Chinese State Policies Towards Tibet And Xinjiang:Why Not The Hong Kong Scenario?
Chinese State Policies Towards Tibet And Xinjiang:Why Not The Hong Kong Scenario?

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates what influences a state’s choice of methods to resolve its territorial integrity issues and China’s strategies towards Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong in particular (or, to be more specific, what causes the differences between these strategies). Chinese state policies in four areas — political, economic, cultural and foreign policy — are compared to reveal what the differences between the Chinese approaches towards the three regions are, and a framework of analysis based on a modification of Milton Esman’s theory is developed and applied to define how the selected factors influence China’s policies towards the three regions and which of them were the ones determining the PRC’s choice of different methods.

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