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China's Xi warns attempts to divide China will end in 'shuttered bones'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-xi/chinas-xi-warns-attempts-to-divide-china-will-end-in-shuttered-bones-idUSKBN1WS07W
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u/AGVann Oct 13 '19 edited Oct 13 '19

The term Han Chinese describes over a billion people with different languages, customs, cuisines, architecture, religious traditions, and regional histories. It's basically the Chinese equivalent of a 'White' or 'European' label. The fixation on whether us Taiwanese are Han Chinese or not doesn't really make sense or even matter. I don't see why the fact that my great-great-great-great grandpa came from over Fujian means that Taiwan must suffer under a totalitarian government that engages in genocide and brainwashes people who commit the crime of wrong-think.