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Originally Posted by Tunicates are Mad

No they dont.

The idea (in the mind of someone that is 'Chinese')that Mongolia is China, or that Tibet is China is only the result of long-standing assimilationism that the Chinese have used for eons.
China itself only came into being after Gengis Kahn united it by imposing a burocratic system of governance, and from there on China was limited only by geography. You might as well call it all Mongolia.

The fact that China was asked to help Tibet fight off a Mongolian invasion or that the Chinese have imposed rule on Tibet at various times is in no way a reason for them to claim that Tibet is Chinese or should remain so. You might as well argue that as Britain was taken over by Normans in the past we might as well be governed by France now.

we're not?