>>161225497>China Outraged After Pompeo Removes Terrorist Label From Group Dubbed 'Chinese ISIS'>China expressed outrage and frustration Friday after the US officially delisted the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as an official terror organization. >The group is a hardline Islamist group rooted in Muslim Uighur-dominant Xinjiang province that has sent foreign fighters to Syria, where it's been observed cooperating with Syrian al-Qaeda and ISIS over the past years to try and oust Assad. It's also believed the ETIM still has a presence in Idlib. Its ultimate goal is to erect an Islamic state in Western China and Central Asia.The US removes the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement from the Terrorist Exclusion List:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/11/05/2020-24620/in-the-matter-of-the-designation-of-the-eastern-turkistan-islamic-movement-also-known-as-etim-as-ahttps://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/12/13/turkestan-islamic-party-desires-to-be-a-national-liberation-movement-after-us-de-blacklist/UN Security Council on ETIM:
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/entity/eastern-turkistan-islamic-movementThe Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is an organization which has used violence to further its aim of setting up an independent so-called “East Turkistan” within China. Since its establishment, ETIM has maintained close ties with the Taliban, Al-Qaida (QDe.004) and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (QDe.010). It was founded by Hasan Mahsum from Xinjiang, China, who was killed by Pakistani troops in October 2003. ETIM is currently led by Abdul Haq (QDi.268), who was also a member of Al-Qaida’s Shura Council as of 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_detainees_at_Guantanamo_Bay>Several of the detainees admitted receiving training on []], including Bahtiyar Mahnut, Yusef Abbas, and Abdul Hehim.[7] They described being trained by East Turkestan Islamic Movement 