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China’s five-finger punch
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on July 22, 2020 @ 11:13
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[1] crackdown: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/world/asia/china-un-human-rights-philip-alston.html
[2] effective demise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838#:~:text=The%20new%20law
[3] filled: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/xi-china-gulag-uighur-muslims-xinjiang-by-brahma-chellaney-2019-04
[4] laid the groundwork: https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/emperor-xi
[5] sees himself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/chinese-communist-partys-ideology-global-ambitions/
[6] others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7JeeqNJSg
[7] compared: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-xitler-tshirt-kwon-pyong.html
[8] most prolific butcher: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/05/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao/
[9] inspired: https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
[10] title: https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-chinas-troubles-mushroom-xi-collects-a-special-title-11577525539
[11] meant: https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/India_and_the_South_Asian_Strategic_Tria/W5UtCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
[12] incursions: https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/for-india-a-tipping-point-with-china/story-6hwPN84esqFFpWPssRn3yM.html
[13] called it: https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability-8/
[14] believe: https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-07-13/china-denies-funerals-for-soldiers-killed-in-india-skirmish-source
[15] disengage: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/follow-all-agreed-protocols-for-border-management-indias-clear-message-to-china-in-marathon-military-talks/articleshow/76979760.cms
[16] new claim: https://thediplomat.com/2020/07/whats-behind-chinas-expansion-of-its-territorial-dispute-with-bhutan/
[17] occupied: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/india-appeasement-china-border-standoff-by-brahma-chellaney-2020-06
[18] aided: https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Nepal-can-democracy-and-communism-coexist2
[19] openly meddled: https://thediplomat.com/2020/07/chinas-engagement-with-nepals-ruling-party-troubles-india/
[20] warned: https://www.thequint.com/news/china-using-road-construction-to-encroach-on-nepali-land-report
[21] rise: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-water-hegemon?barrier=accesspaylog
[22] leverage: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/world-rivers-endangered-by-damming-diversion-pollution-by-brahma-chellaney-2020-02
[23] part of China: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=VScfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=The+incontrovertible+fact+is+that+the+only+occasions+in+history+when+Tibet+was+clearly+part+of+China+was+under+non-Han+dynasties%E2%80%94that+is,+when+China+itself+had+been+conquered+by+outsiders:+the+Mongol+Yuan+Dynasty,+from+1271+to+1368%3B+and+the+latter+half+of+the+Manchu+Qing+Dynasty,+which+lasted+from+1644+to+1911.+What+Beijing+today+asserts+are+regions+%E2%80%9Cintegral%E2%80%9D+to+its+territorial+integrity+are+really+imperial+spoils+of+earlier+foreign+dynastic+rule+in+China&source=bl&ots=wTO-jG7IMU&sig=ACfU3U1iRez0_Y6Sf1V38iJ0Sm8KLdoZfA&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=The%20incontrovertible%20fact%20is%20that%20the%20only%20occasions%20in%20history%20when%20Tibet%20was%20clearly%20part%20of%20China%20was%20under%20non-Han%20dynasties%E2%80%94that%20is%2C%20when%20China%20itself%20had%20been%20conquered%20by