Quote: (09-25-2015 05:31 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Quote: (09-25-2015 05:24 AM)El Chinito loco Wrote:
They could be uighurs being flown home from Thailand after they tried to transit through that country to Turkey or some other safe haven that will finance and train them with CIA backing.
The Thai officials gave them over to China. The thing is this - why would China bother with them at all if they were not some kind of activists? Some had a prison record and others were just agitating for Islam in Thailand.
I have no doubt that if you are just a Chinese Muslim and leave for Germany the Chinese authorities will just say: "Good riddance and good luck at enriching those nations!" They were obviously afraid that they would be agitating as expats as well or they had other info on them. They crack down on online activists as well who can post content for Chinese to see.
China certainly does not care whether some 109 of their billion plus people move to greener pastures.
Yes, they were most definitely extremists with extensive rap sheets or intel folders on them. For China to go through diplomatic channels to get them back means they were pretty important for one reason or another. You're right, a Chinese citizen who doesn't want to live in China anymore just has to purchase a one way ticket and noone will give a fuck, even better if they leave with all their extended family too..unless they are absconding with corruption money to live abroad, members of extremist groups, or businessmen/politicians trying to evade the law.
Another thing these extremists have been doing is going to the west and forming lobby groups to try and solicit donations and persuade mainstream media to agitate for their cause. The thing is..the western world is gullible enough to fall for this line.
Also, it falls into various established western intel agencies agendas who also want to destablize the western front of China so central asia is left wide open.
None of these uighur groups are acting alone all of them have some connection to either the west (outright CIA backed through Turkey) or are affiliated with some larger ideological fundamentalist group like ISIS or AQ.
What taxpaying citizens of the U.S. should be concerned with is that the government is actually throwing money at groups like this in the classic the enemy of my enemy is my friend move which always backfires in the end.