Thread by @stealyoredbull

Some interesting and inconvenient context to the ‘Uyghur genocide’ narrative:

Continued. The CIA trained hundreds of Uyghurs in the 90s sending them to Afghanistan where they were radicalised and upon their return to Xinjiang used to engage in terrorism to destabilise China.

Here we have more proof of Uyghur terrorism as documented in the journal Iran and Caucasus no. 21 in 2017.

And this which states that not only does the East Turkestan Islamic Movement have ties to al-qaeda and the Taliban but that ETIM’s stated goal is an independent state in Xinjiang ruled by Islamic fundamentalists.

Most revealing; not only does the West consider ETIM a terrorist org, but the US even detained 22 Uyghurs at Guantanamo Bay. Upon release they were sent back to find asylum in other counties but were notably denied asylum in the US. Why? Pay attention to those last 2 sentences

How does this all tie together? Here’s a paper by one Graham Fuller—former CIA and the guy who wrote a study in 1985 that was instrumental behind the Iran-Contra Affair—discussing using the “Uyghur card” to pressure China and exploit Uyghurs to the West’s benefit.

Further, in a 2018 speech Lawrence Wilkerson—ex military and former Chief of Staff to SoS Colin Powell who helped prep Powell’s UN speech on WMDs in Iraq—admitted the US’s goal was to exploit Uyghurs to destabilise China.

Even the State Dept conceded it had no hard evidence.

So why go to all this trouble? It goes back to the beginning of this thread. The CIA believes the establishment of an independent East Turkestan would deprive China of natural resources (oil), making it less of a threat economically to the US, and then the US could use the oil.

P.S.

As someone reminded me; in 2020 the Trump administration removed the ETIM from the US terror list claiming it no longer exists. But remember, the CIA essentially helped create the ETIM. How convenient. dw.com/en/us-removes-…

In all, the effort to exploit muslims to destabilise China is a decades long project as evidence by this CIA document from the 1950s inquiring about evidence of China mistreating muslims. Note they concede they found none.