The first section lists the 29 groups that currently are designated by the Secretary of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Stated goal is to restore the biblical state of Israel.
The JEM's leader, Masood Azhar, was released from Indian imprisonment in December 1999 in exchange for 155 hijacked Indian Airlines hostages in Afghanistan.
Beginning in the 1950s, scholars regarded the new strong state led by the CCP as an imposer of modernization and viewed Chinese society, which was predominantly agricultural and rural, as the object to be modernized.
The gap between state and society, which had been a highly critical problem among the Chinese and scholars in China field since the late Qing, does not matter from the state-centered perspectives of Yang and Bodde because the state seemed to successfully penetrate into society.
The framework that the state initiates change and society is susceptible to it tends to conclude that revolutionary rapid change is possible, whether or not an individual scholar has a positive attitude toward Chinese Communists.