“It’s not colonialism, it’s racial revanchism!” probably does not sound as sympathetic as you think. And why can’t it be both? It is also true that Xinjiang wa

“It’s not colonialism, it’s racial revanchism!” probably does not sound as sympathetic as you think. And why can’t it be both? It is also true that Xinjiang was once peopled by the Han thousands of years ago, before the Uighers arrived, but that does not at all affect my understanding of the relationship between the Han and Uighers today. Why should it? It doesn’t change the fact that one side is extending its dominance over the other.