Xinjiang and Tibet have been under Chinese governorship on and off since the Tang and Yuan dynastic periods. Tibet would have a greater claim to being an actual country, since when it still existed in the more modern epoch, when the concept of Nation-states were materialized out of the old epoch of feudalist kingdoms, as a slave-holding feudalist theocratic kingdom.
Both of these regions have broad, quite literally thousands of years of, histories that can't simply be reduced to strawmen so you can draw parallels to American history - and in extent British history as well as the other colonial powers that operated in the region at the time - so you can make a :reddit-logo: brained "Gotcha" here-abouts.
Xinjiang and Tibet have been under Chinese governorship on and off since the Tang and Yuan dynastic periods. Tibet would have a greater claim to being an actual country, since when it still existed in the more modern epoch, when the concept of Nation-states were materialized out of the old epoch of feudalist kingdoms, as a slave-holding feudalist theocratic kingdom.
Both of these regions have broad, quite literally thousands of years of, histories that can't simply be reduced to strawmen so you can draw parallels to American history - and in extent British history as well as the other colonial powers that operated in the region at the time - so you can make a :reddit-logo: brained "Gotcha" here-abouts.