Separatism in Manchuria and other Chinese regions

For such a big nation, China seems lacking in the separatist department. Certainly the repressive government doesn't lend itself to such a phenomenon, but surely there could be outlaw dissident groups. So how come there isn't a Manchurian secessionist group? I know the Han dominate the province, but that's quickly happening to Tibet and Xinjiang, so.
 
I suppose because its treated roundly the same as any other Chinese Province. If they were treated unjustly there would be more cause for revolt. But they seem to be treated just like every other area of China, except Tibet and Turkestan of course.
 
Also, not only is there a proportionally bigger Han population, but even the ethnic Manchus are pretty Han-ified, and don't have as strong of an independent cultural identity as Tibetans or Uighurs. As far as I know, they don't have their own particular religion, and Manchu is pretty much a dead language -- if it weren't for PRC laws mandating the use of the Manchu alphabet as a symbol of cultural tolerance, nobody would actually use it.
 
Maybe you could stir up some trouble in the southwest, in Yunnan perhaps? Some of the smaller ethnic groups there could agitate for independence, perhaps backed by some outside financier running guns and money through Burma.
 
There aren't any separatist groups because everyone knows that China will grow larger either way, destroying whatever small progress to independence they may have made. :D In all seriousness, there are so many Han people that they can just move some people around to wherever they want and it becomes sturdily Chinese. Also, such separate ethnic identities seem to mostly be a rural, not-very-modern thing so it simply seems to make more sense to stay a part of China, so long as that China is still stable to some degree.

If you want various groups to break off and form their own real states, you have to get the tendency for strong Han centralism to die off or really fail hard. A prolonged Japanese occupation or more aggressive Western quasi-colonization efforts could achieve this effect, but China, as a very large nation, seems to be hard to "keep down" insofar that it struggles to determine its own path, which has always favored authoritarianism.
 
The Zhuangs could secede if they are given motivation to do so.

Sure, you can also make the German-Americans in the Midwest to secede and proclaim a neo-Nazi state if they are given motivation to do so. Or the Pakistanis in Bradford to secede and proclaim a Sharia-based state if they are given the motivation to do so.

The premise of this thread will require not just ordinary ASBs, but enough ASBs to somehow make the above analogy to occur. Apart from the Tibetans and Uyghurs (and even this one is iffy given the ethnic diversity of Xinjiang even ignoring the Han), all the other groups do identify with "China" as an idea. There has been too much integration over centuries to create the necessary "us-versus-them" mentality. And besides, very few of them occupy contiguous areas with convenient transportation and fertile soil and trying to carve new states among the tribes of Southern China will be as if the US Government granted independence to all the Indian Reservations.

Maybe you could stir up some trouble in the southwest, in Yunnan perhaps? Some of the smaller ethnic groups there could agitate for independence, perhaps backed by some outside financier running guns and money through Burma.

There was plenty of motivation to do so. The CIA backed Hmong rebels in Laos, and to this day ethnic militias continue to wage insurgencies in Burma and the Seven Sisters of India. If the CIA wanted to they could have backed multiple insurgencies in Yunnan as they did in Tibet. Yet they didn't bother. Somehow this reflects the lack of grievances the tribes of Yunnan have towards China as an ideal.
 
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