{"id":56641,"date":"2015-12-01T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=56641"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T09:17:30","slug":"can-beijing-sell-silk-road-as-a-marshall-plan-against-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2015\/12\/01\/can-beijing-sell-silk-road-as-a-marshall-plan-against-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Beijing Sell Silk Road as a Marshall Plan Against Terror?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix byline-wrap\">\n<div class=\"byline\"><strong>By\u00a0ANDREW BROWNE<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><time class=\"timestamp\">Dec. 1, 2015<\/time><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>China has long tried to get the West to acknowledge that the Muslim extremist violence that rages from North Africa through the Middle East and onward to Central Asia ultimately ends up on China\u2019s western doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>But its claims about cross-border terrorism have met a skeptical response: Many Western security analysts believe that attacks by Muslim Uighurs in China\u2019s Xinjiang region have more to do with anger against the Chinese government\u2019s religious and cultural repression than global <em>jihad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And there has indeed been little hard evidence of spillover into Xinjiang. In his book \u201cThe China-Pakistan Axis: Asia\u2019s New Geopolitics,\u201d the Central Asia specialist Andrew Smalldescribes how China has skillfully kept Islamic militants across the border at bay, in spite of its harsh treatment of its Muslim minority. China\u2019s pitch to them, he writes: \u201cDon\u2019t bother us and we won\u2019t bother you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as Islamic State and other groups that China has little familiarity with send fresh waves of instability along the overland arc of terror, that bargain is threatened. So is what China sees as essentially a Marshall plan to extend Chinese-style economic development to its troubled inland neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Read complete at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/can-beijing-sell-silk-road-as-a-marshall-plan-against-terror-1448949756?mod=e2fb\" target=\"_blank\">WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0ANDREW BROWNE Dec. 1, 2015 China has long tried to get the West to acknowledge that the Muslim extremist violence that rages from North Africa through the Middle East and onward to Central Asia ultimately ends up on China\u2019s western doorstep. 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