Just FYI; the National Endowment for Democracy (funded by the US government) gives roughly $700,000 to two Uighur separatist advocacy groups every year.
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/xinjiang-east-turkestan-china-2018/
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https://www.ned.org/region/asia/xinjiang-east-turkestan-china-2018/