China adopted the War on Terror to justify crushing the Uyghurs

Evidence

Five weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush landed in Beijing. The global War on Terror was still in its infancy, but the American president was keen on encouraging its rapid development in China, a superpower rising to challenge unchecked American global hegemony. … Despite there being no proven Al-Qaeda presence throughout the Chinese mainland in 2001, President Jiang nodded. However, his expressions of approval and commitment to support America’s War on Terror masked a different objective, and a dramatically distinct target. The War on Terror would be the perfectly timed guise, an ideological Trojan horse, cloaking a longstanding objective in Beijing to obliterate the Uyghur and their way of life. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 598

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s guiding question about states importing Islamophobic frameworks from one another; links to Iftikhar’s global synthesis view.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that China had ‘no proven Al-Qaeda presence’ yet adopted US counterterror framing to serve anti-Uyghur aims reworks the War on Terror into a globally circulating ideological license states can transpose onto domestic targets.
• SEED: An essay tracing how the post-9/11 counterterror doctrine was deliberately exported to hostile hegemonic rivals and then re-purposed against domestic minorities.