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How China Hijacked the War on Terror: How USA is responsible for providing legitimate pretext for ongoing crackdown on Uyghur’s

Abstract

 The single most important event that pushes back the agenda and struggle of independence of Xinjiang Uighur was 9/11. To punish terrorists the United States of America overlook by declaring a terrorist status to an organization working for the independence of XUAR. The Chinese authorities deceived and manipulated America by compelling it to label Uyghur’s movement as terrorist and extremist movement. Due to American overconfidence and negligence, china in a broad sense very much hijacked the war on terror and used it for their own purposes to achieve certain objectives. The Chinese power elites successfully constructed a certain identity of Uyghur minority to achieve goals, spread discourses to convince majority of Han population, and securitized the whole Xinjiang region to legitimize its unlawful, unethical and immoral activities. In true sense the attack of 9/11 provided a pretext for china ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uighur of Xinjiang. The epistemological understanding of this research is interpretive, on the basis of that ontological position of research is subjective in nature to explore the evidences on the understudied research question, and research has adopted analytical research design. As the subject of ontology of this research is the idea of terrorism and how china copied it, is subject to different interpretations, hence subjective. Methodology used in this research has been qualitative in its nature, for this project the qualitative data has been used to provide analytical perspective. The secondary sources include articles, journals, news articles, reports, books, and some well reputed websites.

 Tauqeer Qader

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