Both Washington and Beijing exploited War on Terror rhetoric to justify policing China

Evidence

Speculation about China becoming the next “Al Qaeda haven” continued in the years that followed, a ploy drummed up by Washington and Beijing to justify the extension of the American War on Terror into China. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1534

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s guiding question about states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another — echoes how France borrowed US counterterror framing.
• SEED: A possible essay angle: how the US War on Terror became an exportable playbook that autocracies like China weaponized against their own minority populations.
• DEEPTHINKING: The reciprocal ‘ploy’ — Beijing adopting American rhetoric while Washington stokes China-as-haven fears — is a dense feedback loop of mutual legitimation worth sitting with.