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6 days ago
- Politics
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Resisting Chinese colonialism: East Turkistan's struggle to restore its independence
China's occupation of East Turkistan has been ongoing for seventy-five years, but the resistance of the East Turkistani people—deeply rooted in centuries of anti-colonial struggle—remains undeterred read more The People's Republic of China (PRC) has used disinformation, coercion, and brutal force to maintain its colonial occupation over East Turkistan. While Beijing falsely claims to combat terrorism, it has in fact waged a campaign of state terror and genocide, aiming to erase the East Turkistani nation. Since the late 1990s, the Chinese government has deliberately conflated East Turkistan's legitimate independence movement with extremism and terrorism. The so-called 'East Turkistan Islamic Movement' (ETIM), widely cited by China, doesn't exist—it is a fabricated label used to demonize and discredit the East Turkistan independence movement. Proxy groups like the 'Turkistan Islamic Party' (TIP), whose actions and rhetoric are unrelated to East Turkistan's independence struggle, have been instrumental in this disinformation strategy. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD East Turkistan is not a 'restive region' or an 'ethnic minority area' of China; it is an occupied country. The Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other native Turkic peoples have never accepted Chinese rule and have continually resisted it. In 1759 the Manchu-led Qing Empire occupied East Turkistan and transformed it into a military colony. The people of East Turkistan responded with over 42 uprisings. In 1864, they restored East Turkistan's independence and established the State of Yette Sheher, which endured until another Manchu invasion in 1876. After subjugating the independent Turkic state, the Qing annexed East Turkistan in 1884 and renamed it ' Xinjiang,' meaning 'new territory'—a colonial designation. In the early 20th century, anti-colonial resistance in East Turkistan intensified, leading to the emergence of the modern East Turkistan independence movement. This movement declared the First East Turkistan Republic in 1933, and the Second East Turkistan Republic in 1944. However, in the late summer of 1949, over 30 senior political and military leaders of the East Turkistan Republic were assassinated by the Soviet Union. This political decapitation critically weakened East Turkistan's leadership at a critical moment. On October 12, 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) invaded East Turkistan, and by December 22, 1949, with Soviet support, overthrew the independent East Turkistan Republic. Beijing calls this a 'peaceful liberation,' when in fact it was a military occupation met with armed resistance. From 1949 to 1954, more than 150,000 East Turkistanis were killed resisting the Chinese communist occupation. In 1955, East Turkistan was designated as the 'Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)'—a deceptive term meant to obscure Chinese colonial rule. For decades, China has carried out forced assimilation, executions, mass incarcerations, religious repression, cultural destruction, and demographic engineering via Chinese colonial settlement. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD From the 1950s through the 1990s, East Turkistan witnessed continued uprisings and mass mobilizations. These were met with violent crackdowns and executions. Despite repression, the desire for independence persisted. In March 1996, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politburo Standing Committee issued Document No. 7, a top-secret directive on crush East Turkistan's independence movement. It detailed instructions to infiltrate exile organizations, co-opt foreign governments, and shape international perception through propaganda. That same year, 'XUAR' Chairman Abdulahat Abdurishit made Beijing's position clear: 'All methods are acceptable to fight separatism—penetration, propaganda, killing.' The CCP didn't wait for a credible threat, it launched the ' Strike Hard Campaign' in April 1996. While tens of thousands of Uyghurs were arrested and imprisoned, Hasan Mahsum—long suspected by Uyghurs of being a CCP asset—was briefly detained and then released. He then traveled from Urumchi to Beijing, and later founded the so-called 'East Turkistan Islamic Party' (ETIP) in China's all-weather ally Pakistan in September 1997. ETIP's rhetoric emphasized jihad against 'global infidels' and demonized the national independence struggle as 'un-Islamic.' This undermined the East Turkistan independence movement—then led by the Kazakhstan-based United Revolutionary Front of East Turkistan—and created a proxy actor for Beijing to portray East Turkistani resistance as global jihadist terrorism. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD In 1999, as the Shanghai Five Summit convened, East Turkistani leaders in Kazakhstan unequivocally declared: 'The struggle of the Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan has nothing to do with Islamic fundamentalism or extremism, that struggle can be defined as one for national liberation.' By 2001, China was preparing to launch the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO ) . That same year, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and ETIP were folded into the so-called Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), which emerged with slogans to target 'all global infidels' and establish an 'Islamic caliphate.' TIP's alliance with, and presence alongside, terrorist groups in Afghanistan and later Syria allowed Beijing to promote a manufactured terrorist threat to justify its ongoing campaign of genocide. To solidify this narrative, the CCP invented the term 'East Turkistan Islamic Movement' (ETIM) just months after 9/11. No Uyghur group used this name. It was created to conflate the broader East Turkistan independence movement with Islamic terrorism. While the U.S. initially designated ETIM to appease Beijing, the designation was lifted in 2020 after a review found no credible evidence such a group existed. The State Department clarified that TIP is a distinct entity and that Beijing's conflation of the two was factually inaccurate. In exile, the legitimate independence movement continued. In 2004, the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) was established in Washington, D.C., to counter Chinese repression and disinformation. Since its founding, the ETGE has spearheaded East Turkistan's independence movement, calling for international recognition of East Turkistan as an occupied country and support for its right to external self-determination and independence. Despite continued efforts by China to brand all East Turkistani activism as terrorism, the global community is beginning to acknowledge the reality. The ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples—recognized by the United States, several parliaments, and legal experts worldwide—is not a byproduct of state security policy. It is a deliberate campaign of ethnic and cultural eradication. Since 2014, China's so-called 'People's War' has led to the internment of millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz in concentration camps and prisons. Hundreds of thousands of East Turkistani women have been subjected to forced sterilizations and abortions. Over 20 million Uyghur children have been separated from families and placed in state-run boarding schools. East Turkistan has become a massive slave labour zone, producing goods from cotton to solar panels. Evidence presented to the U.S. Congress highlights that 25,000 to 50,000 Uyghurs are killed annually for organ harvesting. China's global influence—fuelled by the Belt and Road Initiative and strategic investments—has helped shield it from meaningful accountability. Many governments avoid criticizing Beijing due to economic dependence, while others actively cooperate with China to surveil and suppress East Turkistani diaspora activism. From the uprisings against the Manchu Empire to the founding of the East Turkistan Republics in 1933 and 1944, and to the modern-day political resistance of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, the people of East Turkistan have never surrendered their demand for the recovery of their independence. This is not a movement of extremism, religious fanaticism, or terrorism. It is a lawful and just struggle for national liberation and decolonisation, fully grounded in international law. The international community must recognize that East Turkistan's struggle is not an internal matter of China, but a fundamental issue of illegal occupation, genocide, and the right to national self-determination. Just as the world has supported the sovereignty of Ukraine and the decolonisation of former colonies, it must stand with the people of East Turkistan in their pursuit of freedom and independence. Restoring East Turkistan's independence is not just a matter of justice—it is essential for the survival and dignity of the Uyghurs and all Turkic peoples. The global community must affirm East Turkistan's right to external self-determination under international law. The author is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security for the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile and the leader of the East Turkistan National Movement. His X handle is @SalihHudayar. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Firstpost.
Express Tribune
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Ties upgrade with Kabul after due diligence: Dar
Listen to article Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday said Pakistan would upgrade ties with the Afghan Taliban government after due diligence and consultations with all stakeholders. "All stakeholders would be taken on board. We will do due diligence and discuss all pros and cons," Dar told reporters when asked about China's announcement about Pakistan and Afghanistan's move to upgrade their diplomatic ties. The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said Pakistan and Afghanistan expressed their willingness to upgrade their ties and agreed in principle to exchange Ambassadors. The statement was issued after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted Foreign Minister Dar and Afghan Interim Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Beijing in an informal meeting. The trilateral meeting was not planned earlier as it was believed to have been arranged at the last moment in view of the changing geopolitical scenario. A Pakistani official said the informal trilateral meeting was meant to deliver a clear message to India, which was trying to reach out to the Taliban government in order to advance its geostrategic interests. Dar told reporters that Pakistan, China and Afghanistan reached an agreement to collectively fight terrorism. He said during the three-way talks it was agreed to "collectively eliminate terrorism" from their soils, including groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), and the Majeed Brigade. "Terrorism will not be allowed to stay in these countries. Obviously, it will take time," Dar added. When asked about the use of Afghan soil, the foreign minister made it clear that any attack that was supervised by the interim government was not acceptable. However, he said there was a possibility that groups might be working without the knowledge of the Afghan government. He said his recent visit to Kabul was productive, adding that the Afghan government had taken certain steps to rein in terrorists without providing specific details. Dar did not rule out the possibility of the upgrade in ties with Kabul but added that the Afghan government will have to ensure that its soil was not used by terrorist groups. "We cannot change our neighbours. In China, discussions were held on diplomatic ties, trade, and other matters. We made it clear that the Afghan soil must not be used for terrorism against Pakistan," he said. "Afghan refugees are being brought in under a single-document policy. Afghan refugees will be given a one-year multiple-entry visa to Pakistan, with a fee of $100," he added Dar termed his visit to China "extremely successful" saying China expressed support for Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity. "It was a special visit to China at the invitation of my Chinese counterpart. On Tuesday, important meetings were held with Chinese delegations. On Wednesday, I participated in the trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan. During the trilateral meeting, discussions were held on Afghan refugees, regional developments, and trade. The agreements made during the April 19 visit to Kabul have already been implemented in Pakistan." "Discussions were held on launching the CPEC Phase II with China. China is ready to begin CPEC-II with this government," he stated. He added that Beijing agreed to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, suggesting that a proposed highway connecting Peshawar with Kabul and a trans-Afghan railway project linking Central and South Asia could also be developed under the next stage of the CPEC, which is a multibillion-dollar extension of China's global Belt and Road Initiative.
Martechvibe
06-03-2025
- Business
- Martechvibe
Akeneo Brings the Voice of the Customer to Product Records
The ability to leverage AI to bring the voice of the customer to the product record paves the way for contextual product discovery and purchase. Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) company and provider of Product Information Management (PIM) solutions, announced new capabilities in its latest release. As AI disrupts the buying experience, businesses that have not yet invested in a central source of truth for product information to seamlessly manage the end-to-end supply chain of product information will not be ready to respond. Notably new in the Akeneo Product Cloud solution is the ability to leverage AI to bring the voice of the customer to the product record, paving the way for contextual product discovery and purchase. Akeneo helps businesses to centralise, enrich, activate, and optimise each product's unique story. In its Spring Release 2025, Akeneo has delivered powerful new functionality to help at each phase of this product storytelling process. Key innovations added to Akeneo Product Cloud include: Centralise Regulatory Information & Enhance Data Governance Dynamic Attribute Dependencies: Akeneo introduces dynamic attribute dependencies that leverage conditional logic to ensure the most relevant attributes and values are included in the product record. This is immensely important to any business that needs to decrease risks associated with expensive regulatory fines by ensuring that product data meets strict legal standards and industry requirements, such as ETIM and Digital Product Passports. Enrich Product Records with Specific Gen-AI Prompting High-granularity Gen AI prompts: Akeneo continues expanding its native AI capabilities with support for more granular custom prompts that increase translation accuracy and content specificity by enabling users to provide specific instructions for how each product attribute should be handled – allowing the AI agent to focus on certain terms, ignore select words, or handle HTML tags more effectively. ALSO READ: How Digital Transformation Fails Activate Everywhere Along the Customer Journey Akeneo App for SAP Commerce: This flexible app allows integrators to configure and transform the data quickly and easily to meet complex commerce needs, ultimately reducing the total cost of ownership of SAP Commerce by leveraging the SAP Integration Suite. AI Image Transformation & Akeneo Content Delivery Network (CDN): Automatically format assets to meet the needs of any channel and then leverage Akeneo's new CDN to deliver those tailored product assets to market directly from Akeneo Product Cloud, reducing image load times and improving website reliability and security. New Syndication Channels: Increase corporate data governance by ensuring a single source of truth for product records by syndicating directly from Akeneo Product Cloud to over 500 destinations, including new additions of Google Shopping, eBay, Walmart, Home Depot, and Best Buy. Optimise Product Performance by Leveraging Customer Insights PX Insights: PX Insights turns customer intent, behavior, and sentiment into actionable insights by identifying opportunities to curate product information that more closely aligns with the way buyers think about and use products, providing the ability to execute smarter merchandising strategies that grow sales and reduce returns. Akeneo now natively stores, manages, analyses, and shares customer insights such as search and discovery behaviors, sentiment analysis, and product reviews. ALSO READ: Level AI Launches Agent Screen Recording For Contact Centres 'Surfacing review data inside Akeneo is game-changing for Leatherman Tool Group,' said Carl Ogden, Software Development Manager, Leatherman Tool Group. 'Now, every time a product manager logs into the PIM they can see real-time review data, alongside product information, along with AI-generated recommendations on how to improve the product description or metadata or categorisation of the product. PX Insights eliminates the data and team silos, allowing us to focus on refining product content based on market insights, instead of just 'inside out' product positioning. We now have a dynamic, customer-informed product record that is future-proof for tomorrow's AI-powered searches.' These capabilities reinforce Akeneo's commitment to creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere. ALSO READ: How Digital Transformation Fails The Martechvibe team works with a staff of in-house writers and industry experts. View More AkeneoProduct RecordsVoice of the Customer Blue Prism is a global software provider, offering ROM 2, an intelligent automation implementation methodology that empowers teams to scale their digital workflow. One of its use cases is sales and marketing solutions, which is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms. VISIT WEBSITE Pega is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform that comes with workforce analytics features. It offers a wide variety of tools such as Pega Email Bot to automate repetitive tasks with personalised customer replies at scale. 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Express Tribune
10-02-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Taliban's shadow diplomacy
Since reclaiming power in August 2021, the Taliban have begun a nuanced diplomatic journey, engaging with neighbouring powers such as China, Russia and Iran. Despite international isolation over human rights and terrorism concerns, the Taliban have leveraged Afghanistan's strategic position and resources to further relationships centred on economic collaboration, border security and counterterrorism efforts. However, the sustainability of these alliances remains uncertain, given the Taliban's governance challenges and unpredictable policies. The term 'shadow diplomacy' aptly captures the Taliban's approach - operating outside traditional norms, avoiding formal recognition, and relying on backchannel negotiations. Unlike internationally accepted governments, the Taliban engage in transactional diplomacy where geopolitical interests override legitimacy concerns. The Taliban established diplomatic relations with China, Russia and Iran because these countries do not share Western diplomatic protocols, enabling them to operate without formal international recognition. The Taliban have made mineral resources worth over $1 trillion in Afghanistan the core aspect of their diplomatic efforts. They formed a business alliance with Russian, Iranian and Pakistani corporations to develop their mining sector and infrastructure, and generate power in 2023. China stands out as a leading party interested in extracting resources. But it demonstrates caution because the volatile situation creates risks for its financial commitments. The FMs from China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran gathered in September 2024 to discuss regional security matters after requesting specific evidence from the Taliban about their actions against terrorist groups including ISKP and ETIM, along with the establishment of an inclusive government. The meaningful cooperation for countering terrorism remains hindered by the internal disputes combined with strict ideological positions held by the group. Moreover, the Taliban's continued violations of human rights - including curbs related to women - have slowed down international recognition efforts. Additionally, security incidents involving foreign nationals have raised concerns. While the Taliban seek foreign investments, their ability to provide a stable environment remains doubtful. Russia has expanded its intelligence and security cooperation with the Taliban, aiming to counter ISKP's expansion into Central Asia. However, Moscow's broader geopolitical ambitions and its rivalry with the West may complicate its long-term approach to Afghanistan. The Taliban maintain a strategic diplomatic stance by pursuing Chinese economic support while seeking Russian security cooperation and preserving Iranian relations because of historical and ideological links. These nations grant their assistance to the Taliban but without any guarantee of complete backing. The Taliban face an insecure position because each nation approaches Afghanistan only in its own interest. The Chinese government wants stability and economic benefit from the Taliban while they watch the Taliban struggle to maintain consistency. Russia evaluates Afghanistan as a counterterrorism threat and as part of its confrontation with Western powers yet it remains unclear if it will sustain its strategic backing. The security partnership exists between Iran and Afghanistan while trade relations maintain due to their different religious beliefs. The Taliban's shadow diplomacy is an attempt to sustain their rule despite global rejection. By avoiding Western diplomatic norms and focusing on transactional relations with regional powers, they have created an alternative strategy to gain economic and security guarantees. But the question remains: Can the Taliban carry these fragile partnerships? Or will internal and external pressures clear up their diplomatic progress? Afghanistan faces a crucial decision point because its leaders must lead regional diplomacy efforts while solving fundamental governance and security issues to determine its future direction. Failure of the Taliban to deliver on their commitments would lead Afghanistan to another period of diplomatic isolation and uncertainty regarding its future direction.
