US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China

Evidence

Chapter 4 moves east from the Indian subcontinent to China and Myanmar, sites of horrific ethnic cleansing against two indigenous Muslim populations. I examine the American War on Terror’s facilitation of the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s disputed northwest territory, Xinjiang. In 2014, that mass persecution devolved into a full-scale elimination program encompassing mass detention, torture, and the criminalization of Islam through law and violence. I then delve into the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which like its Chinese counterpart is a campaign steered by the government to remove a people from land the state desperately covets. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75; China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs; The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs (+1 more)

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