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China appears to have done with Uyghurs, and has moved on to next frontier : Mongols.
by tsjq 6y ago
China appears to have done with Uyghurs, and has moved on to next frontier : Mongols.
- EliRivers 6y agoOh yes, like that exhibition in France that mentioned Ghengis Khan. Can't have that; it goes against the CCCP narrative of the history of China.
- GauntletWizard 6y agoIf you haven’t heard of it, like I hadn’t: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/14/french-genghis-khan-exhibit-put-interference-claims/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/14/french-genghis-k...
- andi999 6y agoThanks. There must be more to this story. Everybody in China knows about the Yuan dynasty (and its origin).
- GauntletWizard 6y agoToday. Today, everyone knows about it. The unpleasant parts of history have a tendency of disappearing. In a hundred years time, we might only remember Xanadu.
- tsjq 6y agoFurther, despite the Mongols comprising a good part of the population, China is forcing Chinese language onto them (the Inner Mongolia state) and has begun to gradually phase out their native language.
- math_random 6y agoits Tibet now
- tsjq 6y agoTibet is done.
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- sudofail 6y agoAnd after that, Taiwan
- thrwyoilarticle 6y agoOr the China-relations zeitgeist only has room for one story at a time and the rest get ignored. It's very hard to know these things deeply when we don't speak the language or understand the history. This story might be the first time readers find out about China caring about Mongols at all