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The Yuan dynasty, regardless of how they have assimilated into Chinese culture, did officially made the Mongols part of Chinese civilization. When the Golden Horde was broken apart, the Yuan declared themselves as the next Chinese dynasty. Genghis and Kublai Khan were given temple names. This had effectively sinicized themselves as a Chinese dynasty.
The Yuan did made important changes to the Chinese map. They were the first to establish Beijing as a capital. They have included Mongolia into greater China. This laid the foundation for the assimilation of Mongolians into Chinese civilization when the Qing conquered Mongolia later. And they had officially incorporated Xizang into the greater Chinese nation. Now I don't want to bring up modern Mongolia, as that was a Russian-made problem. That is a whole other topic of discussion to chew on.
Sure the Yuan and Qing had treated the Han as lower caste citizens. Yet the Han-based dynasties had not been shining beacons of egalitarianism too. We cannot judge ancient China through the lens of modern day human rights. This kind of thinking plays into Western attempts to gaslight everyone about the idea of China. The Yuan and Qing dynasties had already gone through the process of sinicizing themselves and their people into the Chinese civilization. That should settle any doubts about their Chinese identities.
This is not the same as the Western powers, Russians, and Japanese when they came and took pieces of China. They had never sinicized and had instead tried to displace Chinese civilization with their imperial subjugation. For example, the Japanese had forced Taiwanese collaborators to denounce their Chinese ancestry and adopt Japanese ones.
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That is because every single one of them was backed by foreign powers. Tibet and to some extant Xinjiang was backed by Britain. Xinjiang by the soviets. Inner Mongolia and Manchuria by Japan. None of these separatist movements are organic.
Seem an Aussie media got "issue"?
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I thought it was because the Koreans started accusing Chinese of cultural appropriation and stealing Korean culture?
What? So ISRO supposedly has higher safety standards than SpaceX?
ISRO had been missing from the headlines of India's space tourist celebrations. So they (or just Dr V Narayanan) must somehow conjure up some kinda credit to claim.
Just how pathetic can they get with claiming credit?
They talk as if SpaceX would have launched anyway with a faulty Falcon-9 rocket.
ISRO had been missing from the headlines of India's space tourist celebrations. So they (or just Dr V Narayanan) must somehow conjure up some kinda credit to claim.
Just how pathetic can they get with claiming credit?
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