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Police in one Inner Mongolia city published photos of 90 people who joined protests against Mandarin-language education policies. The photos appeared to be taken from surveillance-camera footage. “The police will thoroughly investigate them all."
@evawxiao on.wsj.com/3hV2rRh

@evawxiao "In response to the civil unrest and boycotting of classes this past week, the local government also instructed cadres to discipline those who spread rumors, especially those with 'inappropriate views' of the central government."
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@evawxiao “Our ethnic language will slowly disappear—parents are worried about this,” said one woman whose daughter is starting third grade. In Inner Mongolia, which is one-sixth ethnic Mongolian, children already pick up Mandarin via TV and daily life, she said.
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@evawxiao “China’s ethnic minorities do not have the power to protect their own culture.” “I am Chinese, I am Mongolian, you can take anything from me except my mother language. Without language, I cannot say that I am Mongolian.”
@evawxiao
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@evawxiao The former president of Mongolia has come out in support of the Inner Mongolia protests: "We need to voice our support for Mongolians striving to preserve their mother tongue and scripture in China."
bit.ly/3bmauUN

@evawxiao Mongolia's current president has also sent an oblique message of support, reciting a poem by a Mongolian from China and emphasizing the connections between Mongolian language and Mongolian identity.
@jdierkes bit.ly/3lOigM3