Muslim-majority governments have sided with China against Uyghurs for economic reasons

Evidence

Muslim governments had turned their backs on Muslima and the Uyghur Muslim struggle, with many even siding with China on account of economic interests or realpolitik. This conference sought to turn the tide, or at minimum, to foster support among leaders of Muslim societies around the world who could help, we hoped, turn the tide. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1218

Muslim governments had turned their backs on Muslima and the Uyghur Muslim struggle, with many even siding with China on account of economic interests or realpolitik. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1218

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the global-Islamophobia thesis: the reader’s global-synthesis view must account for Muslim states’ realpolitik alignment with China against a fellow Muslim community.
• QUESTION: Which specific Muslim governments sided with China over Xinjiang, and what economic or strategic calculus drove each?
• ADDENDUM: Extends the ‘Islamophobia as coordinated global condition’ thesis onto China, showing a Muslim-majority-state complicity dimension not covered in the three listed articles but directly relevant to the book’s global-synthesis arc.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1218