The Belt and Road Initiative’s trillion-dollar stakes explain Muslim states’ silence on Uighur persecution
Evidence
The Chinese government is currently undertaking what it calls the “Belt and Road Initiative”—a staggering one trillion dollar infrastructure project which will ultimately connect China to Africa and Europe. (Many have called it the most ambitious road-building and transportation modernization project in human history, in terms of sheer scale.) For this project to succeed, the roads, bridges, and railways under construction will all have to pass through the heart of Xinjiang province. Whether or not it is the true cause of the despicable actions being taken against the Uighurs, the enormous one trillion dollar project may explain why many Muslim-majority countries close to China have been so silent during this ethnic cleansing campaign against 1 million of their sisters and brothers. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 169
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to the world-order thesis the reader is synthesizing—capital flow silencing Muslim solidarity, parallel to Beydoun and Kumar’s analyses of state complicity.
- SEED: Angle: tracing how China’s Belt and Road has structurally divided the global Muslim ummah, with Saudi and Pakistani silence as the exhibit.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 169