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Mandarin Chinese

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Regions northern
southwestern China
Chinese
Native speakers910 million (2015); 200 million L2 (no date)
Standard forms Chinese
Early forms Chinese
Middle Chinese
Language familySino-Tibetan languages
Sinitic languages
Writing systems Chinese characters
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About Mandarin Chinese


Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.

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Protests demanding Uyghurs have freedom, is happening throughout the year

The told US, it is Visa impose restrictions on Chinese officials of involvement in the oppression of the Muslim population accused.

It Follows the decision on Monday to blacklist 28 Chinese organisations linked by the US to the allegations of abuse in the Xinjiang region.

U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo , said the Chinese government had introduced "a highly repressive campaign".

China dismissed the accusations as unfounded.

Mr. Pompeo accused the Chinese government of a string of abuses against Uighurs and ethnic Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Muslims and other minority Muslim groups.

the included "mass incarceration in the internment camp, pervasive, high-tech surveillance, draconian controls expression of the cultural and religious identities; and back forced of individuals from foreign countries to a dangerous destiny in China".

China has rebuffed that moves US.

"There is no such thing as these so-called "Human Rights ", as claimed by the United States ," foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Monday .

"These accusations are Nothing More than a pretext for the United States to disrupt conscious of China's Internal Affairs . "

Visa restrictions are imposed on the Chinese government and Communist party officials, as well as their families.

"The United States calls on the people's Republic of China, immediately its campaign of repression in Xinjiang, release all those arbitrarily arrested, and to stop, to force the efforts, members of the Muslim Chinese minority groups resident abroad, to China, to return to an uncertain fate," the US statement.

The U.S. and China are currently embroiled in a trade war, and sent delegations to Washington for a conference on the tensions later This Week .

What is The Situation in Xinjiang is?

in China, the implementation of a massive security measures in Xinjiang in the far West, in the last years.

Human Rights organisations and the UN say that China has rounded up and detained, to refrain from More Than a million Uighurs and other Ethnic Minorities , which are stored in large internment, where they are forced on you, the Islam, to speak only in Mandarin Chinese and to learn obedience to The Communist government.

But China says, you are in the "vocational training centres", the them jobs and help them integrate into the Chinese society, in the name of preventing terrorism.

vocal were increasingly denunciations from the U.S. and other countries about China's actions in Xinjiang.

last week in a press conference in the Vatican.

And In July , China criticized the treatment of the Uighurs and other Muslims.

Who are the Uighurs?

Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims. They Make Up about 45% of Xinjiang region's population; 40% are Han Chinese .

China control in 1949, produced after crushing short-lived state of East Turkestan.

Since then, it has mass immigration of Han Chinese Uighurs fear erosion of their culture.

Xinjiang is officially an Autonomous region within China like Tibet in the South.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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