This chapter explores how China is utilizing the UNESCO World Heritage sites to establish legitimacy over regions with large ethnic minorities, such as Tibet, Inner Mongolia, North Korea's border, and Xinjiang. It discusses China's submission of detailed documents to UNESCO, portraying these regions as historically and culturally Chinese while downplaying the presence and significance of ethnic minorities like the Uighurs.
Many of the pieces are in place to bring the disease entirely under control—but our correspondent finds it will take more than advances in medication. Japan’s government has at last begun to regulate the country’s notorious pornography; we examine a sector emerging from the shadows (11:07). And how China uses UNESCO world-heritage status to rewrite the history of its periphery (18:38).
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