China
Forging Strategic Ties to Radical Islam
The Iranian ^ |
7/21/06 | China confidential
Posted on 07/22/2006 11:22:02 AM PDT
Communist China has been having growing internal problems with
Islam. This is a religion of violence that thrives when it is confronted with
violence. It is a religion built on hatred. – As prophesied several months ago
-- This battle of Islam against Chine shall worsen. And it shall not be too
long before China shall find itself at war within and without with Islam as
this religion with it tentacles shall reach out to overthrow china. This alliance that the Chinese are making
here is an alliance of deceit. Both on the part of the Chinese and on the part
of the Islamists they seek to offer arms in exchange for peace within their
borders. Because of China’s destruction of all religion and tradition they have
made their people a prey to Islam which thrives in such atmosphere. –And it shall come to pass that China shall
end its persecution of the Church which does not seek to overthrow china so
that it can with its resources battle Islam which seeks its overthrow.
China is pursuing a troubling,
tricky alliance with radical, rightwing Islam, or Islamism, despite concerns
about its own restive Muslim population.
In China's view, the potential
rewards of cozying up to Islamist countries and terrorist groups outweigh the
risks. In forging ties to Shiite Iran, its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah,
and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas, Beijing
believes it can effectively buy protection against the export of Islamism to
China's western province of Xinjiang, which is home to some 55 million Muslims,
including radical fundamentalists and ethnic separatists.
The policy has the blessing of
the Chinese military, which is also supporting and dictating policy toward
North Korea (more about this below).
The architect of the
pro-Islamist policy, Liu Yazhou, is an extremely influential Lieutenant General
and Deputy Political Commissar in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, best
known for his essays and books on international affairs and strategy. The
51-year-old non-combatant officer is a dedicated nationalist and hardliner
toward the United States, Japan, and Taiwan--and the only serving PLA general to have visited the
self-ruled island. He has traveled extensively overseas, including a stint in
the US as a visiting professor at Stanford University (so much for the silly
notion that cultural and educational exchange programs automatically foster
warm feelings toward the host nation).
A son-in-law of the late Chinese
president Li Xiannian, Liu is a so-called princeling--meaning, a privileged
offspring of a high Communist Party official--who has also been linked to the
Shanghai clique led by China's unpopular former president, Jiang Zemin.
Liu's wide-ranging views include
the idea that the West is engaged in a losing civilizational clash with rising,
radical Islam and that the world of military strategy has forever been changed
by the US invasion of Iraq. Like other PLA theoreticians, he advocates
"unrestricted warfare"--use of a variety of methods to isolate,
weaken and ultimately defeat the enemy--and "winning without
fighting" whenever possible, i.e. making maximum use of deception and
diplomacy in the face of a technologically superior enemy, such as the "US
hegemon." Liu also likes to talk in terms of the "Maoization" of
the military, though it is not always clear what he means by this.
Liu deserves much of the credit
for energy-starved China's warm relations with oil-rich Iran and for an
agreement signed last month between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Egyptian Prime
Minister Ahmed Nazef. The accord aims to deepen strategic and cooperative
relations between Beijing and Cairo: Chinese state-owned enterprises will
increase investment in Egyptian energy, textiles and electronics industries,
while Egypt will provide preferential treatment to Chinese enterprises.
As the second largest US foreign
aid recipient after Israel, Egypt gets $1.7 billion a year in economic and
military assistance from the US. But China is seeking to exploit a downturn in
US-Egyptian relations, partly stemming from US criticism of Egypt's human
rights record.
China is also attracted to
Egypt's increasing importance as an energy producer--its oil and gas industry
is booming--and the potential opportunity of edging out the US in the event of
a radical political change. Chinese intelligence officers have established
contacts with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood--the Islamist organization that
constituted the core of Al Qaeda--which seeks to topple the present secular
regime and replace it with a Sunni theocracy. At least one of the officers
dealing with the Brotherhood (which was responsible for the assassination of
Egypt's peace-making President Anwar Sadat) is also aiding Hamas--specifically,
its military wing.
China's military meddling is not
limited to terrorist groups. In an audacious disregard for US interests, the
PLA has recently initiated military contacts with a growing number of
Washington's allies in the region, including Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and
the United Arab Emirates.
Nor is Liu's strategic influence
limited to the Middle East and political Islam. In April, he accompanied
Chinese defense minister Cao Gangchuan during his four-day visit to Pyongyang.
North Korean state media (the only kind) reported that the PLA officers and their
Korean People's Army comrades discussed ways to "strengthen military
ties" and exchanged "valuable" opinions.
Analysts tell China Confidential
that they also discussed Iran. A delegation consisting of 10 Iranian missile
scientists and Iranian military and intelligence officers, we are told, were on
hand for North Korea's provocative July 4 (US time) missile tests. Japanese
sources say the Iranians stopped in Beijing on their way to the secretive
Stalinist state.
North Korea, as China
Confidential reported yesterday, has supplied Iran with Chinese-made missiles,
technology and know-how, which Tehran has in turn transferred to its terrorist
Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. It would not be surprising if some of the Iranians
who were present for the North Korean tests have also participated in
Hezbollah's missile attacks against northern Israel.