Washington reluctantly designated China’s Uyghur separatists as a terrorist group at Beijing’s urging

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity; China’s economic power shields its Uyghur genocide from international sanction; The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75 (+2 more)

Related

• China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity (similarity 0.93)
• US and China colluded to extend the War on Terror to China (similarity 0.91)
• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.91)
• China bulldozes Uyghur mosques to erase the architecture of Islamic life (similarity 0.90)
• China’s suppression of Uyghurs constitutes an active genocide. (similarity 0.90)
• China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs (similarity 0.85)
• The War on Terror gave China pretext to crush Uyghur self-determination (similarity 0.85)
• Washington declared an insignificant Uyghur movement terroristic under Chinese pressure. (similarity 0.84)
• American War on Terror framings directly empowered Indian designations of Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists (similarity 0.83)
• China exploited the War on Terror as cover to crush the Uyghurs. (similarity 0.82)
• China deploys counterterrorism law to suppress Uyghur identity (similarity 0.82)
• The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown (similarity 0.82)
• China imported the American War on Terror framing to justify genocide against Uyghurs. (similarity 0.82)
• China adopted the War on Terror to justify crushing the Uyghurs (similarity 0.82)
• China’s Xinjiang camps target all 15 million Muslims, not just religious leaders. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The American War on Terror facilitated China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims #corroborates (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 75
• The global War on Terror legitimized China’s Han supremacist crackdown on Uyghurs #corroborates (0.60)
• China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs #corroborates (0.60)