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Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/11 A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies/ Dr Akram Hicazisystem. In this way it hopes to confront any public protest. Even though theseprotests have never been classified as anything more than “security incidents”until now, the penalties for these incidents can include execution. Let’s continue.This can be called running away to the future instead of facing the truth.A. At an international levelThe Chinese authorities used the terms “separatism and separatists” and“extremism and extremists” against Uyghur people before September 11. However,after the events of September 11, China perceived that here was “opportunity notto be missed”. And it started to use the terms “terrorism and terrorist” whendescribing the Uyghur people. Thus an exploitation of security issues began atboth local and national levels. China announced that it was joining the “Struggleagainst international terrorism” with America a few days after September 11. Andretrospectively, they described public protests and some incidents that occurredin Turkistan in the 1990s as terrorist activities. In this context, the foreign affairdepartment spokesman Sun Yuxi said the following on 18.10.2001: “Terroristactivities carried out by activists from Eastern Turkistan within China’s territorydo not threaten only the security and stability of China, but also of the entireregion.” Accordingly, China has declared that “it will join the internationalcommunity in their struggle against terrorism, which is also present in EasternTurkistan”. What has China gained by joining this campaign?The essential objective of the Shanghai Five platform, formed by Russia,China, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan and Tajikistan in 26.04.1996, includingUzbekistan in 15.06. 2001, was to solve border disputes and provide unity inactivities that required trust in the military arena. All aimed to decrease tensionalong the border regions as a beginning to signing joint agreements. Therefore, thisplatform was not initially established as an international regional organization; anysuch organization would have to have a contract, with pre-determined principleswithin that contract and rules that regulate operations, as well as requirementsfor membership. 32 However, in later meetings, this platform became essentiallytransformed into an organization that speaks in the name of Chinese policy. Asmembers started to use the same notions in their statements or joint declarations,this became more and more clear.The following expressions can be seen in one of the twelve clauses of the335