The Hill | China is making gains in the Middle East — Uyghurs could be key to stopping them

By: Michael Mazza and Shay Khatiri | THE HILL |

China’s ambitions in the Middle East are not a secret. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, China has been taking advantage of the U.S. support for Israel to align itself with Arab populations, hoping that this would in turn force their governments to distance themselves from the United States.

…China’s anti-Israel public diplomacy campaign is an appeal to Middle Easterners’ religious identity as Muslims and as victims of infidel Israelis. It is as crude as it is effective and appealing, but it is also an act of shameless gaslighting.

The silent genocide of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is the greatest persecution of Muslims at the hands of non-Muslims since at least the Yugoslav wars…

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