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I think there's a subtle distinction there. Communist regimes are often willing to exploit ethnic tensions in order to gain power, granting power to loyal ethnic groups and cleansing disloyal ones. That shouldn't be mistaken for loyalty to the preferred ethnic group though. Loyalty only goes one way in communism: Towards the leader. The leader is free to purge loyal groups if he considers it convenient.
I don't think the loyalty of the regime is the important part of this equation. If you have close to half a billion people who believe they are the same and share a collective fate, then they will act in their collective interest. The CCP just happens to be very good at conflating the party's interest with the people's. To the extent where they legitimately support the persecution of Uyghurs.
I don't think the loyalty of the regime is the important part of this equation.
It is. Communist regimes are loyal only to their ruling elite. If an ethnic group grants them power then they'll keep that group around and give them preferential treatment. The moment that ceases to be the case they'll turn on them, because they have no core ethnic loyalty. A good example of this would be in the last days of the Ceaucescu regime when either he or his wife ordered the military to begin randomly assassinating ethnic romanians in order to scare them back into line.
If you have close to half a billion people who believe they are the same and share a collective fate, then they will act in their collective interest. The CCP just happens to be very good at conflating the party's interest with the people's. To the extent where they legitimately support the persecution of Uyghurs.
And that's fine as long as those two interests run side by side. The moment they don't Tiananmen square happens and you end up having to clean ethnic-han-mincemeat off your tank treads.
It isn't a question of preferential treatment you silly goose? Try to apply for Chinese citizenship without being ethnically Han Chinese. By their standards, you probably don't cut it, and those are the standards that matter. Kill as many ethnic Han as you want if being Han is still a prerequisite for citizenship it's an ethnostate. Tiananmen isn't germane to the question.
To the extent where they legitimately support the persecution of Uyghurs.
Uh, don't you?
I honestly don't care one way or another. I don't live in China, I'm not Chinese.
How boomerish and retarded does one actually have to be, to believe that modern day China is "communist" in anything but name?
Sorry, notrealsocialist regimes.
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