[pjc50]

> 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".

[gurkendoktor]

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.)