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splittism
noun
Political separatism, specifically the following of independent interests as opposed to central Communist party policy.
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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".
For China has always said that it will not tolerate any signs of "splittism", and will attack if necessary.
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.
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.
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.
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But southern Xinjiang is now less remote, and the state's security apparatus has been able to crack down more harshly on "splittism .Besides, the same roads and railways that take natural resources out also bring Han migrants in.
Old wars never die Budding greens Fast foes Keith Colquhoun Splittism on the roof of the world Correction: Tibet ReprintsThe protest continued for much of the past week as loudspeakers blared and a black-shirted Mr Weerawansa launched a "fast-unto-death" while lying inside a shed across the road from the compound.
Old wars never die Budding greens Fast foes Keith Colquhoun Splittism on the roof of the world Correction: Tibet ReprintsSuch efforts help to change her old image as a left-wing radical.
China is important, and goes into ritual hysterics at any foreign behaviour that seems to promote 'splittism'splittism
Old wars never die Budding greens Fast foes Keith Colquhoun Splittism on the roof of the world Correction: Tibet ReprintsLaos denies that the Hmong, one of dozens of minority groups, face any ill treatment.
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