Bush’s war frame handed Beijing the pretext for a final Uyghur crackdown.

Evidence

Thus, the War on Terror that Bush peddled in Beijing created the ideal domestic opportunity to crush, once and for all, the Uyghurs and their precarious quest for self-determination. “Beijing saw an opportunity early [after 9/11]. Millions of Uyghurs and other non-Han Chinese groups in its northwestern region of Xinjiang had been asking for greater autonomy for decades, with scores joining violent separatist movement and militias.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 603

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• The War on Terror gave China pretext to crush Uyghur self-determination (similarity 0.95)
• China adopted the War on Terror to justify crushing the Uyghurs (similarity 0.87)
• China exploited the War on Terror as cover to crush the Uyghurs. (similarity 0.87)
• Faith alone sufficed to brand Uyghurs as terrorists without evidence (similarity 0.86)
• The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown (similarity 0.85)
• Washington reluctantly designated China’s Uyghur separatists as a terrorist group at Beijing’s urging (similarity 0.85)
• Washington declared an insignificant Uyghur movement terroristic under Chinese pressure. (similarity 0.84)
• China imported the American War on Terror framing to justify genocide against Uyghurs. (similarity 0.83)
• China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs (similarity 0.83)
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs (similarity 0.83)
• China targets Uyghur Islam to erase their land claims for Belt and Road. (similarity 0.82)
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s surveillance crackdown on Uyghurs. (similarity 0.81)
• Associating a Muslim population with terrorism required no evidence of ties (similarity 0.81)
• US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China (similarity 0.81)
• China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity (similarity 0.80)