Sentence examples for of splittism from inspiring English sources

For China has always said that it will not tolerate any signs of "splittism", and will attack if necessary.

An employee of a state-run publishing house whose earlier books called on Tibetans to slough off their superstitious ways, Mr. Tragyal, 47, faces the charge of "splittism," one of the gravest crimes under Chinese law.

Fen lie, with China's official translation of "splittism," has long been a hot-button word in Chinese communist terminology, and not just directed against Tibetans objecting to the ravishing of their culture.

Given that China already executes more than 10,000 people each year (that's the estimate of Human Rights Watch; the actual number is a state secret), the execution of men already declared guilty of terrorism and "splittism" in China would seem to be all but automatic.

And maybe (as Chait would probably argue) there is a distinctive form of whiny, self-defeating "splittism" on the left that's largely absent on the right.

Yet this is a loaded, even dangerous, theme within China, because of the government's hypersensitivity about what it calls "splittism" in any form — the concept that China's extent might ever have differed from its current borders, including those in Tibet and Xinjiang.

Charles Hopkins of Chicago writes: "I cannot find the words splittist or splittism in my dictionary.

To China's rulers it is a backward kind of place whose former serfs, "liberated" by the Communist army, have repaid the favour with ingratitude and even outright "splittism".

Splittism solidifies "Beijing's communist rulers," noted The Washington Post's editorial page, kept resolutely independent by the editor-columnist Fred Hiatt, "have been brushing off Olympics-related protests" as "the work of Western extremists or 'splittists' such as the Dalai Lama".

Yet for all China's propaganda and the new science suggesting how genetically close the two peoples may be unity is elusive and "splittism" a constant threat.

Three years ago, China's congress adopted an antisecession law threatening to use military force against Taiwan if it declared independence, using fen lie for secession, or splittism.