China faced no genuine terror threat before adopting the War on Terror framework

Evidence

Al-Qaeda did not materially concern Jiang, and China’s national security was not threatened by it or any other transnational terror network. There was no imminent foreign “Islamist” threat on Chinese soil, only an indigenous Muslim population in the northwest who made that land their home long before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 601