It's not that much of a mystery. It really boils down to two emergent phenomenon that crashed against each other in 2017: Wokefication of American elites and chattering classes+start of Uighur concentration camps. Woke theology places Muslims among the highest pedestal (but not the highest, that's reserved for trannies and/or fags). Ongoing Great Awokening infected entire swaths of American academia, journalism, punditry, and FP chattering class (all of them add up to the Super Blob). When they saw one of their favorite totems get disrespected and humiliated totally, they lashed out in rage and tears. Geopolitics always flow downstream from whatever fanatical obsessions, paranoia, or neuroses that preoccupy the Super Blob. Hence, almost complete breakdown in Sino-US relations and launch of new Cold War.
It's not that much of a mystery. It really boils down to two emergent phenomenon that crashed against each other in 2017: Wokefication of American elites and chattering classes+start of Uighur concentration camps. Woke theology places Muslims among the highest pedestal (but not the highest, that's reserved for trannies and/or fags). Ongoing Great Awokening infected entire swaths of American academia, journalism, punditry, and FP chattering class (all of them add up to the Super Blob). When they saw one of their favorite totems get disrespected and humiliated totally, they lashed out in rage and tears. Geopolitics always flow downstream from whatever fanatical obsessions, paranoia, or neuroses that preoccupy the Super Blob. Hence, almost complete breakdown in Sino-US relations and launch of new Cold War.
Nope; the shift was before the NYT reports: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=xinjiang