China exploited the War on Terror as cover to crush the Uyghurs.

Evidence

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…, 600

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ideological Trojan horse’ mechanism — America’s war frame co-opted by an ally for domestic ethnic cleansing — is the shared logic the reader is hunting across national cases.
• SEED: Angle: how the War on Terror script travels and gets repurposed for unrelated domestic targets in allied states.