Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror | South China Morning Post

Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror | South China Morning Post: In 2002, the US and the UN both declared a Uygur militant group a terrorist organisation. The US then considered China a partner in the war on terror. When the Trump administration delisted the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, it allowed the West to frame China’s anti-terror measures as ethnic persecution.