During the early 90 the terror attack was quite small in scale, it grew until late 90 when China started to take harsher action, and dwindled down a bit during US war on terror in 2001 when US agreed to put ETIM in the terror list in exchange for Chinese support. By 2009 the war on terror was basically over, terrorism in Xinjiang started to worsen after Rebiya who was released to the US in 2005 by Hu When to appease the West, manipulated and instigated the separatist from offshore.Putting a face to the name.
Initially the US was instigating the Tibetan prior to Beijing Olympic in 2008. It started with a riot in Lhasa, but there was a lukewarm support among the Tibetan population. So the senior lama instigate the junior monks to self immolate. But after too many self immolation in the name of Dalai put a bad spin to the publicity and his holly karma, it's time to unleash Rebiya to instigate the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
HK in 2019 was just a rinse and repeat of Urumqi in 2009. Different group with different background may take different approach and produce somewhat different result, but the same hidden instigator has the same hidden agenda.
During this time the naive Hu When officials made the grave mistake of tackling the terrorism from religious and economic perspective, leading to the explosive growth in terror attacks from 2009 to 2016. Can you imagine they released the leader of ETIM disregarding their crime and sentence as a show of good will to the jihadists?
The whole mistake lasted until 2016 after Xi removed the irresponsible and inept Xinjiang official from Hu When era. Then after China hit the nail on the head, US lost its card in Xinjiang, Trump/Bolton officially removed ETIM from terror list in order to justify bogus accusation of genocide in Xinjiang. Talk about making full use of a wasted card.
But US instigation already started with the unleashing of Rebiya, the terrorists were already given free pass to carry out attack since 2009. All of this I said are reflected in the terror attack statistic I posted.
