57.628" end="00:10:01.344"> authoritarian power structures always<br/>benefit from attacks and atrocities:</p>
  219. <p begin="00:10:01.594" end="00:10:04.918">by making the formerly impossible<br/>appear probable.</p>
  220. <p begin="00:10:05.218" end="00:10:06.386">As Li Wei, </p>
  221. <p begin="00:10:06.386" end="00:10:10.339">a terrorism expert at the China Institutes<br/>of Contemporary International Relations,</p>
  222. <p begin="00:10:10.339" end="00:10:13.532">told the Chinese government<br/>mouthpiece <span tts:fontStyle="italic">Global Times</span> last week,</p>
  223. <p begin="00:10:30.443" end="00:10:33.666">Beijing is now openly mulling new<br/>anti-terror legislation</p>
  224. <p begin="00:10:33.666" end="00:10:35.450">that some are calling China's Patriot Act,</p>
  225. <p begin="00:10:35.746" end="00:10:39.455">and many analysts are expecting<br/>to openly target the Uyghur population.</p>
  226. <p begin="00:10:39.762" end="00:10:41.911">Given that the government is<br/>already increasing </p>
  227. <p begin="00:10:41.911" end="00:10:43.781">its network of informants <br/>in the region,</p>
  228. <p begin="00:10:43.781" end="00:10:46.234">with such programs as offering <br/>cash rewards</p>
  229. <p begin="00:10:46.234" end="00:10:49.555">for those who inform on neighbors<br/>with too much facial hair,</p>
  230. <p begin="00:10:49.555" end="00:10:53.244">it is questionable whether formal<br/>terror legislation is even needed at all.</p>
  231. <p begin="00:10:53.836" end="00:10:58.102">In the end, as with so many of <br/>these contrived geopolitical conflicts,</p>
  232. <p begin="00:10:58.102" end="00:11:01.681">the only people who clearly lose<br/>are the Uyghur people themselves,</p>
  233. <p begin="00:11:01.681" end="00:11:04.234">whose economic and political<br/>marginalization seem set </p>
  234. <p begin="00:11:04.234" end="00:11:05.557">to increase from here.</p>
  235. <p begin="00:11:06.203" end="00:11:08.505">In the great irony of global geopolitics,<br/></p>
  236. <p begin="00:11:08.505" end="00:11:11.318">this will itself create a greater pool<br/>of disenfranchised youth</p>
  237. <p begin="00:11:11.318" end="00:11:13.803"> to draw upon for future terror attacks,</p>
  238. <p begin="00:11:13.803" end="00:11:17.154">thus perpetuating a descending cycle<br/>of chaos and violence.</p>
  239. <p begin="00:11:17.374" end="00:11:20.262">And sadly, the only plausible way out <br/>of this,</p>
  240. <p begin="00:11:20.312" end="00:11:22.570">a plan for bringing about greater <br/>opportunities</p>
  241. <p begin="00:11:22.570" end="00:11:26.249">for the Uyghur people to engage<br/>in China's ongoing economic miracle,</p>
  242. <p begin="00:11:26.249" end="00:11:28.237">is so far off the political radar</p>
  243. <p begin="00:11:28.237" end="00:11:30.950">that it can't be found on anyone's map.</p>
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