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Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/11 A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies/ Dr Akram Hicaziregion, rewarded with certain privileges. During the processes that followed theestablishment of the Communist government under the leadership of Mao Tsetungin 1949, with a decree issued in August 19, 1952 these migrations began,transforming the region into an autonomous region in name only. This bookdescribes Eastern Turkistan as the Xingjian Region or the Uyghur AutonomousRegion. Yet, after the annexation of the region by China, the forced immigrationin the late 19th century made no difference to the population structure of theregion. On the contrary, the total number of ethnic groups, made up of Chinese,Mongols and Manchurians during this period were no greater than 600,000. Thesame groups made up only 6% 5 of the population of the region, with more than90% consisting of Muslim Uyghur.2. Economic ventures and the logic of “No turning back”In contrast to the Soviet Union, under Communism, China tried to forma global economy that would be able to sustain the needs of the poorer classes,which formed the vast majority of the population. It can be said that China,which attained great success in the open market, was ready to accept a globaleconomy at a much earlier period. Immediately after the collapse of the SovietUnion, marking the end of the Cold War, China made it public that it was nowa part of the global economy with its “Capitalist Socialism” formula. Thanksto this formula, China has reclaimed Hong Kong from England in 1997, withthe condition that it would preserve the existing economic system for anotherfifty years. It transformed the Fujian canton into a region where European andAmerican corporations can invest and carried out some large investments in theUSA. Therefore, while China continues to remain a Communist state, with acontrolled economy, at the same time it has become a capitalist state involved inglobal competition in an open market economy. This also indicates that China isusing Communism as a conservative and strict system of government that shoresup its domination over hundreds of million people. That is, China does not seeCommunism as an ideological or economic system. As far as market competitionis concerned, this unique system, mentioned above, makes it possible for China todominate the global economy and world politics. 6Since the 1980’s and the death of the Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung, China hasadopted a policy of opening onto the world. After this, signs of the Chinese policy315