Senator Mark Kirk is pushing for the U.S. to engage in deeper strategic cooperation with China on drugs, terrorism, and Afghanistan. Speaking yesterday at the Foreign Policy Initiative’s annual conference at the Newseum, the Illinois Republican argued that the U.S. should build a supply line to Afghanistan through Urumqi, Xinjiang, the area known to its Uyghur and other Muslim inhabitants as East Turkistan.
Kirk’s desire to route a supply network through territory he claims has a “rising Uyghur terrorist problem” is puzzling. More disturbing is that Kirk bases his assessment of the terrorist threat on Chinese Communist propaganda:
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