If Afghanistan were to become a safe haven for the ETIM, it would constitute a major geostrategic concern from Beijing's perspective.
Chinese officials have been quick to blame ETIM for a series of attacks in Xinjiang.
But a few months later, the American listing blamed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, known as ETIM, for all of the supposed acts of terrorism.
"A leader of ETIM once said that the Beijing Olympics are their last chance for a big terror attack, and that they must do it even though they are obviously an egg pitted against a stone".
Several outside scholars have said that the Chinese government has failed to substantiate the existence of ETIM, and that it is inflating the group's reach to justify tightening policies against Uighurs in Xinjiang.
The scope of ETIM's activities is not clear.
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Chinese officials do say that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, was responsible for earlier episodes of violence, in particular a 2008 attack on paramilitary troops in the oasis town of Kashgar that resulted in the deaths of 17 officers.
Contrary to that, classification systems like ETIM [7] for electric devices or the industry-independent classifications eCl@ss [8] and PROLIST [9] enable description, categorization, and comparability of devices for catalogues and biddings, but do not cover commissioning, testing, and interoperability evaluation.
According to the US State Department's 2011 country terror report, ETIM claimed responsibility for an attack that year on a police station in Xinjiang's Hotan that killed four people, and a series of bomb and knife attacks that killed at least 12 in Kashgar.
