Post-communist Mongolia

Post-communist Mongolia hasn't changed a bit, politically and ideologically compared to the communist-era Mongolia. Unfortunately. Since 1990 it has a lot of time passed, enough for a better change, but no improvement at all. People say, South Korea has managed to become one of the top economies just in under 30 years! Or the Arab countries! How they turned a desert land to a paradise, using their natural resources? It depends all on how they run their country. Many post-communist countries don't do  well as they wish. There is no magic recipe for all. Every country's situation is different, the way of life, tradition, custom, mindset  etc. 

As for Mongolians, being nomads for thousands of years, it was hard to change the scenario and to try a different way of life. They used to listen to a leader who they believe can lead them the right way. Even tough they like  being as independent, they would obey a strong leader and follow unconditionally. We saw this in Mongolia's history when the Great king Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis khan) led Mongolians to triumph in 13th century. 

Today we have to adapt a new way of how to live, or run the country, after we tried to reach the paradise called communism as Karl Marx and Lenin promised us, for 70 years. We dreamed 70 years until we collapsed. The generation, educated and brainwashed during that period is still alive and powerful, to hinder any new ideas. After communism collapsed, a new term called democracy was introduced and the majority believed that we finally got on the right track. But it doesn't seem to be the ideal one as we expected.  One must admit that the latter has lots of pluses compared to the previous one.

70 years of communism, plus 30 years of democracy equals 100 years of "commudemo". What a waste of time! The result? Look at us now! Every third one is labeled as poor. Statistically. People say, actual percentage of poor people is higher that the statistic. I am one of them. I drive a junk car of Japanese origin and I use a used old laptop. I have an old TV set brought from South Korea, found on the street. Maybe I am not the extreme poor one because I own a laptop and an old car, but that is only thanks to help from other family members, I could keep myself let's say at a "moderate" level.

 

 

 

 

MPP flag (Copy of French flag with red and blue stripes switched the sides)
 

Ironically, the current ruler is the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), the former communist party called Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP)-the only political party back in the communist era, which actually ruled most of the time since 1990 when we voted for democracy (many political parties, human rights, privatization, free speech etc). So basically, the wolf found a sheep skin and covered himself with it, pretending to be a sheep. And we saw it as sheep, too! (They removed the word "revolutionary" from their party name 'cause they didn't want to look like communists)

Besides MPP, there is one major party called Mongolian Democratic Party (MDP) which was "lucky" to defeat MPP just ones in the past elections. So MPP is the ruling wolf in sheep's skin. Forget about the other over 30 political parties in Mongolia, we can call them as preschool establishments.  Our wolf has revealed himself to us in many situations. No matter how hard they pretend, communist way of running the country is the only way they know. 

One example: To solve the traffic jam in the capital city, they decided to limit the number of license plates in the city to 730 thousand. No new number will be  given over that limitation. They want to hold the number of cars in check. They force us not to drive one day in a week based on license plate (LP) number ending digit. If your LP number ends with 5, you are not allowed to drive on Fridays. Sometimes they put in force a much tougher rule which allows you to drive only 3 days in a week, excluding weekends. This ruling is called "Even and odd number driving", which means you drive only on odd days (Mon, Wed, Fri) because you LP number ends with 5 (Odd number). In order to be fair, they regulate it so that even numbers can  drive 3 times week, in that case you "suddenly" drive on even weekdays, even if your LP license plate number's last digit is 5. :)

Wolf in sheep's skin

 

This one example shows that wolves in sheep's skin can not and do not know how to run a country. MPP's youth organization is called SDY Mongolia (Social-Democrat Youth) and that is where young wolves are being prepared as successors, communists to be precise. Their office is located in the headquarters building of MPP and they have a website. If you visit it at www.sdy.mn , you'll be surprised. I don't know whether it is a Mongolian youth organization or an US one. Maybe they don't care about the Mongolian youth but like to work abroad to take care of San Francisco youth?

 Weird, isn't it?

Anyways, let's continue with thoughts about what should be done in order to get rid of wolves and get on the right track. Yes, times have changed and so we are not talking about a supreme leader or King, but we need a society where responsibilities are met and laws are followed. Parliamentary system did not work out and that is proven in the past 30 years. It is not because Parliamentary government form is bad, but because it does not suit us. For a while anyway. We are not ready or prepared to use this system, yet. 

What suits us is the Presidential system.  We want somebody, not a party or the majority in the Parliament to run the country. We want one Head, not many heads who then disappear and pointing fingers in all directions when we demand accountability. We want to see clearly who is responsible for what and this system grants a separation of powers which is exactly what we need. The Parliamentary system has a loophole which have been successfully used by our wolves to get unimaginable personal gain in the past. New-Mongols got so rich to fly oversees (US) to buy a gift, a fancy car to be precise, for his friend's son's birthday! Imagine that. 

I am not hopeful that this year's Parliamentary election will bring a change. Former communists will win again because they have lots of money to buy votes. And none of the political parties, big and small, want to change the current system, parliamentary system, because they know that it is very useful to get rich once they get chosen by the people. And MPP has made sure that the Constitution cannot be touched for some years, which means this system won't be changed for a while. They did it through an amendment to the Constitution. They play with the Constitution whenever is a change needed and whatever they want to change. 

So, any system change in the Constitution  seems like a dream. Don't know when this dream will come true. Until then we have to live with it, unless something magical happens. Sigh.

 

Why can't we live as one?

 

Why can't we live as one?

Too many things circling my mind. Don't know where to begin. Probably because it's not about one specific topic but about many.

Sometimes when I shut myself off from the surrounding world, I would wonder why we face so many problems in the world. There is a reason for every problem and once we know the cause it should not be difficult to solve it. But the question is if we want it. And it is possible if we only change the status-quo, i.e., how we run the world today.

Let's begin with the Man. Some say the Man was created by God. Others stick to the science believing our origin was the Monkey. Let me ask now: If we are all the Children of the God, why we hate each other? Or, if we are all descendants of the Monkey, then why would we dislike each other? We forgot where we came from, we forgot that we have the same roots, whether it is the Monkey or Adam and Eve. Although we are all related, we are changed in the course of our lifetime and look different, caused basically by the location of settlement. Different locations mean different conditions, way of life, and have metamorphic impacts. Instead of being thankful and enjoy our differences, we hate our different looking brothers. We wanted to look all exactly the same, just like the cows. Why? Don't you like burgers, pizza, sushi, schnitzel, tacos and so many different sweets?

Unfortunately, the Man is so “stupid” to judge others for their appearance, lifestyle and/or just for being “different”. Man even goes so far that he/she is “better” or “superior” than the others. Here comes the racial hatred.

Let's go back to the question of how the Man has become so different. Like I mentioned earlier, it was caused by the region they inhabited. In short, Africa is hot, and man was “burnt” to black. It is a tough challenging environment where Man had to be fit to survive. The result: They are physically dominant the others. The environment wouldn't allow any chance for them to care about scientific and any other progressive development. It was about survival. So cruel.

The white “monkeys” in the other hand found a place like paradise where their skin turned soft and bright. The environment offered them the most pleasant condition to settle down and work on any possible development. Physically they grew bigger compared to “yellow monkeys” but soft and fragile in comparison to African man.

The Asians, addressed as “yellow monkeys”, are the “smaller” stature of the Man and that again is the outcome caused by the environment and lifestyle they lived. They had to be agile and small. Depending on the lifestyle, sedentary or nomadic, they differ a little bit among themselves, but in overall they are similar. Nomadic ones are bulkier and tougher than the sedentary ones.

So racial hatred would be one reason for not tolerating each other, which causes confrontation of different kind. There are other reasons beside the skin color, not to like each other: religion and politics.

Just like we have three different colors of skins, there are three main religions which divide the world. Religions with different names but all worship so called God. There are enough proofs in the world history that religion caused wars and hatred, so accept it. Although any religion speaks for peace, there is no liking each other, not even slightest tolerance.

The same for the politics and geopolitics. Different political views and ideologies split people nationally and internationally.

In the animal world it looks different. The animals have no racial issue, no political party membership and no religions. So basically, they live in peace. We would have had peace if the evolution has had us not converted to Man. We would have had been living in peace with our cousins, modern-day monkeys.

Let's put aside the fantasy for now and exam the real world today. For all the reasons mentioned above, mankind suffered a lot. Still suffering. Back in 1945, we created the UN, to regulate and fix worldwide problems, to unite all the nations under one world community but unfortunately it failed. So many wars and conflicts since then, and the UN was not able to fix the problem. The thing is that so called “big powers” are trying to dictate the rest of the world by using the so-called Security Council at the UN where they make decisions as they please, for the rest to follow. All other members of this organization are “the sheep” and the SC is being “the shepherd”. Shepherd has the almighty nuclear weapon while others are not allowed to have it. SC is talking about nuclear-free world, but they are not willing to get rid of own arsenal. They have a special status and privilege. They can attack others for whatever reason and the rest can't do anything. Latest example is the Russian invasion. The world is helpless because Russia is one of the SC members. How can one talk about peace and friendship?

My dream? The UN must be dissolved and created as new. The new one should not have a SC or any other privileged body, and any decision should be made by voting of all members. The majority should rule. Any party whose wrongdoing is blamed by majority should be punished by disconnecting it from the rest of the world community immediately, economically and politically until it corrects mistakes made and pays damages it caused. Since the world community is very much dependent on each other, isolating the bad guy can be the effective problem solving. No need of UN peacekeeping forces. All UN members are equal and must participate to decide on any global problem by voting. All nuclear weapons must be destroyed.

Territorial disputes must be cleared also by the majority at the UN. If we do it so, the world map might have to be drawn anew. In short, the world becomes a peaceful planet and the nations, big and small, rich and poor, will be friends and there won't be any fighting, anymore. Any military coalition must be disbanded too.

The common rule must be written anew, and all members should follow it.

Sounds like a letter of 5-year-old to Santa Claus, right?

Lastly, I want to ask: Why can't we live as one? Remember Scorpion's song, “Under the same sun”? We all live under the same sun and walk under the same moon. We have one only planet. Our life is short, so let's enjoy our short life and live in peace.

"Middle finger" award recipients

 

Khurelsukh Ukhnaa

New Year's speech by the President of Mongolia, Khurelsukh Ukhnaa,  has been ignored by many Mongols (intentionally changing the TV channel) in protest of his unsatisfying job as President. Even though his position should be considered as symbolic as described in  the Constitution, and his power is very limited, many Mongols see this position very powerful and influential.  Mistakenly. In reality, he is a symbolic figure. 

Yet, he received a middle finger from the people of Mongolia, excluding of course the hardline fans of his party, the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), where he is from.

Zandanshatar G.

The second person who was awarded with the honor to receive a "middle finger" is the Speaker of the Parliament, Zandanshatar Gombojav. He is also from the MPP which is the ruling party now. The middle finger is the rating for his job as the Speaker and for the Parliament as a whole where the MPP represents the majority (62 seats of 76). 

The third person who is "lucky" to get this "middle finger award" was the Prime Minister of Mongolia, Oyun-erdene Luvsannamsrai, who is alumni of the Harvard Kennedy school (Wonder where he got the 70 thousand dollar tuition though. was he so rich?). Although he graduated a prestige school, he lacks experience and enough skills to run a government.

Oyun-erdene L.

Especially, his choices of people for important Government positions (ministers) has been not welcomed by the people. He picks people of very young ages for those positions which require not just a diploma of "western" education but lots of life experience and sufficient career background. In short, he hires "green horns" just because he or she graduated in the west and is  a member of his party. The consequences are fatal: his choices have been criticized by the public for their actions and decisions made. And laughed at. 

Overall, all three (and their party) have been harshly criticized for their actions, policies, and the results from them.  MPP is a former communist party, so there was nothing better to expect from it. Former communists cannot run the country, despite their claim becoming a social-democratic party. So, the new year 2023 will be a hard one for them, and I doubt if they can survive and hang on until the next election in 2024. Probably, they can, since they have become very rich in the past, so, money is the power, right? You can buy the poor people easily, for money, as they used to do in the past elections. We'll see.  

Is there any hope?

What is going on in Mongolia? Usual picture. Some tiny demonstrations and arrests of those who spoke ill of the Government. One of the publicly well-known persons named Ch.Munkhbayar has been arrested and locked up. He has been very critical of the Government's policies, especially of those related to China. 

Ridiculously he was prisoned on charges of spying against China! Never heard of a country which charges own citizen for spying against a third country. And this charge is not even legitimate. Another funny excuse from the former communists to shut up one of its opponents. Remind my reader that the former communist party is currently in power in Mongolia, thanks to the last fraud election results. 

This party, named Mongolian People's Party (they removed the word "Revolutionary" from its official name) has been ruling for over 20 years since 1992, but things gotten worse. They can't run a country. They claim to have become a Social-democratic party now, but you know, you better never trust the communists. 

What we need is a system change! Parliamentary form of Government does not suit us! We need to change it and choose the presidential form of Government. 

I think the choice depends on the culture, tradition and lifestyle of the people, whether to choose the parliamentary or the presidential form of government. Mongols are nomadic people in origin and tend to like to have more a sole leader as the "boss" than a group as ruler. We like to see a responsible leader who's head can be "cut off"  if things go wrong.  In parliamentary system there is no such a leader who can be held accountable in the end.

Our current system of governance (parliamentary form of government) has been used by ill-fated people who got into the Parliament at any cost, to enrich themselves and take advantage of  it only for their own good. The downside of this system- no one can be held responsible and accountable- has been used to avoid any charges yet do whatever they please to make profit, using their positions and influence on executive branch.

I believe that the parliamentary form of government is more suited to people who have a sedentary culture and a tradition to make decisions   collectively than being ruled by one leader. 

The question is only whether or not our  political parties (over 30 now) are willing to do it. The answer is no. They all swear that the current parliamentary form needs to be "improved" and "democratized". So there is no hope. The only hope is that the people understand it and fight for it. They need to flood the streets and demand that change. 

The question is, again, if the people can do it. By tradition our people have no experiences or knowledge of how to fill  streets.  It is about being consistent and accept sacrifices.  I think all this is too strange and foreign to us.  So there is no hope, again. Sad.

   

Mongolia is divided on Ukraine

Today's topic is Ukraine. Russia is attacking it's neighbor- Ukraine. The whole world is condemning the aggressor. Dictator-countries like North Korea, Syria, Eritrea and Belarus stand with the Russian. 141 countries voted against Russia at the UN. 

Russia says, they defend those Russians in Ukraine whom the Kyiv  regime treated as second class citizens and even killed many of them. There might be some truth in that claim, but the way Russia is handling it, is wrong. Totally wrong.

It's like Mongolia is attacking China with an excuse that minority ethnic Mongolians living in China suffer the same faith and treated the same way by the Han Chinese, like Russians living in Ukraine.  One of the minority groups in China- Mongolians have been treated so badly in their home territories. They have been jailed for speaking out, forcefully moved from their places, discriminated against and lastly, striped of rights to be taught some classes in their own language in schools. 

If Mongolia interferes and enters China to defend and protect Mongols living in China, China would not like it, and all hell will break loose. Mongolia is not capable of doing it anyway, someone might laugh. It is not about being capable of or not, it's about principles. Mongolia has no right to be involved in this issue.

Or another example:  Let's assume that Mongolia's Government  treats  the Kazakh minority so bad that they revolt. They even want to be independent and ask for help from neighboring Kazakhstan. And what should Kazakhstan do? Aid the revolting Kazakhs, or even enter Mongolia to conduct some "special operations"?  Hell, no! 

In both examples above, the victims are the minorities (Mongols, Kazakhs) who are happening to live in countries where the majority nationalities are different (culture, lifestyle, language etc) than those minorities. The same applies to those Russians living in Ukraine, to whom came Russian army to "protect and defend". 

In all these cases, this is a "domestic" issue, and any foreign country has no business to be involved in this matter. That is the principle, and it should be respected and followed by any power, no matter how big or small that power is. 

This suppression and discrimination problem should be addressed by any means other than a war or military conflict. The UN and other international bodies are invented for that, but one should admit that unfortunately they don't have the power as we wish, to fix such problems and keep the world in peace. 

Even so, big powers should refrain from using their "muscles" but instead must use their "brains". Russia's action is a  very bad model for "small fishes" and other powers. 

Now, let's talk about how this war affects Mongolia as a country and how Mongolians perceive it.  In general, this war affects us badly. As a country, we are "sanctioned" too. Why? We are a landlocked country, with only two neighbors: in south with China and in north with Russia. If Russia is sanctioned, any land and air connections with the West are cut off because everything goes   over Russian territories. Plus, Russians impose restrictions on products and foods exports to Mongolia. So, we have "sanctions" from both the West and the Russian Federation. What is left is China.

If Mongolians show support for Ukraine and condemn the war, Russia may become upset and stop supplying with energy and petroleum products. That would be the main concern, especially for those who support Russian action, although our official position on Ukraine-Russia issue has been neutral, with being one of the 35 countries abstained from UN vote on Ukraine. So, Mongolian citizens are divided.

Those who support Russia say that we should stand with Russia because Russia is our guarantee for independence, and because Russia insisted that Mongolia should be independent after WW2, persuaded the other powers to accept it. Especially, when China wanted to "keep" Mongolia (even though pre-PRC and non-Chinese empire was collapsed) claiming that Mongolia "belonged" to China. (Mongolia was never a part of China except they occupied for a short time in 1920's). 

There is a truth in there that Russia (or Soviet Union, to be precise) was the only power to speak for our independence, and we should be thankful for that, no matter what their intentions were.

Maybe they wanted a "buffer-state" between them and China and did not want to border with China directly in the south, who knows. Since then, Soviet Union and Mongolian People's Republic were close partners, and many Mongolians still have very deep sympathy towards Russians. 

The other part of Mongolians condemn Russia's action, and claiming that today's Russia is not the same we know back then, like Soviet Union. Russia has changed, we say. They are not friendly to us anymore , as they used to, even though there has been regime changes in both countries since 1990. Russia has become more "bully", so to speak. And that is proved by their action against Ukrainians who actually are their "relatives" by root with almost same culture and language! 

Anyways, that was a short view of how it looks like in Mongolia during this complicated times when the whole world seems to be affected as well by this Ukraine-Russia war. Hopefully, it ends soon and everything goes back to normal. Hope that Russia's President  Putin thinks twice before every decision  he makes. It is sad that Russia has ruined its reputation and made so many "enemies". Being isolated and feeling hostility from the world are not promising and healthy signs which will hurt Russia in the long run.    I don't think that Russian citizens would want  to have a "Robinson Crusoe type" of lifestyle in the future.    

What we gonna do?

What we need is a Presidential system!  We chose the wrong one. We can't go on with the current so called Parliamentary system any longer! Mongolia likes to brag to be a democratic country since 1990, right? Unfortunately, in reality it is not, but on paper, yes. Yeah, sure, Parliamentary system is a democratic system, but why is it not succeeding in our case? Two reasons: 

1. For Asian people, especially ones with nomadic culture and life style, the Presidential system suits much better than the Parliamentary one. They love to have and follow a leader.

2. It's too confusing for a nation which has  been poorly educated , especially with regard to different types of political systems, and this has been misused by immoral and greedy people, called politician. 

The Parliamentary system allows us to have: 

- so many (so far 35 parties registered) political parties which would divide the population.   A nation divided 35 times cannot go in one direction. 

- one President who is  just a symbol and does nothing but hand out awards and sign some orders, and has no power over Government. 

- one Prime minister who is in control of his victorious party which makes the majority in the Parliament. If he angers his own party MPs, and does not satisfy their wishes, he can be gone very soon. It happened many times.

- one Parliament which "sleeps" together with the Government in one bed, hence no separation of powers. Very weak one because even a pig can be chosen as candidate for an election  by his party if he donates enough money to his party.

- Judges who are picked by the President and the Parliament, hence they serve for their bosses, but not for justice. 

The result? No separation of powers and checks and balances. Misuse of power happens often. Passing a law to meet their personal needs and gain is also common. Corruption flourished. People are basically divided in two classes: poor and rich. By latest study it says 84% of the population is poor, 15% is in the middle, and 1% is rich. 

95% of all bank savings belong to only 5% of all  account holders who are the rich ones (oligarchy, politicians). Many  businessmen and businesswomen  became "politicians" because they smelled the opportunity to increase their profit by being in the power (to get a tender for large projects, or to influence others to get a favorable decision for his/her business, etc.). 

All this proves that our choice of Parliamentary system was wrong. Maybe it was not intentional at the beginning, but now, after 30 years of "experiment", we see the consequences. Poor voters don't know what is going on, and does nothing but being mad and frustrated. They  asking why we have to live so poor, but don't know the answer. They demand all kind of stuff from the President and blaming him for not doing a good job, because they don't know that the President has nothing to do with it. They should blame the Prime minister but many presume that  the President is the powerful one, mainly because of  above mentioned reason. They have something in mind that the President should be a powerful figure, like a King!  That is maybe a traditional mindset. 

The Mongols were powerful and flourished when they had one Leader. I don't think we want autocracy but we want to be clear in who is in charge, and we want a leader who is not some kind of party's boss. We want to choose our leader by ourselves. We want democracy and separation of powers. We want independent judges who are not  somebody's  pick. We don't want to be ruled by useless political parties. 

Divided Mongols always went down and were defeated, so we must be united, hence all these political parties should be thrown in the garbage can. Pig-headed party members would say, without a political party there is no way to run a country, but I think it should be. At least we should not have that many parties and if we can change the Constitution for Presidential system, then those parties will disappear like a weed because the Head of the Government (the President) will be chosen by the people, and by law, the President must  not be a party  member. 

Unfortunately, because of the reason Nr.2, it is difficult to persuade voters and make them fight for a change. Plus, the propaganda by those in power has always some influence on them. It is hard to make a change in such a situation like ours, with uneducated voters and many parties led by rich "gangsters". What is your suggestion to get out of this mud? Tell me. 

Racism - deal or no deal?

Let's talk. Straight and honest. I am an Asian and there's been lot of going on lately regarding the people of the same race as I am. As many of you may guess, I am talking  about hating Asians. I must say that hatred towards Asians did exist long before Covid pandemic, and it became only worse because of that pandemic. Now Asians are harassed, attacked and killed everywhere in the world. Even in a country like the USA where everybody is immigrant or descendants of immigrants, representing every race and skin color, except the natives, of course, things look far worse. In Europe and other continents Asians are facing the same problem. 

As rumors say, the native Americans actually came from Asia some thousands of years ago and settled down in America making it home. It is scientifically even proved that there is a genetic connection  between native Americans and Asians, a prove that a migration happened back then.  Check this out: Oldest genetic link

If we believe this (who doesn't believe in science but DT?) , people of Asian descent were the first one who set foot on this continent, and therefore have the right to be called as the first settlers. All others, whites and blacks, joined much later.

So, for whites or black folks who say to us "Go back home", I wanna say that we were here first, and you are the one who should  go back where you came from, be it Europe or Africa. I wanna say one thing to all black folks in the US: You shouldn't be hating us!  Asians didn't bring you guys to America as slaves and tortured you for centuries. Even today, think about who is discriminating you because of your skin color! Not us! So, why do you hate us? If you hate us, we will hate you back!  Is that what you guys want? Is it not enough to be treated like you used to be, by so called "superior white race" and you want turn us against you too? I want that every person of African descent read this and think about it, seriously.

As to white people, who think that they are "superior", I just want to say that nobody is "superior" to others. All three main races, or people of skin colors, have own deficiency and advantages. Let's see. Asians are of smaller physical built compared to other two races. The reason may be multiple:  food, environmental, lower bone mineral content, life style etc. I think the "bigger guys" from those three races are  the Africans. They are taller, and more muscular. The whites or so called "Caucasians" (or the Europeans) is in between. Of course, there are short and tall ones in every race, but  generally it is in that order.

"Small eyes" or as our white and black races love to call it as "slit eyes", is also one of the "reason" why our "friends" hate us. They like to mock a lot about it. Well, a small body needs a small eye, right? In proportion, you know what I mean?  Bigger bodies, bigger eyes. But then, bigger eyes have own weaknesses: they tend to collect more dirt, get "sick" easily, and can't see things far away. In short, big eyes = big problems.  They might look "cute" but it's just a look. What’s the use of “bigger” eyes if you can’t see far away?

Blacks tend to have more eye diseases compared to whites and Asians.

One other difference: Asians have bigger brain than Europeans and Africans. How can “whites” be “superior” if they have smaller brain compared to Asians? Larger brain contains more neurons and processes information more efficiently. The size? Asian brain was in average 1415 cubic centimeter (cc), European was 1362 cc, and African brain was 1268 cc in size.

No intelligent person can deny that this "superior" thing is a bullshit. As you can see, no race is "perfect." For Europeans (or Whites) who claim that White race is superior to others, let me give some facts which would prove that's not the case. The whites like to claim that they are/were the civilized race compared to others.

If you want to talk about the civilization, then  you should know that it started first in what is  today Middle eastern region, way back many thousands of years. And  there are three well- studied ancient civilization  like Egyptian, Indian and Chinese.  The most hated Chinese was  one of the four  oldest civilization of the world and has the longest continuous history with 3500 years of written history.

The white race was way far behind when Middle Eastern region flourished and the Chinese were busy inventing  gun powder, paper, compass etc. Read more here. The reason why the earliest civilizations became stagnant and fell behind the western civilization has many factors and this would be a great theme for a dissertation for anybody who deals with that kind of subject. So I wouldn't go into details about it because I am not an expert. My opinion is solely based on logic and my understanding. 

The western civilization started much later but had a steady forward moving and progressed to that point where it became the dominant one in the world. I am sure that early civilizations had significant influences on western civilization too.  Now that the western civilization has became the magnet for all others,  many people especially from not so developed or poor places, want to immigrate to those European countries and America,   where they are harassed, discriminated and labeled as uncivilized and trash, by the "superior" white race. Ironically and sadly, those who are the descendants of slaves, our African American friends, are  happily joining their former "white masters" to hate Asian people. How is that possible? Did they forget where they came from and what they went through? 

Now the Asian countries have overcome the stagnation and moving forward to compete with the West, successfully. Americans love Japanese cars and other products and China became the second largest economy of the world. Koreans, Singaporeans, Indians and others chasing after.

Mongolia is far behind being one of the super strong economies but we made a name in the world history as well. Do you know that the largest empire was the Great Mongolian Empire? It was the largest contiguous land empire in the world history.  Who doesn’t know the name Chinggis Khaan (well-known in the west by the wrong spelled name-Genghis khan)?

So, racism and hate will bring to nothing. Any person is not born as racist. Racist person is a product of that particular society and surrounding environment. Racist person is a home-made product. Any racist person, be it “white”, “black” or “yellow”, has become a racist thanks to his/her parents because his/her parents were racist. That means if you are speaking ill about others at home when your kids are present, your kids will do the same and become ones just like you when they grow up. 

“Thanks to” the COVID, home-made racists openly bully at schools and kindergartens just like their parents taught them. Asian kids and students are being harassed and bullied more than before the pandemic started. Every Asian kid is being “classified” as “Chinese” and blamed for COVID. Ironically in the US which is a new country made of immigrants, hatred is on the rise. 

Without putting a serious fight against racism, the humanity will suffer forever. We need to start with the youngsters and do something so that they can grow as real humans. Basic steps would be proper teaching at kindergartens and schools. Kids should know that they will succeed and be happy if they accept others and peacefully coexist with others. They need to be taught that every race is equal and peace is only possible if they love each other. These kind of philosophy can be taught by parents who are smart and intelligent, from the day one when kids start to crawl. 

This racism issue can be kept at the lowest level when we work successfully with our future generations no matter what color of skin we are. Racism is in every color. So everybody needs to think about it. Otherwise the world will be not a place to live peacefully side by side, but a hell which is not a place you want to be. We are on this only one planet and we don’t want it to be destroyed. Racism will destroy it in the long run, one way or the other, if we neglect this racism issue.

 

 

 

Why China wants to mess with the Mongols?

Recently it has become unruly in so called Inner Mongolia, now a part of China, officially called Inner Mongolian Autonomous region, located in the north of today's China, bordering proper Mongolia. For some readers who are not familiar with that term  "Inner Mongolia", here is a short explanation. This term comes from the Manchu empire time, known as Qing empire (1636-1912), when those semi-nomadic Manchu people built an empire including their homeland Manchuria, all of China, East Turkestan (now called Xinjiang), Mongolia, and Tibet. Because they managed to annex first the southern part of then Mongolia, they called this part of territory as "Inner" since it was "inside" the empire, and called the remaining part as "Outer" since it was "outside" the borders of Qing empire. Manchu rulers later managed to annex the "Outer Mongolia" too. Mongolian Empire was very weak at that time, divided basically in three parts (southern, northern and western) , fighting for the superior rule against each other, and that helped foreign power to swallow them one by one, first the southern part and then the northern part, little later the western part thus making all of Mongolia included in Manchu (Qing) empire.

Whatever is shown  with solid bright yellow color is the original homeland of the Chinese; everything else is occupied territories (East Turkestan is marked here as Tartary)

 

The Chinese revolution in 1911, known as Xinhai revolution, against the Manchu rule was successful and overthrew that empire, and the Republic of China was declared. Some people say Qing empire was a Chinese dynasty, but that is a lie. As you can see it was established by a foreign (Manchu) power and the Chinese people overthrew it after 266 years of suffering!  Today they are just too ashamed to acknowledge it. Having their capital city moved to Beijing, hiring many local Chinese to government positions, and using Chinese customs, systems and the language also, if necessary, makes that Qing empire  not "Chinese".

As many of you know, Khublai Khaan (Grandson of Great Chinggis Khan) had also his capital city moved to Beijing after Mongols invaded China. He was the King of the Mongol Empire and in 1279 he established Yuan Empire which consisted of present-day Mongolia, all of China, Tibet and Korea. But that was much earlier than when Manchu people established Qing (or Manchu) Empire as mentioned above. Some Chinese people also claim Yuan Empire as "Chinese" dynasty, and Khubilai Khan  as "Chinese" king. (Chinggis Khan and the following Mongol Kings (Khans) were "Chinese" as they were from the minority in China, they claim. LOL. There were no so called minorities in both societies, and nomadic and sedentary people lived separate, each one owned and lived on their land divided by the so called Great Chinese Wall which was built to mark the border and protect their territory from nomadic invasion from the north)

Anyways, so the origin of that term "Inner Mongolia" goes back to the Manchu Empire time.
We call it "Southern Mongolia" because it was the southern part of Mongolia. How it became a part of China and could not get annexed back to Mongolia, is a long story, so I leave it for later. 

Now, the ethnic Mongols living in their original homeland, which is today known as "Inner Mongolia", are having another problem caused by the Chinese government. Those native Mongols have been dealing with many issues for a long time and trying to stand up against any decisions made by Chinese government because those decisions  conflicted their interests. Even though the Chinese claim that they respect and support minority interests, in fact they suppress the minority, be it Mongols, Uighurs or Tibetans, by any means with a goal to "make them Chinese." Just like how they did with the Manchu people. Today Manchu people are totally "swallowed" by the Chinese, and Manchu language is disappeared from the Earth. Now you cannot find a single "pure-blood" Manchu person in Manchuria or in all of China. This is a fate which the Uighur people, Tibetans and Mongols in China are facing today. 

One of the methods the Chinese are using is to limit usage of the minority's native   language, slowly but surely, by teaching in Chinese language  at early ages in schools. Minority language (in this case: Mongolian)  will be pushed away at the end, and all school subjects will be taught in Chinese. Ones a child forgets the mother tongue, even though the parents speak and teach in their mother tongue at home, that child  will be surrounded by Chinese-dominant environment which would force him/her to  "become" Chinese. The next generation would be drawn more to Chinese assimilation and eventually the Chinese will reach their goal. In the future, the names like Mongolians, Tibetans, Uighur will be mentioned only in history books and their lands will be occupied only by the Chinese with those three ethnicities disappeared like the Manchu people.

So, the reason why the Chinese wants to mess with the Mongols is obvious. They are afraid of them! They don't like  to have somebody different to exist among them. They want their lands. They want to eliminate all the minority ethnicities so that they can have their territories. What the Chinese need is the lands and the rich mineral deposits underneath.

Since they cannot mass murder the minority, they think it is smart to introduce a tactic of "soft swallow." But they are not smart enough to foresee a back-fire.  The world is watching now how the Chinese treat the minority in China, and one day...one day they will pay for that. The world will retaliate one day. And China will suffer badly. That will be the consequences of the policy being implemented by the Chinese for some time now. At their hands now suffering Uighur people living in the province called Xinjiang and Tibetan people living in Tibet. Now it is Mongolians' turn. 

What they do against the minority's interest is what makes them being hated more and more by the rest of the world. This world is a big society consisted of all the nations, countries on this planet. Time is totally different today than it was back in times when Mongols ruled the half of then-known World. Today everybody is connected with others more or less, and depend on each others.  No one or no country can fight the World alone and become the boss. Even the so called "super powers" cannot rule the World. Why? Because the people have become  different! People's mind have become different. 

 

The Majority of all the people living on this planet will voice against any force, inhumanity and injustice. That is what the remaining rest should know.  By "the Rest" I meant the ones (be it a country, people, like-minded groups, organizations) who think different than the vast majority of the World population. If "the rest" does actually a bad thing and hurt others badly by force, they  will suffer gravely  at the end. in this case,  if Chinese Government bulldoze through their policy by force, then the whole country-China  and all Chinese people will endure  the pain. That means all the good-minded Chinese people will be the victims as well. That would be an inevitable  tragedy. What I feel is that today the majority of the Chinese citizens  have been brainwashed and taught to believe it is right what their Government has been  doing. Well, that is what communist or fascist regimes are good at. At brainwashing.

 

China is feeling so powerful now that they think they  can do whatever they  want. Despite the fact that they are being hated by the majority of the world, they are determined to finish what they started. They think that with lots of money they can buy "love" and "friendship",  but they should know whatever is not genuine and not right will not last too long. In the long run they will be the  outsider, hated by everybody and eventually will be ruined. So, the intention of the Chinese government is clear, but the question is, would the Chinese people want this? Will they be still supportive of their government to suppress the minorities and erase them from the Earth so that they can enjoy more lands and treasure? For the price being hated by the World and eventually become an outsider, and loser? What use then will be the occupied lands and accumulated money for them? Or will they stand up against the wrong policy and save their existence. The time will answer those questions. 

  

Dr. Yang Jianli

 Down below I copied an article about the problem in Inner Mongolia caused by the Chinese Communist Party's  policy, written by two Chinese who belong definitely to the "World majority." 

 

Their names are Jianli Yang (Founder and President of Citizen Power Initiatives for China) and Lianchao Han (Vice President of Citizen Power for China). The Washington Times published their article, dated 9/29/2020. 

 

China's war against the Mongolian language

 

Lately, there have been news reports regarding protests in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in the north of China, over the introduction of a "bilingual" education system in elementary and middle schools of the region. Under this system, from the new academic year that started on Sept.1, 2020, Chinese would be the medium of instruction for some specific subjects. It is feared that eventually Mongolian-medium [Mongolian language] will be completely replaced with Chinese-medium teaching across all school subjects, and the Mongolian language will be wiped out.

 

Ethnic Mongols consider this move by the Chinese Communist Party-led central government as the final nail in the coffin toward burying their ethnic identity.

Since China took over the regions of southern Mongolia after WW2 and gave it the Sino-centric name - "Inner Mongolia", it has been steadily and institutionally eroding Mongolian culture and forcing Mongolians to adopt Chinese culture.

Due to decades of Han migration and intermarriage into Inner Mongolia, ethnic Mongolians have become a minority in their own land, accounting for only about 17% of Inner Mongolia's population of 24 million.

 

Basically herders by tradition, even their pastoral culture has been lost as they have been relocated from their homes on the prairies into new housing complexes in towns. While it is being done in the name of alleviating poverty and easing overgrazing, in reality it is to exploit the rich coal mine reserves in the region.

All that is now remaining of the Mongol ethnic identity is their language, which has a unique script that is no longer used even in independent Mongolia, where Cyrillic script has been adopted due to Russian influence. Since even that has now come under a cloud, it is feared that the entire identity of the Mongol people would be erased. They face the same fate as the Tibetans and the Uyghurs  in President Xi Jinping's China.

The Chinese government has been running the program of assimilation in a carefully designed and well-planned way to create a homogeneous society of Chinese people with Han culture.

But do the Han Chinese even have the right to stake a claim over the Mongolian people and their land, let alone usurp their entire identity? The answer is a big "No." And there is historical and literally "unshakeable" evidence for that. 

It is nothing less than the Great Wall of China itself.

The iconic symbol of the Chinese civilization-the Great Wall of China- was built in the first place,and rebuilt, extended and further fortified over centuries by different dynastic rulers of China for a purpose to keep away the "barbarians" (referred to as "Yi" in Chinese) who came from the north. These so-called barbarians who led a nomadic life, were considered to be too "uncivilized" by the Han Chinese rulers to be allowed to enter their civilization.

Thus, the Great Wall of China was built as the northern frontier or boundary of China. And the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of today lay beyond this historic northern boundary wall.

 

In other words, from the time the first unified Empire of China was established by Qin Shihuang in 247 BCE, until the end of the Song dynasty in 1279, the pastoral lands of the Mongolian region and the nomadic people who inhabited there were never a part of the Chinese Empire. The Han Chinese civilization was for centuries centered around and limited to the agricultural area in the southeastern part of present-day China.

 

Interestingly, it was only in 1279, when Kublai Khan, the grandson of the Great Mongolian leader and warrior Chinggis Khan, overthrew the Song Emperor and established  the Mongol Yuan dynasty that the land and people of proper China and Mongolia came together under a common rule. And it was the Mongol rule, not Chinese. So, technically, it was not Mongolia which was a part of China, but China which became a part of the Mongol Empire that spread far and wide encompassing even Eurasia. In fact, even Beijing was made the capital of China for the first time by the Mongol rulers. 

 

Based on these historic facts, the CCP's claim that Mongolia is a part of China since immemorial time is questionable. In any case, the Mongolian people of the so-called Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, which is under the rule of the People's Republic of China as an outcome of the World War 2 and the CCP victory in the issuing civil war, deserve every right to preserve their cultural identity and resist cultural genocide.

 

Yet,so far in the past three decades, the Mongolian minority in China has been rather accommodating and coexisting relatively peacefully with Han Chinese.

Other than an episode in 2011, when they protested over the killing of a Mongolian herdsman by a mining truck, they have caused little trouble to the Chinese leadership.

But, why is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership now antagonizing them further and pushing them to the wall, which seems inviting trouble for itself? The only explanation is that the move is part of a larger campaign to impose cultural conformity  by sinicizing any non-Han cultural identities existing within the boundary of the People's Republic of China, including minority religions and languages.

The story of Mongolians is underreported by the international media, and therefore less well-known internationally than what is happening to China's other minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet. Nonetheless, what happens in Inner (or Southern) Mongolia is also a cultural genocide, the CCP's attempt to destroy a proud culture in the name of "Sinicization." It should not be left alone.

 

Read the article HERE

 

The World is noticing what now is happening in Inner Mongolia. Regarding this topic, Taipei Times has also an article published, written by Paul Lin, dated Sept.25, 2020. (page 8)

 

Mongolia might be Xi's next target  

 

by Paul Lin

 

Late last month, Beijing introduced changes to school curricula in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, requiring certain subjects to be taught in Mandarin rather than Mongolian.

What is Chinese President Xi Jinping seeking to gain from sending this message of pernicious intent? It is possible that he is attempting cultural genocide in Inner Mongolia, but does Xi also have the same plan for the democratic, independent nation of Mongolia?

 

The controversy emerged with the announcement by the Inner Mongolia Education Bureau o the case.n Aug. 26 that first-grade elementary school and junior-high students would in certain subjects start learning with Chinese-language textbooks, as opposed to starting in the second grade, as was previously previously the case.

To appease the strong pushback, a second announcement was made, saying that no further changes would be introduced. 

However, the decision to stop using Mongolian to teach first-grade elementary school children had already set the cat among the pigeons, and people were worried that the changes were the thin end of the wedge, with others likely to follow. 

One of the more disingenuous answers to criticism was that "the design of the teaching materials is at the discretion of the state." 

The Bureau also said that the introduction of unified textbooks was according to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy to reinforce the adaption of a common writing system in ethnic minority regions.

This was reminiscent of the mayor of Wuhan passing the buck to the central authorities for the COVID-19 pandemic, absolving himself of responsibility. 

The Inner Mongolia incident during the Cultural Revolution left tens of thousands of people dead, or mutilated and disabled. The incident also left permanent psychological scars on the Inner Mongolian public, and the latest initiative has touched a real nerve.

In the past few weeks, 300 thousand students have taken to the streets, joined by parents, public officials, and employees of Inner Mongolia Radio and Television. 

While several mid-level CCP cadres were sacked because of their opposition to the new policy, some avid support for protesters came from public officials. Presumably, the demonstrations also enjoyed a degree of tacit approval from more senior figures.

Former Inner Mongolian communist leader Ulanhu, who served as Chinese vice premier from 1983 to 1988, had joined the CCP in 1925. Inner Mongolia Chairwoman Bu Xiaolin is his granddaughter. Inner Mongolia CCP Secretary Shi Taifeng is an academic who has served as vice president of the CCP's Central Party School in Beijing.

Xi trusts neither Bu nor Shi, and on Aug.29 dispatched Chinese Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi to the region to suppress the protests with armored vehicles and bounties for informants that have led to the detention of 130 protesters. 

Xi's "national rejuvenation" is hitting walls all over, and he dare not attack Taiwan while it is being offered military support by the US.

 

In Xi's mind, Mongolia is a soft target. Inner Mongolia has a population of about 6 million, while Mongolia only has 3 million.

For Xi, these statistics make it an attractive candidate for annexation. As part of his plan to recover territory previously lost, he can claim that Mongol Empire founder Genghis Khan was also a honorary Chinese, and his territory is thus "an inalienable part of China."

The topography of landlocked Mongolia would make it difficult for the US to intervene militarily. The US would also have to deal with being caught in between Russia and China if it became embroiled there. 

Mongolian independence was bought with money and weapons from Republic of China (ROC) founder Sun Yat-sen and the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai-shek did not dare thrust his oar into the situation, but the Chinese communists, including Mao Zedong himself, were consistently supportive.

On Feb.27, Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga traveled to Beijing, disregarding the risk of catching COVID-19, to present 30 thousand Mongolian sheep to Xi. After Battulga's return, and his mandatory 14 day quarantine, the Mongolian government passed a law stipulating that the country would within five years reinstate the use of the traditional Mongolian script in its schools, replacing the Cyrillic writing system used during the Soviet era.

Clearly, Battulga had visited China to show good intent, but must have been surprised to see Xi so callously moving forward to abolish the use of the Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia.

Beijing's lack of good faith has moved Mongolians to take the streets of Ulan Bator, despite calls for caution on the matter by the Mongolian government, which has not made an official statement on its curricula changes.

It is cautious because Beijing has claimed that protests in Inner Mongolia have been sparked by interference from abroad - a possible pretext for military intervention in Mongolia.

While Russia has supported Mongolia in the past, this latest move at "de-Russification" might mean that Mongolia will not necessarily be able to rely on support from Moscow.

Anyone concerned about regional stability should watch closely how this situation develops. In Taiwan, where does the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), which still adheres to "begonia China" - the shape of the historic pre-World war 2 China, prior to Mongolian independence - stand on this issue? Does the KMT agree with Xi?

 

Let me make some notes to clarify some misleading things said in  this article above:

 

It says, 

 
"Mongolian independence was bought with money and weapons from Republic of China (ROC) founder Sun Yat-sen and the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai-shek did not dare thrust his oar into the situation, but the Chinese communists, including Mao Zedong himself, were consistently supportive."

 

First of all, readers must know that today there are 2 subjects calling themselves as China: People's Republic of China (PRC-usually called China) and Republic of China (ROC-usually called Taiwan). Communist China (PRC) and nationalist China (ROC). How did it happen? Well, one can find  enough information online about their history, so here is a brief explanation.

 

- As I mentioned earlier, when the  Manchu empire (aka Qing dynasty) was overthrown as a result of Chinese uprising in 1911, and the countries "belonged" to that empire, like China, Mongolia and Tibet have declared the independence. 

 

- Chinese nationalists  declared Republic of China  (ROC).

 

- Divided already during the Manchu rule in 2 parts, Inner and Outer Mongolia, two Mongolia could not be reunited due to conflicts among Inner Mongolian nobles.

 

- Outer Mongolia declared the independence. 

 

- Inner Mongolian princes were forced and/or  persuaded to recognize Republic of China thus making Inner Mongolia  to become part of ROC.

 

- In 1915, four years after declaring independence from Manchu empire, Russia and  China have forced Mongolia to sign a treaty making it an autonomous region of the ROC.

 

- In 1919, Chinese troops entered outer Mongolia and has forced the Mongolian government to sign another agreement to abolish its autonomy.

 

- In 1921 Mongolians defeated Chinese troops with Soviet help and declared its independence once again.

- Chinese nationalists ruled China under the name of ROC until 1949 when they lost a civil war to Chinese communists who forced the nationalists to leave the mainland China and move to an island named Formosa (now called Taiwan).

 

- Chinese communists  won the civil war and had all mainland under their control, and starting 1949, China is officially named as PRC.

- Chinese nationalists kept the name Republic of China (ROC), and built a new country on that island which known now as Taiwan.

- Interestingly, ROC represented China at the UN until 1971 before that seat was taken by PRC. ROC voted against Mongolia when Mongolia became a member of the UN in 1961.

 

- PRC was officially admitted as a UN-member in 1971 and it was recognized by the US only in 1979.

So, by the end of the WW2 (1945) China was the ROC. They recognized Mongolia's independence officially in 1946. They opposed it fiercely but had no choice to give up. ROC was also the only opposition when Mongolia was admitted as an UN-member. 

 

It is unclear what the author of that article meant by buying the independence with money and weapon. What is known is that Soviets were firm on Mongolia's independence and persisted that other "super powers" accept it too. 

 

So, Mongolia's fate was decided after WW2, with help from the Soviets. ROC and PRC might have not liked it but hell, Mongolians never accepted any agreement which signed by own corrupt nobles and rulers, selling their independence. So, whatever agreement it was, it's just a paper. An agreement must be agreed by the signing parties freely and without force, so in that logic whatever the Chinese and Russian have forced Mongolians to sign the so called treaties  in 1915 and 1919 has no ground and not valid. 

Today's claim by the PRC or ROC, stating that Mongolia should be part of China is a BS. Nowadays, some professors from some higher educational institutes  brainwash their students with the idea that China should annex Mongolia sooner or later based on the treaties mentioned above. They even say that Mongolia was part of China before those treaties were signed, but like I explained earlier, Mongolia was occupied by Manchu ruler who founded a big empire consisted of countries shown on the map above. So, again, Manchu empire was not "Chinese."

Shame on them to claim somebody else's "achievement."!

 

Yes, the times when Manchu people ruled China should be part of the  Chinese history because China was a part of it, but claiming the history as its  own and making it as own is ridiculous. Mongolia's history also includes times when Manchus ruled Mongolia.

 

So, talking about "buying independence" smells like typical PRC/ROC brainwashing  and as I mentioned in one of my earlier post, if the ROC (Taiwanese) Constitution still states that Mongolia is part of ROC (along with the mainland China) then it should not be a surprise to read such an article published  in Taiwan's media.

Besides, the Washington Times article given above  says it all.

One recent incident proves again China's ambitions to bully the world and dictate their will: They want to eradicate anything related to Mongols' history and brainwash westerners with their own distorted version of history. Well, westerners are not so dumb to buy Chinese  Quatsch, so the French museum will  show the "Genghis Khan" exhibition anyway, without making any changes as the Chinese demanded.

It will probably take some time to open it since the Chinese side (the French side partnered with Inner Mongolian museum. Han Chinese dictate in Inner Mongolia, remember?) pulls out of that project and the French museum will have to work on some adjustments as to replace some collections and objects. 

More on this incident, read HERE.

Lastly, few more words to my reader who value humanity, honesty and harmony.

The World is the ONE place where everybody, be it white, black or yellow skinned, has to live side by side. There is no other place to go. Do you remember that I mentioned earlier about the "World majority" and "the Rest" ? 

Who would want to see somebody to become a "Boss" and dictate  others? I am positive that the World majority is against any bully Boss to rule the World. Now it is 21st century, not 13th. Time's changed. 

Sadly, the World majority has been very passive and tolerant for too long. UN has become a tool of very little use to fight against the Rest, and maybe also got corrupt too. So, only hope is the Majority action. The Majority needs to act now.  Everybody who think he/she belongs to that group should act on their own whenever possible using every tool available. That French museum belongs to the Majority and acted accordingly. Bravo! Mercy beaucoup, Monsieur! 

It shouldn't be necessary for the Majority to come together in person and fight the Rest; it is enough when every member of the Majority let hear own voice loud and stand own ground.  If we can, the Rest has no chance to succeed. 

In that particular case, China plays a member of the Rest, trying to bully others and dominate the World. They even trying to revise the past and  attempting to forge everything for own benefit. Now they attack openly the minorities (Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols) with a clear intention to do harm, but the Majority remains silent.  That inactivity will only encourage the Rest and sooner or later you will be dealing with a "Rat" grown to big to be taken down. Someday, this Rat will be under your basement and nestle down, only to sink your home slowly but surely.

So be aware, and be heard! Let your voice hear all over, by any measure possible!