The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics (62 page)

    
Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland
187

State Council (China)
82

State Department (United States)
125
,
153

Steinmeier, Frank-Walter
50

Stingers
see
FIM-92 Stingers

Strait of Malacca
12
,
103

strategic and economic dialogue (S&ED)
159

Strike Hard campaigns in Xinjiang
70
,
72
,
75
,
76

‘string of pearls’
181

Sudan
104
,
180
,
183

Suez Canal
105

Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
43

Sultani, Sardar Mohammad
139

Sun Changsheng
117
–
18
,
119

Sun Guoxiang
128

Sunni Islam
67

surface-to-air missiles
41

Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
88

Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
113
–
14
,
115
,
152

Switzerland
173

Syed, Anwar

    
China and Pakistan: Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale
185

Syria
117
,
179
,
186

T59 tanks
108

Tablighi Jamaat
79

‘Tacksman’ listening stations
38

Taiwan
20
,
21
,
32
,
40
,
41
,
48
,
68
,
131
,
150

Taj, Nadeem
114

Tajikistan
69
,
71
,
76
,
122
,
125
,
136

    
1992–1997
civil war
71
–
2
,
75
–
6

Takhar, Afghanistan
136

Taliban
x
,
xi
–
xii
,
xv
,
4
–
5
,
67
,
73
,
75
,
79
–
83
,
87
–
90
,
111
,
113
–
14
,
115
,
116
,
118
,
120
,
121
,
126
–
37
,
147
,
152
–
3
,
161
–
2
,
167
,
172
,
174
,
178
,
184

‘Talibanization’
116

Tang Jiaxuan
59
,
128

Tank, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
109

Tanzania
44
,
127

Taxila, Punjab
48
,
108

Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
167

Tehrek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) xv,
89
,
115
,
148
,
179

telecoms
108
,
109
,
113
,
129
,
132

Telegraph
,
The
117

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
21

Thailand
152

Thakot bridge
106

Thar coal project
98
,
174

Tian Shan, Xinjiang
37

Tiananmen Square, Beijing

    
1989
protests
48
,
149

    
2013
attack
176
–
7

Tibet
18
,
20
,
21
–
2
,
53
,
68
,
70
,
77
,
87

    
1959
uprising
21

    
2008
Lhasa riots
87

Tokyo, Japan
170

Tomahawk missiles
44
,
128

Tora Bora, Afghanistan
83

Tripoli, Libya
27
,
35

Tulip Revolution (Kyrgyzstan)
134

Turdi, Guazlinur
84

Turkey
12
,
69
,
75
,
76
,
80
,
142

Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)
68
,
84
–
6
,
177
;
see also
East Turkistan Islamic Movement

Turkistani, Abdul Haq
146

Turkistani, Abdul Shakoor
145
–
6

Turkmenistan
71
,
169

Turner, Stansfield
38

Twin Peaks Crisis
60
,
150

U Thant
10

UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)
64

UF6 (uranium hexaflouride)
32
,
34

Uighurs
xiv
,
2
,
4
,
67
,
68
–
76
,
80
–
91
,
110
,
128
–
9
,
134
,
137
,
145
–
8
,
176
–
7
,
179
,
183
,
186

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
68
–
9
,
112
,
119
,
127
,
165

United Kingdom
28
,
109
,
117
,
118
,
122
,
134

United Nations (UN)
10
,
11
,
12
,
15
,
20
,
24
,
34
,
47
,
60
,
61
,
127
,
128
,
130
,
132
,
154

    
Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee
61

    
Security Council
15
,
60
,
127
,
154

United States
x
,
2
,
3
,
20
,
28
,
35
–
9
,
41
,
42
,
43
,
44
–
5
,
47
,
49
,
55
,
82
,
96
,
100
,
103
,
107
,
109
,
114
,
118
,
120
–
1
,
123
–
6
,
127
,
130
–
43
,
145
–
63
,
170
,
180

    
1950–1953

    
Korean War
32

    
1955

    
Taiwan Strait Crisis
32

    
1959

    
United states-Pakistan bilateral security agreement
11
,
20

    
1962

    
Cuban Missile Crisis
22

    
Sino-Indian War
23

    
1965

    
Indo-Pakistani War
19

    
1971

    
Indo-Pakistani War
3
,
9
–
12
,
14

    
1979

    
establishment of diplomatic relations with China
33
,
37
–
9

    
1979–1989

    
Soviet War in Afghanistan
35
–
6
,
78
,
123
–
6

    
1981

    
military and economic assistance agreement with Pakistan
36

    
1990

    
sanctions imposed on Pakistan
149

    
1991

    
sanctions imposed on China
41

    
1992

    
agreement to sell F-16 warplanes to Taiwan
41
,
150

    
1998

    
United States-China Joint Statement On South Asia
56

    
East African embassy bombings
44
,
127

    
cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan
44
,
127

    
1999

    
Kargil War
58
–
9

    
2000

    
Bill Clinton makes state visit to India
55

    
USS
Cole
bombing
118

    
2001–2002

    
Twin Peaks Crisis
60
,
150

    
September
11
attacks
x
,
4
,
82
,
89
,
118
,
120
,
123
,
126
,
130
–
1
,
147
,
150

    
2001–2014

    
Afghanistan War
x
,
xii
,
4
–
5
,
73
,
83
,
89
,
109
,
118
,
120
,
130
–
43
,
151
–
2
,
157
–
62
,
163

    
2003–2011

    
Iraq War
150
,
162
,
163

    
2004

    
A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation scandal
27
–
9
,
35

    
2005

    
India-United States Civil Nuclear Agreement
xi
,
51
,
53
,
61
,
62
,
63
,
107

    
2008

    
NSG meeting in Vienna
49
–
52

    
presidential election
152

    
2009

    
Kerry-Lugar bill
159

    
Camp Chapman attack
156

    
2010

    
arms sale to Taiwan
152

    
drone strike in Baghdis province, Afghanistan
146

    
drone strike in Zor Babar Aidak, Waziristan
146

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Kabul
158

    
2011

    
Raymond Davis incident
156

    
assassination of Osama Bin Laden
16
,
44
,
155
–
7
,
176
,
184

    
NATO attack in Pakistan
160

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Istanbul
142
,
160

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn
142
,
160

    
2012

    
Abu Yahya al-Libi killed in North Waziristan drone strike
146

    
Uzbeks killed in North Waziristan drone strike
146

    
drone strikes in Shawal Valley, Waziristan
145

United States Information Library
19

URENCO
29
,
33

Urumqi, Xinjiang
34
,
74
,
84
,
87
,
128

Uzbekistan
71
,
75
,
76
,
91
,
110
,
119
,
133
,
140
–
1
,
146

    
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari
54
–
5

‘vice and virtue’ squads
ix
,
xii

Vienna, Austria
49
–
52

Vietnam,
Democratic Republic of
14

Vietnam, Socialist Republic of
96
Wahhabism
162

Wakhan corridor, Afghanistan
121
–
2
,
123

Wakhjir pass
121

Waldorf Astoria, New York
11

Walmart
94

Walters, Vernon
35

Wana, South Waziristan
90

Wang Dongxing
94

Wang Ende
110

Wang Jianzhou
108

Wang Jisi
163
–
4

    
‘Westward: China’s Rebalancing Geopolitical Strategy’
186
–
7

Wang Teng
110
–
11