China weaponizes fear through spying networks that enlist children against parents
Evidence
This fear is a weapon that the Chinese government has wielded to deter and intimidate Uyghurs from exercising their faith, enforced by way of a ubiquitous police presence in Uyghur Muslim communities, by tapping neighbors, classmates, and colleagues of targeted subjects as informants and spies, and perhaps most nefariously, by recruiting Uyghur children to monitor and implicate their own parents as “terrorists.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 624
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- China weaponizes Uyghur children as informants against their own parents (similarity 0.87)
- China recruits Uyghur children to spy on their own parents (similarity 0.87)
- Fear of internment drives Uyghur out-migration and is itself a state weapon (similarity 0.82)
- China exploited the War on Terror as cover to crush the Uyghurs. (similarity 0.81)
- The War on Terror gave China pretext to crush Uyghur self-determination (similarity 0.81)
- China surveils mosques, imams, and overseas family contacts in Xinjiang (similarity 0.80)
- Faith alone sufficed to brand Uyghurs as terrorists without evidence (similarity 0.80)
- The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown (similarity 0.79)
- China adopted the War on Terror to justify crushing the Uyghurs (similarity 0.79)
- Bush’s war frame handed Beijing the pretext for a final Uyghur crackdown. (similarity 0.79)
- China imported the American War on Terror framing to justify genocide against Uyghurs. (similarity 0.78)
- China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs (similarity 0.78)
- China adopted the War on Terror’s civilizational discourse to justify domestic repression (similarity 0.78)
- China faced no genuine terror threat before adopting the War on Terror framework (similarity 0.78)