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Personal anecdote: Several years ago I had a long and very polite chat with a Hong Kong lady who worked on "China rights" and made the argument that peoples under Chinese rule who don't share (any) linguistic, cultural, ethnic or religious identity of the Chinese state should be entitled to self-determination or independence.

Apparently the British-era Hong Kong's history curriculum followed closely that of the PRC's (and KMT's?) imperial views on history, so while the lady agreed that those peoples' human rights situation should improve, their right to self-determination seemed just incomprehensible. Meanwhile those above-mentioned distinct colonized "identities" are being systematically erased by the Chinese dictatorship.

I never had a change to meet her again, but later, after the crushing of Hong Kong's own democracy movement and civil society, I heard from acquintances that she had emigrated from Hong Kong.

To Taiwan.

Good for her. She had some place to go where apart from spoken language she doesn't feel like a refugee and it's almost like home. Unlike those colonial subjects who have no backup options outside their colonized homelands.

"Divided we fall".

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