Summary
The Uyghur militant group Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), which played a role in toppling Syria’s Assad regime, has vowed to take its fight to China.
In a propaganda video, TIP fighters declared their mission to “liberate East Turkistan” from Chinese control, referencing cities in Xinjiang.
TIP has been active in Syria for over a decade, aligned with Islamist group HTS.
While their capabilities remain unclear, TIP’s rhetoric signals potential threats to China’s global assets. Beijing may push for their extradition, raising challenges for Syria’s new government and regional stability.
Well, we know the ML and hexbears are against this.
I literally saw this as a hexbear thread first. Somehow this is America doing this, and the only possible reason they could have is that America put them up to it, and as a result China needs to be more aggressive because they’re too passive and kind right now.
Hehe. That’s the spin they would use.
It’s nice to step out of the bubble every once in a while
Hey there! I was hoping one of you all would hop in to tell us how this is all western propaganda and how China isn’t mistreating anyone.
Gonna side with China or agree genocide and “reeducation” is wrong?
I’m not in the business of telling you how to think
I’m in the business of asking how you think. So how do you think? Wink twice if you need to be saved.
Lol, I live in the west. All I get is western propaganda. Seeing and hearing the other side feels nice.
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The other side is what?
Average western news enjoyer
But you could actually answer their question rather than obviously avoiding it.
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That’s not the only way for them to win. They can also just take over a territory and perform gorilla warfare that costs China so much that they have to just give up. Is that likely to succeed? Probably not. It’s a lot more likely than trying to overthrow the entire Chinese government though.
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That’s not really how a gorilla war is won. You don’t just have targets sitting around to strike. You hit their supply lines and just cause mayham, and get the fuck out before they can hit back. You hide within civilians so your troops can’t be found. You force the enemy in over-retaliation, which causes them to create more enemies and commit more resources to strike.
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The Syrian way of doing this was putting you into torture prison if they didnt like you at the checkpoint. The Israeli way of having a dozen checkpoints a mile and total surveillance still fails to prevent people from resisting the occupation in the Westbank
For sure it will be difficult with such an authoritarian state. I’m not arguing that. I’m just saying it wouldn’t be the same type of war as Ukraine.
guerilla*
Alternatively if China gets involved in Taiwan, it would also be one of the best times to try to secede.
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Well… that’s not clear. And if they invaded Taiwan - an action that would cause catastrophic economic effects in basically every single major country in the world, because part of Taiwan’s final defense strategy is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag before we let the PRC have them” - they’ll make a staunch enemy of nearly EVERYONE. It wouldn’t be a case of “military aid”. It would be a case of “almost everyone helps Taiwan defend themselves from China”.
It’s not just Taiwan, the US would stink the island before China could seize intact chip labs.
Again, they wouldn’t need to. Taiwan has openly stated that wrecking their own advanced industry such that it can’t be co-opted is a specific point of their strategic defense plans vis a vis the PRC.
The problem with the Chinese military is that they have not participated in recent conflicts.
Syria is quite a long ways from China. Makes me wonder how serious they are. Then again, such operations aren’t a foreign concept in the middle east, so what do I know?
