US Prepares Terrorist Army to Expand its Dirty War on China

The US media has invested in recent years in rehabilitating Uyghur Chinese extremists now based in Syria, depicting them as “freedom fighters” whose ultimate goal is to “liberate” (carve off) territory in western China and are preparing to fight China across Eurasia — adding to an already ongoing dirty war the US has been waging against China over the 20th and 21st centuries.

It also includes the use of these same terrorists to divide and disrupt unified resistance to invading US forces in Iraq from 2003 onward and the eventual region-wide US reordering of the Arab World spanning Libya and Egypt in North Africa to Yemen and Syria in the Middle East beginning under the likewise US-engineered “Arab Spring” in 2011.

From North Africa to Central Asia, the US has admittedly utilized terrorist organizations listed by the US State Department itself as such to both target nations the US military cannot attack directly and to serve as a pretext for US invasions and occupations in nations the US seeks to attack more directly.

Other episodes in which this US strategy has been employed include against both Russia in its southern Caucasus region and even as far as China in East Asia.

While both Russia and China appear to have successfully neutralized this malicious method of proxy warfare utilized by Washington within their respective borders, the US continues not only arming and building up terrorist forces for future conflicts but is also shaping public perception to depict such use of US-sponsored terrorism as somehow supporting “freedom fighters” against “authoritarian” governments.

US Media Reintroducing Uyghur Terrorists as “Freedom Fighters”

A troubling sign that the US continues seeking to use extremists specifically tailored for attacking China and its investments and projects across Eurasia is a May 2026 National Public Radio (NPR) article titled “The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them.”

The article, the latest of many spanning recent years, portrays the largest segment of foreign fighters involved in the US-backed overthrow of Syria in 2024 — Uyghur extremists from China’s western region of Xinjiang — as simply fleeing persecution in China and incidentally ending up aligned with and fighting alongside Al Qaeda*.

The article mentions the previously US State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization (until June 2025), Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS*) Uyghur fighters were recruited as an Al Qaeda* affiliate, which ultimately overran Syrian forces in 2024, toppling the Syrian government.

HTS’ figurehead Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (now referred to as Ahmed al-Sharaa) has even been designated as Syria’s de facto president by the US and its proxies and has even been invited to the White House by current US President Donald Trump despite previously having a 10 million USD reward on his head by the US government itself.

The moral flexibility of the US regarding Al Qaeda* based on whether the US is trying to justify direct military intervention in Syria before the government’s collapse or cement a terrorist-led proxy regime afterward is the central hallmark of the decades-spanning use by Washington of terrorist organizations to target, undermine, topple, then politically capture targeted nations.

It is no coincidence that the US not only recruited thousands of Uyghur extremists to fight alongside HTS* in its proxy war against the Syrian government but now seeks to redeploy this battle-hardened, experienced force of extremists across Eurasia as part of its ongoing dirty war against China.

The NPR article, in regard to thousands of battle-hardened Uyghur extremists, stated:

They say they now hope to preserve their culture and perhaps one day raise an army powerful enough to seize control of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan as the Uyghurs call it, the region that the Uyghurs consider their homeland and that the Chinese Communist Party took control of in 1949.

Of course, Xinjiang had been part of China for centuries and only briefly during the 20th century found itself adrift as part of the US-European imposed “century........

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