[bingbong70]

CIA has a long history of funding terrorists and attempting regime change operations around the world, China included.

People that know the pattern can see the bullshit coming from a mile away.

Why the US all of a sudden loves the Uyghur terrorists that it was bombing with impunity not too long ago...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7id66fk9hY

[zepto]

The US was bombing Uighurs? That seems like total bullshit to me.

[xtian]

The US considered ETIM a terrorist organization before they became useful got reframed as freedom fighters: https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/p...

[zepto]

So they didn’t bomb ‘Uighurs’ because they are Uighurs. They classified a particular organization as terrorists.

I.e. this is a false equivalence with what China is accused of.

[xtian]

The US removed this organization’s terrorist designation and is now promoting them as the voice of the oppressed Uyhgur people. I’m not trying to draw any equivalence.

[zepto]

They did the same with the IRA in Northern Ireland. That’s what happens in geopolitics. Relationships change.

What does it have to do with what is happening in Xinjiang?

[sudosysgen]

Please, let's not equate the IRA with international islamiste terrorists operating in multiple countries and associated with Al Qaeda.

The argument is that the US changing its mind on terrorists just because they are Uyghurs after bombing them shows that there is foul play involved and that the US government does not act in good faith on the matter, but instead is weaponizing the Xinjiang issue for geopolitical gain and distorting the truth to do so.

[Dah00n]

I'm not convinced. That sounds just like the reasoning China uses. "We are not targeting a people but a terror organisation".

[bingbong70]

>U.S. targets Chinese Uighur militants as well as Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-targets-chinese-uighu...

They were considered terrorists, then at some point during the Syrian regime change project, imported Uyghur fighters became useful allies to the US along with Al Nusra, Al Qaeda and ISIS.

US is also currently rehabilitating an Al Qaeda militant's image to make him the 'Juan Guaido' of Syria...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/abu-mohammad-al-j...

[zepto]

> in Afghanistan

I think this is the relevant phrase, no?

[sudosysgen]

How is it relevant? They are Uyghurs, and this terrorist group does operate in China too. The fact that this year they stopped being terrorists according to the US does smell like bullshit.

Certainly, the US didn't bomb them for their ethnicity. That doesn't make the statement factually incorrect, the flip-flopping there smells like bullshit and that's what GP was alluding to if we are reading the comment in good faith.