Check this out from Business Insider (read the whole story at their house)....
China's ruling Communist Party announced on Sunday the removal of the military chief of restive Xinjiang from the region's governing council, following a car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square blamed on Islamist militants from Xinjiang.Think about it.
The official Xinjiang Daily said in a brief front page report that Peng Yong had been sacked as a member of Xinjiang's Communist Party Standing Committee, and would be replaced by Liu Lei, an army veteran with more than a decade's experience in the region.
The newspaper gave no reason for the move, but the party frequently removes top officials following such incidents as it seeks to apportion blame.
The incident was especially embarrassing for the stability-obsessed party given the billions of dollars it spends every year on domestic security, not only in Xinjiang but across the country, and that the crash happened in the heart of Beijing.
Even China is dealing with radical Islam. The most violent religion on the planet is even terrorizing a communist police state.
If doing a partnership with the major powers of the planet to fight radical Islam isn't the missed opportunity of the century then I don't know what is.
Oh and spare me the nonsense that there is cooperation on the intelligence front. You want to make the Mullah's quake in their boots? Have a joint Russia, China, US, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, S. Korea, Germany, France operation hitting sites worldwide and announced publicly.
The developed and developing world share the same problem.
Instead of attacking it, we instead decided to make a bunch of platitudes about "the religion of peace" and crack down on our own citizens instead.
Historians will laugh at our incompetence.
