Comments by "Good Citizen" (@GoodCitizen-gm1tl) on "Little Chinese Everywhere"
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Xinjiang was not a land of Uyghurs alone, there were many races and ethnicities living in Xinjiang, e.g. Han, Hui, Kazak, Tajik, Tatar, Xibo (derived from Manchu), Mongolian....etc. Traditionally (in the last 500 years, as the demographics in Xinjiang was always changing as the territory changed hands all the time in prior ages), the Uyghurs were living in South of the Taklamakan Desert or Southern Xinjiang and the Dzungar (Oriat branch of Mongols) were living in Northern Xinjiang. The Dzungar enslaved the Uygurs by constant invasions and conquest wars. Then the expansionism of the Dzungar threatened the Qing dynasty of China and China had many wars with the Dzungar for three generations of Qing emperors. At that time, most of the Mongolian branches were already living under the Qing empire but they were fragmented. The Qing intentionally reinforced the fragmentation of the Mongolian branches so that they couldn't unite into a single force which the Qing deemed as a grave threat considering the Mongol Yuan dynasty as a historical lesson.
As the Dzungar grew weaker and weaker and the Qing eradicated them from Northern Xinjiang altogether. Later, Russia was also looking to expand into Xinjiang. The Qing defeated Russia in Xinjiang and secured its sovereignty over this land. China named the province "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" which is a misnomer, because it is made as if the land is Uyghur only when there are so many races and ethnicities living there, although Uyghur is the largest group making up 44.96% of the total population, Han Chinese also makes up 42.24%, Kazak 5.15%, Hui 3.96%,Mongolian 0.84%...as per the 2020 China Population Nationwide Census.
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