[jahabrewer]

> I told it I wanted to learn about ethnic minorities’ right to political self-determination

>

> [ERNIE:] [...] Xinjiang is an ethnic autonomous area mainly inhibited by the Uyghur people.

Typo or Freudian slip?

[yorwba]

As noted in the article, that part is a quote from http://english.www.gov.cn/archive/white_paper/2014/08/23/con... published in 2014.

[jahabrewer]

(that's the joke)

[muzani]

Fascinating. It seems like the whole "don't think about pink elephants" syndrome.