Chinese paramilitary police patrol the Urumqi airport in Xinjiang on Aug. 4. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
Only now, after the Olympics have long since ended, are contradictory details coming out. According to witnesses, as reported by the International Herald Tribune, the actual incident involved a car crash and paramilitary officers playing the “terrorist” role—a situation eerily similar to a staged anti-terror raid in Urumqi earlier this year.
For the cadres, this couldn’t have come at a worse time. Candy in Great Britain, pork products in Japan, coffee in the United States, cereal in Hong Kong, all are the latest of imports and nations ensnared by Communist China’s melamine scandal. The cadres responded with nearly two dozen arrests, but reports of arrests and actual catching of guilty parties rarely go hand in hand where the CCP is concerned.
Of course, the Korean colony is doing its best to distract everyone, and there is the space walk to celebrate—now that it’s really happened, but these distractions are hardly making a dent with the avalanche of melamine outrages out there.
Even worse for the CCP, the traditional concerns of the democratic world about its internal practices (such as the treatment of dissidents) have now spread to its external actions, such as the aforementioned exports issue, the tightening grip on Africa, the Long Arm of CCP Lawlessness reaching into Western countries, and its overall military objectives.
Even with all of this, the cadres would normally feel confident in their ability to ride out the storm; after all, the world believes they’re battling al-Qaedists in East Turkestan. That’s why the International Herald Tribune story is so damaging.
As I’ve mentioned ad infinitum, Communist China’s ties to Islamic terrorism run long and deep. Whether it’s al Qaeda, Iran, Syria, Saddam Hussein, or the Taliban, if it’s a terrorist group or regime looking to strike America, it has a friend in the Chinese Communist Party. For the Communist regime, it’s the perfect win-win: it gets allies willing to strike against the U.S. in ways it could never do, and said allies—for their own reasons—are more than willing, even eager, to take all the credit for themselves, leaving the cadres apparently blameless.
This truth, if it were ever to become widely known, would start the countdown to the end of the Communist regime. Washington would want nothing to do with a Communist tyranny that considers Osama bin Laden a tool to be used against America.
Even European capitals which have a history of accommodation and appeasement would think twice about the Beijing regime.
So, the regime tries to distract the rest of the world with its phony war in East Turkestan in the hope that no one pays close attention to either its brutal occupation or the fact that the native Uighur population is just about the most pro-American group of Muslims on Earth.
All of that gets blurred by local acts of “terrorism.”
That is, until the acts are exposed as forgeries, like the Kashgar “attack” now appears to be exposed. Then the truth comes into view once more, and the truth is this: the Chinese Communist Party is not an enemy of radical Islamic terror; it is a benefactor of radical Islamic terror.
The Beijing regime does not stand with the democratic world; it stand against them. America is not a friend, customer, or even a rival to the CCP; America is the enemy of the CCP.
The free world can not afford to ignore this reality; for the War on Terror will not end in Tehran, Baghdad, or Kabul, but in Beijing. America and her allies will never be secure until China is free.
D.J. McGuire is cofounder of the China e-Lobby and the author of Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror.
