The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown
Evidence
See Khaled A. Beydoun, “Exporting Islamophobia in the Global ‘War on Terror,’ ” New York University Law Review 95 (2020): 81, 93–96, for an examination of how the American War on Terror facilitated the Chinese regime’s crackdown on the Uyghur under the banner of counterterror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1497
Categorization
- XREF: Directly evidences the state-learning dynamic the reader is hunting for: America exporting counterterror techniques China adopts. — connects to: The war on terror authorized a unilateral US break from global rules and institutions
- SEED: Article angle: how the US War on Terror provided diplomatic cover for China’s Xinjiang camps.