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"China faces an enduring medium to low-level threat from terror and extremism and that threat increased after the riots," Gunaratna said in a telephone interview. The relatively unsophisticated nature of such operations reflects the immense pressure militants face from the powerful, well-funded security forces. Unlike across the border in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Uighur militants find it extremely difficult to communicate and organize effectively and have no apparent access to firearms and military-grade explosives. Overseas Uighur activist Dilxat Raxit said Beijing had made "unilateral accusations" and its lack of transparency raises questions about the investigation and purported evidence. The Rev. Marcus Ramsey, director of the Macau Interfaith Network that collaborated with other missionary groups to help the Uighurs escape to Cambodia, also said greater transparency was needed to give the accusations credibility. Liu Shanying, a security analyst at the official Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, dismissed such complaints and called the gang's defeat a "major breakthrough in counter-terrorism."
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