- US government-funded media NPR as part of a multi-year campaign to portray Uyghur terrorists as “freedom fighters” has whitewashed their prominent role among the ranks of Al Qaeda in Syria throughout the US-backed proxy war spanning 2011-2024;
- The article seeks to prepare public perception for the use of US-sponsored terrorists to be deployed from Syria across Eurasia to attack Chinese investments, citizens, and perhaps even China itself;
- This is only the most recent chapter in the US’ use of terrorist organizations (designated as such by the US itself until delisting them to provide more direct support) to advance US geopolitical objectives worldwide and more specifically vis-a-vis China;
- The US is already amid a long-standing dirty war wages against China along its borders following several years in the early 2000s where US-backed extremism was targeting and killing people inside China itself;
Resources:
US-backed Terrorism in China
NPR - The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them (May 17, 2026):
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/g-s1-113270/uyghurs-china-syria-war-fighters-rebels-bashar-al-assad
USSD - Revoking the Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (2025):
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/revoking-the-foreign-terrorist-organization-designation-of-hayat-tahrir-al-sham
USSD - Rewards for Justice – Reward Offer for Information on al-Nusrah Front Leader Muhammad al-Jawlani (2017):
https://2017-2021.state.gov/rewards-for-justice-reward-offer-for-information-on-al-nusrah-front-leader-muhammad-al-jawlani/
NEO - Afghanistan: America’s Other Ongoing Proxy War (May 2026):
https://journal-neo.su/2026/05/11/afghanistan-americas-other-ongoing-proxy-war/
BBC - Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs? (2014):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26414014
LA Times - In China, rise of Salafism fosters suspicion and division among Muslims (2016):
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-saudi-arabia-20160201-story.html
NED - Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act Builds on Work of NED Grantees (2020): https://www.ned.org/uyghur-human-rights-policy-act-builds-on-work-of-ned-grantees/
World Uyghur Congress - About (accessed June 2026):
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/introducing-the-world-uyghur-congress/
US Created ISIS-Al Qaeda
The New Yorker - The Redirection (2007):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
NYT - U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
NYT - C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition (Jun. 2012)
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html
Washington Post - U.S.-backed Syria rebels routed by fighters linked to al-Qaeda (Nov. 2014):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-backed-syria-rebels-routed-by-fighters-linked-to-al-qaeda/2014/11/02/7a8b1351-8fb7-4f7e-a477-66ec0a0aaf34_story.html
US State Department - Revoking the Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (2025):
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/revoking-the-foreign-terrorist-organization-designation-of-hayat-tahrir-al-sham
US Delists Uyghur Terrorists Ahead More Open Support
DW - US removes China-condemned group from terror list (2020):
https://www.dw.com/en/us-removes-separatist-group-condemned-by-china-from-terror-list/a-55527586
US CENTCOM - U.S. Airstrikes Target Terrorist Networks in Northern Afghanistan (2018, archived):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180209023309/https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/1436093/us-airstrikes-target-terrorist-networks-in-northern-afghanistan/
US-Backed Terrorism Targeting China Elsewhere
National Interest - Free Baluchistan (2011, archived):
https://web.archive.org/web/20251126061402/https://nationalinterest.org/feature/free-baluchistan-4799
Irrawaddy - Myanmar Junta Abandons Chinese Pipeline Amid Resistance Attacks (May 2025):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-abandons-chinese-pipeline-amid-resistance-attacks.html
France 24 - Deadly car bombing in Pakistan targets hotel hosting Chinese ambassador (2021):
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210421-deadly-car-bombing-in-pakistan-targets-hotel-hosting-chinese-ambassador
US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
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