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We’ll just have to disagree. My sources tell me that Tibetans are free to exercise their religion as long as they do not advocate separation. And yes, in a nutshell, the Muslim problem can be largely captured in the idea that some Uygurs, especially those Islamic fundamentalists, don’t want their daughters to be “Han-itized” in Mandarin schools. It’s an old story, at least as old as the stories of the American government and the American Indian.

We’ll just have to disagree on this.

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Manchu dynasty died in 1912. So with Beijing’s claim on Tibet and Xinjiang. For a while, they were independent.
Russia can not claim sovereignty on Ukraine after Soviet Union disintegrated. Russia ruled over Ukraine for a long time. Finland was part of Sweden for a long time, too.