Washington declared an insignificant Uyghur movement terroristic under Chinese pressure.

Evidence

But 9/11 happened, creating the opening for a “final solution.” Miles Maochun Yu, a researcher at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, observed, “The Chinese government took advantage of the U.S.-led Global War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks and essentially steamrolled Washington into declaring the insignificantly weak East Turkistan Independence Movement as a terrorist group. For political expediency, Washington accepted the Chinese demand with great reluctance albeit urging Beijing for restraint and religious freedom in its crackdown on these ‘Uyghur terrorists’ seeking independence.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 602

Categorization

• SHARE: The scholar’s account of Washington being ‘steamrolled’ by Beijing into the designation is a sharp reversal of the usual power narrative worth sharing with someone interested in the War on Terror’s world-building.
• XREF: Direct state-to-state learning/transfer of Islamophobic technique — exactly the cross-national mechanism the reader is tracking.