Clouded yellow: China.(racism in China)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 8, 1995 | Copyright information

China maintains policies that discriminate against minorities who live in China and foreigners of non-Chinese ancestry. Official policy is to maintain the power of the Han Chinese at the expense of Manchu, Mongols and Tibetans. Even Chinese-Americans are not safe from illegal imprisonment.

RACISM, said Zhao Ziyang bare-facedly in 1988, when he was general secretary of the Communist Party, is common "everywhere in the world except China". Not many can have believed him, even before ...

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