Chinese Turkestan – Has It Disappeared???

[johnkarls]

.
Chinese Turkestan – Has It Disappeared, and Why Aren’t Al Jazeera and Al Qaida Livid???


Benazir Bhutto makes no mention in “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and The West” of Chinese Turkestan (aka Sinkiang Province) which was religiously Islamic and ethnically Turkish!!!

Chinese Turkestan (aka Sinkiang Province) and Russian Turkestan (from which all of the Russian “stans” come – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) comprise a vast area sprawling across much of China and the old Soviet Union.

The Arab Empire, which could be called the “center of civilization” for nearly a millennium, was conquered about 1300 by the Ottoman Turks sweeping in from Central Asia – an incredibly large area known during the 20th Century as Russian Turkestan and Chinese Turkestan.

Because neither Russia during the Soviet era, nor China following Mao’s accession to power in 1949, placed much emphasis on the welfare of their respective Turkestan populations, both Russian Turkestan and Chinese Turkestan were used as atomic testing grounds by their respective conquerors!!!

And, indeed, for reasons of logistics, etc., both Russia and China located their atomic research labs, production facilities, etc., in their respective Turkestans to be near their atomic test sites.

WHICH PRODUCED THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT OF 1959!!!

And if Western intelligence had understood and believed the Sino-Soviet split, it probably would have been unnecessary, for example, to fight the Vietnam War!!!

However, Western intelligence thought the Sino-Soviet split was a charade staged to lull the West into a false sense of confidence that would not fear monolithic worldwide communism.

The reason for the split???

Both the Kremlin and Mao “woke up in a cold sweat” nearly simultaneously to the “night mare” that a popular leader in the Turkestans could unite both provinces under the aegis of either Russia or China, leaving the other country a NON-NUCLEAR POWER overnight!!!

Neither the Kremlin nor Mao ever trusted the other again!!!

And both worked feverishly to reduce/eliminate their exposure to the danger posed by this huge religiously Islamic and ethnically Turkish population sprawling across a vast area of the Soviet Union and China.

*****
Accordingly, it is very bizarre that Benazir Bhutto fails in “Reconciliation” to make any mention of Chinese Turkestan.

I have not really kept track of Chinese Turkestan since the Sino-Soviet split. And, accordingly, I am guessing that Benazir Bhutto’s failure to mention Chinese Turkestan may be due to Chinese eradication of Islamic/Turkish culture in Sinkiang, just like China has been trying to eradicate Bhuddist culture in Tibet.

So why did Benazir Bhutto fail to mention Chinese Turkestan???

Have the Chinese succeeded???

And, if so, why aren’t Al Jazeera and Al Qaida livid???