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Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

??? Xinjiang's curriculum still has Uyghur as the primary language as of 2023, Uyghur internet celebs aren't speaking Mandarin on Douyin (ever wonder why TikTok has subtitles as a default? Partially for the hearing impaired, but the app it's cloned from is Chinese and that is multilingual, hence pushing for subtitles as a default. Cantonese, Hokkien, Haka, Min, Tibetan, Uyghur, etc etc)

The news is broadcast in Uyghur, the road signs are in Uyghur

What Reddit post said Han people were going into homes to enforce Mandarin? Han people ourselves don't even speak Mandarin exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The han people in Uighur homes thing is in the UN report. Afaik the official explanation is some kind of cultural exchange, meet your neighbors, get to know other cultural groups from your country thing, but it sounded pretty clumsy. I don't recall anything about telling people not to speak their language.