to divide and disintegrate the land, waging war against its people and its beliefs by every mean possible?

Nothing can be said in this context. However, the current international climate may present China with the opportunity to make some local or regional gains. This is also a question of the conjunction of benefits with Pakistan, India and Russia, and more particularly, with Western Turkistan. Moreover, China has lowered the level of freedom to a minimum, by improving its internal legislation system. In this way it hopes to confront any public protest. Even though these protests have never been classified as anything more than “security incidents” until now, the penalties for these incidents can include execution. Let’s continue. This can be called running away to the future instead of facing the truth.

A. At an international level

The Chinese authorities used the terms “separatism and separatists” and “extremism and extremists” against Uyghur people before September 11. However, after the events of September 11, China perceived that here was “opportunity not to be missed”. And it started to use the terms “terrorism and terrorist” when describing the Uyghur people. Thus an exploitation of security issues began at both local and national levels. China announced that it was joining the “Struggle against international terrorism” with America a few days after September 11. And retrospectively, they described public protests and some incidents that occurred in Turkistan in the 1990s as terrorist activities. In this context, the foreign affair department spokesman Sun Yuxi said the following on 18.10.2001: “Terrorist activities carried out by activists from Eastern Turkistan within China’s territory do not threaten only the security and stability of China, but also of the entire region.” Accordingly, China has declared that “it will join the international community in their struggle against terrorism, which is also present in Eastern Turkistan”. What has China gained by joining this campaign?

The essential objective of the Shanghai Five platform, formed by Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan and Tajikistan in 26.04.1996, including Uzbekistan in 15.06. 2001, was to solve border disputes and provide unity in activities that required trust in the military arena. All aimed to decrease tension along the border regions as a beginning to signing joint agreements. Therefore, this platform was not initially established as an international regional organization; any such organization would have to have a contract, with pre-determined principles within that contract and rules that regulate operations, as well as requirements for membership.32 However, in later meetings, this platform became essentially transformed into an organization that speaks in the name of Chinese policy. As