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East Turkistan as a Cradle of Civilizations / Prof Alimcan InayetSilk Way. The structures that China tries to present as having been administrativeunits of the central Chinese administration in the past are nothing but securitystations they had erected along the Silk Way. After the Battle of Talas in 751,the Chinese left these lands for more than 1,000 years. 8 Therefore, the Chineseare in no way justified in the claim that East Turkistan has always been Chineseterritory.The name “Xinjiang” (New Border), given to East Turkistan by the Chineseand the demographic structure of the Chinese Han people in East Turkistan in1940s and 1950s refute Chinese claims that East Turkistan was “always Chineseterritory”.The Chinese (Han) Population in East Turkistan in 1941: 9Ethnic Groups Population ProportionUyghur 2,984,000 80.0%Kazakh 326,000 8.7%Kyrgyz 65,000 1.7%Dongan 92,000 2.5%Chinese (Han) 187,000 5.0%Mongol 76,000 2.0%Total 3,730,000 100%The Chinese (Han) population in the tables consists of the families of theChinese occupational army troops, not Chinese people who had settled in theregion.5. The assimilation policy of the Chinese administration against UyghurTurks5. 1. The era of the Manchu-Qing DynastyThe attack on China by land and sea carried out by Western states in the late19 th century -the final period of the Manchu-Qing dynasty- led the Chinese toestablish both territorial and marine defence lines; as a result, the East Turkistan277