> Let's not sugar coat this, the CCP is engaging in systematic ethnic cleansing.
They haven't been doing it and they're not going to do that. Why?
1. Ethnic cleansing (akin to what we see in Yugoslavia & WWII) just isn't a tool Chinese have used historically.
2. Unlike say the Nazis, the CCP does not see the problem mainly as race & genetics. The issue in their eyes is culture and behavior.
3. They have something else that's been proven to work in places like Mongolia. There's no official name for it but a faculty member from GaTech's International Affairs school has called it "reverse genocide".
What is "reverse genocide"? It's not as harsh as the name sounds. It's basically just a really aggressive form of assimilation. Here's a high level view of what happens:
1. Encourage Han Chinese to relocate to the areas that need to be changed with incentives. They will soon become the majority. The region's culture will become Han Chinese in a decade or less.
2. Encourage Han Chinese to intermarry with the native people. This is actually easy to do. Han males tend to be financially more well off then than native counterparts, and there is a huge gender disparity so no one cares as much when their sons marry someone who isn't Han. Their children and their families become Han and are treated as such. Any trace of the old native culture is just wiped out in 1-2 generations within these families.
Wash, rinse and repeat. 1 & 2 are ideal because there's nothing really horrible to criticize because it's subtle and it's highly effective.
For places like Xinjiang, where both 1 & 2 are not as effective initially, they implement the re-education tactics that we've read in articles such as the one posted. I'm going to guess that maybe 1 & 2 gets easier to do as well over time.