Perhaps you should research the term ‘Autonomous Chinese Province’ with respect to regional boundaries in China. That would seem to make these regions of China a ‘Republic’ as in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Statehood is more than just a political boundary. Being a Republic is no guarantee of anything related to the term ‘democracy’. But making broad accusations of what is happening in China without actually knowing what is truly happening in China is certainly not conducive to intelligent discourse.
The situation regarding the Uyghur population in China is a lot more nuanced than ‘they are trampled on by China’. There is a lot more to the Uyghur narrative than the one driven by the Chinese response to a minority of Uyghur Islamic Terrorists within the general Uyghur population, yet the Western media goes no further than the popular mischaracterization of painting all Uyghurs in general with the same ‘oppressed population’ brush.
Perhaps you should research the term ‘Autonomous Chinese Province’ with respect to regional boundaries in China. That would seem to make these regions of China a ‘Republic’ as in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Statehood is more than just a political boundary. Being a Republic is no guarantee of anything related to the term ‘democracy’. But making broad accusations of what is happening in China without actually knowing what is truly happening in China is certainly not conducive to intelligent discourse.
The situation regarding the Uyghur population in China is a lot more nuanced than ‘they are trampled on by China’. There is a lot more to the Uyghur narrative than the one driven by the Chinese response to a minority of Uyghur Islamic Terrorists within the general Uyghur population, yet the Western media goes no further than the popular mischaracterization of painting all Uyghurs in general with the same ‘oppressed population’ brush.