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by gurkendoktor 2561 days ago
The problem is that the PRC is going for an authoritarian ethnostate, and I think this a reasonable system to have in the global "marketplace of ideas", but at the same time they refuse to give up non-Han territories like Xinjiang that don't fit into this equation at all.

Also, the CCP won't leave people alone who leave China for more attractive systems. They're hardly interested in a competition of systems.
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pjc50 2561 days ago
> authoritarian ethnostate, and I think this a reasonable system to have in the global "marketplace of ideas"

It really isn't, as it's not achievable without mass murder or at the very least "ethnic cleansing".

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gurkendoktor 2561 days ago
That's kind of my point. They wouldn't need to cleanse the Muslim regions (or Tibet for that matter) if they weren't part of the PRC to begin with. But of course China will never give up these territories -- in fact they're busy trying to annex other places where the CCP system is not welcome.

(Not trying to imply that everything that happens within the "core" of China is awesome.)

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