According to Vaughan Winterbottom , although the Turkistan Islamic Party distributes propaganda videos and its Arabic '' Islamic Turkistan '' magazine ( documented by Jihadology.net and the Jamestown Foundation ) the Chinese government apparently denied the party 's existence ; China claimed that there was no terrorist connection to its 2008 bus bombings as the TIP claimed responsibility for the attacks . In 2007 , police raided a suspected TIP terrorist training camp . The following year , an attempted suicide bombing on a China Southern Airlines flight was thwarted and the Kashgar attack resulted in the death of sixteen police officers four days before the beginning of the Beijing Olympics
Kashgar attack
2008 Kashgar attack
Xinjiang conflict