[yarg]

No, it isn't.

China's real threat is to any non-Han ethnic minority locked in the creepingly expansive orwellian nightmare of an empire that is gradually emerging.

Right now it's the Uighurs, and when the Dalai Lama bites it, and the false Panchen finds his false replacement it'll be the Tibetans too (or again).

America's ruling ideology is the almighty petro-dollar, and if you think the Chinese over-class is any less capitalistic or energy hungry than America's (albeit with a little extra corporate espionage and a few more paper dragons), you're mistaken and deluded.

[hker]

> China's real threat is to any non-Han ethnic minority locked in the creepingly expansive orwellian nightmare of an empire that is gradually emerging.

> Right now it's the Uighurs, and when the Dalai Lama bites it, and the false Panchen finds his false replacement it'll be the Tibetans too (or again).

I think China is a threat even to Hong Kong and Taiwan where Han is the ethnic majority. Ethnicity is not the issue, ideology is.

[yarg]

In the ideology of Communist China the two are interlinked. The Chinese claim to Taiwan seems to me not to be a claim to the land directly, but a claim to the people and hence the land.