20.04.2009 01:42

According to Chinese media news reports, recently, China and Kazakstan natural gas pipeline construction officially started. Actually this is China – central Asian pipeline that start from Turkmanstan , trough from Kazakstan, Uzbekstan , East Turkistan( Xinjiang) to central China. Pipe line is about13,000km long. in 30 years China would annually export 30biliion cubic meter natural gas from Turkmenistan if the pipe line is completed. This makes Russia worry as China not only actively look for other energy sources but also trying to put greater control in Central Asia. In 2006, China and Russia have signed for memorandum of natural gas supply from Russia to China, but because of price conflict, the energy deal has not been implemented. Russian media expressing the concern of oil market in China and further conflict between Russian Gazprom interest and China - the Central Asian gas pipeline. In fact, Russia should have more geo- political reason to worry. However, American presence in Central Asia put Russia in position that keeps good Sino – Russia relations despite the grown Chinese influence in Central Asia. Being more experienced with Chinese geo- political strategy, people of East Turkistan deeply worrying about central Asian energy cooperation with China and many of them concerning as: “if Central Asian countries divorced from Russia and cooperate with China, they would become second East Turkistan. China would try to intensify its demographic expansion as well through using economic cooperation.”

Only 4% Chinese population in East Turkistan when it was annexed by China in 1949, Chinese population increased to 48% and make Uyghur people disadvantaged minority in their own land today. Uyghurs also suffering with China’s systematic ethnic cleansing policy, land deprivation, forced relocation and total loss of rich natural resources. .