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Your argument confuses language, ethnicity, ancestry, and geography as if they were interchangeable. They are not. Ethnic Chinese Singaporeans speak English, yet that does not make them ethnically English. Numerous African countries use English or French as official languages, and Equatorial Guinea recognizes Spanish as an official language. Does that make Africans English, French, or Spanish by ethnicity? Of course not. Singapore itself recognizes English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil as official languages. Language use is not proof of ethnic identity. The same principle applies to Chinese vocabulary. A 2025 research review published by Japan’s National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics estimates that Sino-derived words account for roughly 43–54% of Japanese vocabulary, 47–56% of Korean vocabulary, and around 70% of Vietnamese vocabulary, depending on the material studied. Yet Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese are not Chinese ethnic groups. Shared vocabulary reflects historical cultural contact, borrowing, and linguistic development, not automatic ethnic identity. Now apply that same standard to Uyghur history. Uyghur and Turkish belong to the Turkic language family, but “Turkic-speaking” does not mean “ethnically Turkish.” Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and the modern Turkish people have distinct historical identities. Conflating a language family with one modern ethnicity is precisely the mistake your argument makes. There is another problem with your citation. The 2019 Chinese white paper says the main ancestors of modern Uyghurs included the historical Uyghur people who lived on the Mongolian Plateau during the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Mongolian Plateau is a geographical region, not a synonym for the Mongol ethnic group. The same account describes centuries of migration and integration with other populations. It does not simply claim that modern Uyghurs are ethnically Mongols. As for the alleged Mao quotation, the Wilson Center confirms that an Albanian archival record of Mao’s meeting in Hangzhou on June 7, 1960, exists. But a catalogue entry confirming a document’s existence does not authenticate every sentence in a modern translation. Until the relevant passage is checked against the original record, its exact wording, context, and translation chain remain essential questions. So here is the basic test: if shared language or borrowed vocabulary proves shared ethnicity, then your logic would turn English-speaking Chinese Singaporeans into English people, French-speaking Africans into French people, and Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese into Chinese people. You would not accept that conclusion in those cases, so you cannot selectively apply it to Uyghurs. A language family is not an ethnic group, a geographical name is not an ancestry test, and an unverified translation is not conclusive evidence.🤷🏻‍♂️