Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province. This narrative is not only riddled with inconsistencies but reeks of the same imperialist strategies the U.S. has employed for decades to destabilise dozens of nations and advance its own geopolitical ambitions.

The U.S. has an history of engineering coups, supporting dictators, and funding insurgencies to serve its interests that has been amply proven by many whistle-blowers and by investigative organisations like Wikileaks. Over the last seventy years, the CIA and its proxy, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), have been instrumental in subverting and overturning governments the bulk of whom were democratically elected, and propping up oppressive regimes worldwide. From Korea, Vietnam, and Iran to Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Taiwan, the list of U.S. interventions is staggering. The same methods have also been applied across Africa and Asia, leaving a trail of poverty, misery, exploitation and failed states in their wake.

Eastern Europe and major powers like the Soviet Union and China have not been immune to U.S. interference. Post-1949, after China’s Communist revolution, Washington lamented that it had “lost” China—a country it never had control over. This loss spurred an unrelenting campaign to undermine China’s sovereignty. One of the key tactics has been fostering instability within China’s borders, particularly in its Xinjiang province.

Xinjiang, home to the Uighur ethnic minority, became a focal point for U.S. interference. The CIA and later the NED cultivated and funded violent extremist groups among Uighur separatists, aiming to fracture China and carve........

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