Even if you argue somehow tibet is being "colonized", Xinjiang has been a part of Chinese empires for so fucking long-- it's actually an insane take to assume a modern chinese state would not include this area.
Also, the Chinese build islands out of sand so they can slap down military bases. Hardly comparable to the fucking Trail of Tears or literally the entire post Civil War era of American history-- which includes this nation's worst excesses and crimes.
Also the Soviet Republic of Xinjiang voted to be annexed into China. They also had a referendum on joining the Soviet Union too. They decided to join China and they joined it conditionally.
So is the idea that China is "settling" Tibet and Xinjiang? That's the only way that the "settler-colonial" part makes sense.
immediately made incoherent by the fact that Tibet was liberated (in their minds authoritarianly occupied) by Mao (who they supposedly support)
Love that word
me too comrade
Even if you argue somehow tibet is being "colonized", Xinjiang has been a part of Chinese empires for so fucking long-- it's actually an insane take to assume a modern chinese state would not include this area.
Also, the Chinese build islands out of sand so they can slap down military bases. Hardly comparable to the fucking Trail of Tears or literally the entire post Civil War era of American history-- which includes this nation's worst excesses and crimes.
Also the Soviet Republic of Xinjiang voted to be annexed into China. They also had a referendum on joining the Soviet Union too. They decided to join China and they joined it conditionally.