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China is so big. There are parts of China that China doesn't even know about yet. In any particular day (and on one in particular) you can wake up in a crummy Chinese hotel, hop on a bus to an Israeli town past that into an Afghani village in the mountains, into the Egyptian desert, and finally rest in the afternoon under the grapevine shade of a Greek estate. China is not only Chinese, in fact more of it is not Chinese than is. While Han are the ethnic majority, the land is vastly not the typical CHINESE landscape and there are people over nearly half of it that are Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazak, Turk, Russian, Uyger and many other smaller ethnicities.
And even that is not all the city is another story all together.
Yet they all are Chinese, Just ask them (in what ever language they speak and they will tell you.)
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As for the ethinic make-up of China, my understanding from wwhat I heard there is that by numbers the Han are about 90% of the population. But perhaps what you were saying is that by area of landmass, more of it is inhabited by non-Han peoples, and I agree with this. Think of Tibet and the western deserts. . . of the Inner Mongolian landmass. Can you clarify or help set me straight?
Of course the sad part of the government plan is to spread the Han throughout regions that is not theirs, never has been theirs, and in so doing fully assimilate their empire. This may turn out to be the first truly successful assimilation in history, because of the numbers and the totalitarian vision and enactment.
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