This is the point that I found disappointingly lacking in the article. Most Westerners have very little familiarity with China's diversity, and this article wou

This is the point that I found disappointingly lacking in the article. Most Westerners have very little familiarity with China's diversity, and this article would have been a great way to introduce some of that nuance to the uninitiated. To wit, it's not just Tibet, who's conflicts with Beijing have been very well publicized, but many other parts of China that are ambivalent about integration into Beijing society. China is far from monolithic, but this article fails to dispel the common assumption that it is.