Activists representing communities facing ethnic cleansing and genocide under the Chinese Communist Party urged Congress during an event on Monday not just to oppose China’s human rights abuses, but identify their communities as sovereign nations colonized under an imperial Chinese state.

Among those speaking were representatives of the regions of Tibet, East Turkistan, and Southern Mongolia, which the Chinese Communist Party has colonized and refers to as “Xizang,” “Xinjiang,” and “ bei jiang wenhua ,” respectively. The Chinese government regularly attempts to rename land under its control — and land it wants to control but is not part of…

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