This video is by Eric Hovagim an up and coming Tankie “reporter” and in his video he even unironically leans into China is just doing a “combatting terrorism”, just like the US gov does, amongs other things to justify chinas various human rights abuses.
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Take your pick:
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/cultural-erasure/
https://thehuman-rights.com/uyghurs-china-systematic-detention-cultural-erasure/
https://apnews.com/article/china-uyghur-banned-songs-xinjiang-f63ad27225ab1fc021c8d8949ca799c4
https://uyghurtimes.com/china-launches-new-wave-of-uyghur-cultural-erasure-after-ethnic-unity-law/
https://uyghurtimes.com/one-of-urumqis-iconic-uyghur-structures-demolished-amid-escalating-ethnic-unity-campaign/
https://www.uygurnews.com/tag/urumqi/
https://turkistanpress.com/en/page/uyghur-culture-being-erased-as-beijing-tightens-grip-on-east-turkistan-15-years-after-urumqi-riots/1704
They’re doing it in Tibet too:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/04/china-harmonization-plan-erasing-tibetan-language
https://europeantimes.org/tibets-identity-disappearing-under-chinas-cultural-pogroms/
https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2025/05/29/learning-to-forget-chinas-dismantling-of-tibets-education-and-culture/
https://www.thenarrativeworld.in/Encyc/2025/12/15/systematic-erasure-of-identity-how-china-is-dismantling-tibetan-education.html
And in Inner Mongolia:
https://pen.org/report/inner-mongolia-china-repression/
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/northern-frontier-culture-how-china-is-erasing-mongolia-from-mongolian-culture/
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/china-accused-of-erasing-mongolian-culture-online
https://www.sentinelassam.com/more-news/international/china-accused-of-systematically-suppressing-mongolian-culture-report
It’s all part of one overarching strategy they call “Cultural Unification” (pronounced: cultural erasure and forced assimilation).
So not a single chinese source, as requested. Just majority NED publications.
Are you lost? .ml is that way 🫵
Also, you misread the previous comment. They said they wished they had a proper Chinese source; i.e., because all Chinese sources are state propaganda. They’re not allowed to report on it.
I provided them with a variety of reputable sources, including non-western, non-chinese ones.
Are you suggesting the only sources we can acknowledge are the ones sponsored by the PRC?