Beijing is rewriting history, banning plays, and restricting what and how children learn in schools, fueling criticism from the West
Genghis Khan and his heirs once conquered the territory of modern-day China to create the largest contiguous land empire in history. Almost 800 years after his death, the Mongolian warlord is emerging as a new threat to President Xi Jinping.
On a visit last month to the Genghis Khan Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, a Chinese region triple the size of Japan and home to four million ethnic Mongolians, a local official explained that ritual celebrations of the conqueror have been curtailed.
Some 180 miles away in the regional capital of Hohhot, the history museum has gotten rid of its “Genghis Khan and His Empire” exhibit, along with any souvenirs featuring him in the gift shop. China last year even passed a law mandating that the Chinese language must be used over Mongolian in order to “safeguard national sovereignty.”
“Our ideology has changed,” a staff member at the museum in Hohhot said. “We are emphasizing unity and not highlighting any ethnicity over another.”
Xi sees ethnic minorities in China’s peripheral regions posing just as much a risk to the Communist Party as democracy activists in Hong Kong and independence advocates in Taiwan.
Similar erasures & fabrications of past and present are occurring in the West. End whiteness. DEI. You will own nothing and be happy. The ineluctable tendency for all social groups to become hierarchical and then totalitarian is the sociological instinct that lies behind Xi, WEF, US, Big Money, academia, religions, you-name-it. Instincts are ineluctable in the sense that they are always there, but so is reason always there or at least always possible, Reason is harder than instinct and most people do not know how to think linguistically or conceptually, so meta-levels of communication are invariably commandeered by authoritarians, kings, priests, ideologues, rogues, anyone in a position to seize more. Buddhists above all should be wary of these delusional instincts which always lead to suffering. ABN
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