What you say may be true, but had the Chinese government treated the Uyghurs as equals to the Han, the NED's activities would be of no avail. Looking at it that way, the NED is still exploiting an already-existent weekness in the system.
Could you see the NED trying to create a rift between Manitoba and the rest of Canada? Unless Manitoba has some very legitimate grievance of some sort, the NED's activities would be of no avail, and would likely even backfire. Same applies in China. I'm not saying that the NED is right in what it's doing. It is just as guilty as the Chinese regime. All I'm saying is that had the Chinese regime treated the Uyghurs more fairly, the NED's activities in China woudl ahve come to no avail.
Interesting you should mention Canada. We can deal with those particular breeches in Canadas soverignty in another thread. The NED has no business funding and inflaming violent uprising in any country, there is absolutely no equality between the Chinese government and the NED, none whatever.