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pretty clear actions of a colonial oppressor, imo

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Who is colonizing who in this case?

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Chinese people colonising turkic people

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Ethnic Han to be more specific, but yeah

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Yep. Independent Turkic kingdoms were in the region until China conquered them in the 18th century.

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https://www.britannica.com/place/Yunnan/History

Says it was controlled by various Chinese dynasties starting in 221 BC. I don’t see any references to Turkic peoples being in Yunnan, on that page or others.

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It seems weird that the CCP destroyed this Mosque and ran a massacre, apologized for it, paid for it to be rebuilt which was completed in 2009, and then promptly changed it again.

Incidentally, it had to do with who was running the CCP at each time period. Really helps to discredit Xi as some pompous moron compared to Deng who understood the value in giving people rights & liberties and not running the country like a craphole like how Mao did.

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Those two are the same place? Looks like it was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as something else, I’m seeing very little similarly between the two.

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They basically added a couple of floors to hide the dome. Looks like the spires got shorter though.

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I do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.

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AFAIK these domes are beautiful on the inside, I would assume they kept it, but we’re talking cultural revolution levels of narrow mindedness here, so who knows?

Edit: from the satellite imagery I’d say its gone.

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Wait, in ALL of China? Not a single mosque dome?

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There’s domes everywhere, not really sure what The Guardian is talking about

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Is it the wording? They said “Arabic”.

I don’t know anything about building, China, mosques, etc. I’m just saying words.

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No, there’s many many Hui Arabic-style mosques.

Maybe The Guardian doesn’t know about them and doesn’t consider them “major”, but that sounds like The Guardian’s problem.

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Complete bullshit. I saw multiple when I was there, and some of the oldest mosques in the world are in China, dating back to at least 800AD

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shh The Guardian had a slow news day ok

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Sinicism - something characteristic of or peculiar to the Chinese; a Chinese method, custom, or usage.

Learned a new word today.

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I’ve always had a pretty sinical view about the Chinese.

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This is an amazing pun by means of play on words and phonetics to imply additional meaning. Incredible.

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You’ll see the prefix “sino-” a lot if you start looking into Chinese geopolitical history.

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