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This brief discusses the Turkish backed Chinese Uyghur terrorist group the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), which is part of the "Army of Conquest" coalition of numerous Syrian Islamist rebel factions fighting the al-Assad government. The author explains that as TIP continues to grow in power and size, recently accessing MIG fighter jets and advanced weaponry from a captured Syrian airbase and settling Uyghur populations in villages that expelled local Syrian residents, the group now poses a threat to what the Chinese government describes as its country's core interests. She then explains that because TIP threatens these core interests China could intervene in Syria militarily and that if this intervention was requested by the Assad regime it would be permissible under international law.