China, Pakistan, and the 'Taliban syndrome'

Asian Survey

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 658-671

  Ehsan Ahrari, M ^a,b  

^a Armed Forces Staff College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISLAMISM; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; REGIONAL SECURITY; SECURITY THREAT;

AFGHANISTAN; CHINA; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0033789416     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2000.40.4.01p0092d     Document Type: Article

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2. "Police Battle Terrorists in China's Restive Northwest," Associated Press, August 29, 1998.
3. John Gittings, "Chinese 'Brutality' Used to Crush Ethnic Dissent," Guardian (London), April 21, 1999.
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6. De Angelis, "Muslims and Chinese Political Culture," pp. 156-160, passim.
7. The preceding discussion is extracted from Raphael Israeli, "A New Wave of Muslim Revivalism in China," Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 17:2 (October 1997), pp. 269-82.
8. Ibid.
9. John Pomfret, "Separatists Defy Chinese Crackdown: Persistent Islamic Movement May Have Help from Abroad," Washington Post, January 26, 2000.
10. Ibid.
11. David A. Lake and Donald Rothchild, "Spreading Fear: The Genesis of Transnational Ethnic Conflict," in The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict, eds. David A. Lake and Donald Rothchild (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 23-24.
12. Eijaz Haider, "Pakistan's Afghan Policy and Its Fallout," Central Asia Monitor, no. 5 (1998), pp. 1-6.
13. Basmachi means "bandit," a highly pejorative and contemptuous phrase given by the Soviet occupiers to the Muslim rebellion that erupted between the Russian revolution and the early 1930s.
14. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 277.
15. Pinar Akcali, "Islam as a 'Common Bond' in Central Asia: Islamic Renaissance Party and the Afghan Mujahideen," Central Asian Survey 17:2 (June 1998), pp. 276-84.
16. For a background of this increasingly important issue, see Ariel Cohen, U.S. Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Building a New 'Silk Road' to Economic Prosperity, Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, no. 1132, July 24, 1997, on the World Wide Web at [accessed June 30, 2000].
17. "Taliban and JUI to Form a Block of Islamic Countries," Deccan Herald, July 15, 1999.
18. James Pringle, "Muslims in China Pay Price of Peace," Times (London), June 4, 1999.
19. John Pomfret, "Shift Shows Sensitivity to Ethnic Tensions at Home," International Herald Tribune, May 8, 1999.
20. Ibid.