In Terms of Race, Languages, and Religion
(En termes de race, de langue et de religion)
SECTION I: CHINA
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China is called Zhongguo in Chinese. The character zhōng means "middle" or "central," while guó means "state". The term is commonly translated into English as "Middle Kingdom", but is also sometimes translated as "Central Kingdom".
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English and many other languages use various forms of the name "China" and the prefix "Sino-" or "Sin-". These forms are thought to derive from the name of the Qin Dynasty that first unified the country (221–206 BCE). The pronunciation of "Qin" is similar to "Chin", which is considered the possible root of the word "China"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
China is called usually “Chu-Goku” in Japanese, since “Chu” means “central” and “Goku” (Koku or Kuni in other cases) means a “country” in Japanese.
It is because Han Chinese (the core of contemporary Chinese) first established their city state in the Central Plain of the Chinese Continent fairly long time ago, say, 4000 years ago.
(The vast majority of Han Chinese — over 1.2 billion — live in the People's Republic of China (PRC), where they constitute about 92% of its population. Within the PRC, Han Chinese are the majority in every province, municipality, and autonomous region except for the autonomous regions of Xinjiang (41% as of 2000) and Tibet (6% as of 2000).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese )
SECTION II: MANCHU
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The Manchu people are a Tungusic people who originated in Manchuria (today's Northeastern China). During their rise in the seventeenth century, along with the help of Ming rebels (such as general Wu Sangui), they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established a republican government in its place.
The Manchu ethnicity have largely been assimilated with the Han Chinese. The Manchu language is almost extinct, now spoken only among a small number of elderly in remote rural areas of northeastern China and a few scholars; there are around ten thousand speakers of Sibe (Xibo), a Manchu dialect spoken in the Ili region of Xinjiang.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchu
SECTION III: TIBETANS
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The Government of Tibet in Exile claims that the number of Tibetans has fallen from 6,330,567 to 5.4 million since 1959, while the government of the People's Republic of China claims that the number of Tibetans has risen from 2.7 million to 5.4 million since 1954. The SIL Ethnologue documents an additional 125,000 Tibetan exiles living in India, 60,000 in Nepal, and 4,000 in Bhutan.
Tibetan exile groups estimate the death toll in Tibet since the invasion of the People's Liberation Army in 1950 to be 1,200,000
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Chinese and "proto-Tibeto-Burman" may have split sometime before 4000 BC, when the Chinese began growing millet in the Yellow River valley while the Tibeto-Burmans remained nomads; Tibet split from Burma circa 500. The Tibetan language is a member of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people
SECTION IV: UYGHUR PEOPLE
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Uyghurs live mainly in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, where they are the largest ethnic group, together with Han Chinese, Hui, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Russians.
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Uyghur history is the story of an obscure nomadic tribe from the Altai Mountains rising to challenge the Chinese Empire and ultimately becoming the diplomatic arm of the Mongol invasion
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The Chinese government often imprisons Uyghur nationalists and has executed some individuals. On February 9, 2007, Ismail Semed was executed by the Peoples Republic of China for "attempting to split the motherland". In March 2006, Huseyin Celil, a Canadian Muslim religious leader was arrested and later convicted for “separatist activities” and sentenced to life imprisonment because of his alleged links to groups seeking independence for Xinjiang.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people
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If the Empire of Japan had not stood up against invasion by the West in the late 19th century, East Asia should have been in ever-lasting turmoil and debacle as the then Chinese Imperial Dynasty proved unbelievably powerless to Western colonists, including the Russian Empire.
(In short, without the samurai tradition in Japan, Asia today, including India, China, and Japan itself, must look no different from Africa and Latin America before WWII, thus resulting in no economic super-power Japan and no economic success of Korea, Taiwan, Thai, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India, and other Asian countries, the fact of which however has been neglected by Western economists and pundits on purpose.)
As India was colonized by Britons, Indochina was colonized by French, and Central/South Americas were colonized by Spanish and Portuguese, East Asia as a whole must have been put under the hegemony of the West, while so many US whaling boats were rampaging about in the West Pacific Ocean possessively.
Yet, the Empire of Japan tried to assimilate Manchu, Koreans, and Taiwanese, which turned out to be arrogance the God did not permit.
Then, the Empire of Japan was defeated in WWII, losing its territories in Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan as well as islands in the South Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.
The same thing must apply to contemporary China in terms of their hegemony over Tibetans and Uyghurs as well as their posing threat to Taiwan people.
But you should also note that Japan, Korea, and Mongolians (and Manchu) belong to a different language group(s) from that Chinese and Tibetans belong to, so that the former has in general a strong sense of distinction from the latter (though Japan uses the Kanji letters similar to, and originally adopted from, Chinese letters).
In terms of the religion, Communist Han Chinese must not have dominance over Buddhist Tibetans and Islamic Uyghurs.
It is just like European Americans must not have dominance over African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans, including Hawaiians, in my personal humble view.
(Now, cherry blossoms in Tokyo have started to bloom.
I may go out to take some pictures today, since they must be still white-tinged as an early mode of its bloom.)
“God bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God’s glory.”
(Gott hat euch als sein Eigentum erworben)