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There is armed resistance, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki
by forkLding 8y ago
There is armed resistance, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party
They're deemed a terrorist group by US and EU and have fought in Syria.
- angry_octet 8y agoI don't think they are really active in China though. If any of the modern IED tech had made it across we'd be seeing more than knife attacks. They are very good at supressing information but the casualties would be too large to cover up.
- chaostheory 8y agoThere have been more than knife attacks. China is good at suppressing info in the region. It’s easy because no other major nation state seamingly cares about the region at least for now and also due to its geographic location
- forkLding 8y agoI've heard of bus bombs and random unexplained groups of police casualties in Xinjiang but the Chinese Communist Party needs to maintain the facade of stability or else it would be breaking it's "promise" to the people.