Cultural Erasure: Southern Mongolia and China’s Assimilation Strategy

For nearly eight decades, the Chinese state—and tens of millions of ordinary Chinese settlers acting alongside it—has pursued a relentless settler-colonial project in Southern Mongolia, with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) renaming the Mongolian homeland as ‘Inner Mongolia’. What is now unfolding under the cultural-genocide policies launched in 2020 is not a new development, […]