It’s what liberals think Xinjiang should be as an independent state

east turekstan islamic militants were funded by the west as a proxy force to fuck with the belt and road initiative. here’s footage of a US military official casually admitting this at the ron paul institute in, i want to say, 2018,. they carried out terrorist attacks in xinjiang. china tried to combat radicalization of ETIM extremists by employing, educating, and housing people so that they would be less likely to sympathize. these were called uyghur ethnic concentration camps by the west. it was easy to push this narrative because the housing is public housing in block apartments, and the education included anti-radicalization, and the jobs were sometimes outdoor agricultural work. muslim majority nations sent delegations to xinjiang and concluded there was no uyghur genocide. NATO countries continued to assert that there is a genocide of uyghurs in xinjiang and that the only reason muslim majority nations disagree is because they benefit from the belt and road initiative. the genocide narrative was cooked up by adrian zenz, an evangelical conservative guy who has written books about how God wants america to destroy china.