> China's real threat is to any non-Han ethnic minority locked in the creepingly expansive orwellian nightmare of an empire that is gradually emerging. > Right

> China's real threat is to any non-Han ethnic minority locked in the creepingly expansive orwellian nightmare of an empire that is gradually emerging. > Right now it's the Uighurs, and when the Dalai Lama bites it, and the false Panchen finds his false replacement it'll be the Tibetans too (or again). I think China is a threat even to Hong Kong and Taiwan where Han is the ethnic majority. Ethnicity is not the issue, ideology is.