Students and teachers in the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia are taking part in rare protests against a new policy requiring that certain classes be taught in Mandarin.
The main language used now is Mongolian and is spoken by a fifth of the province’s population.
Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu is in Beijing.
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I won’t be surprised that CIA is behind this!
Zhang Qian *if
And shut up! You CCP slave.
@Manduul Bakhdal Don’t argue with her, they are beyond saving.
Very famous person will be say = who have internal problem in a house go and fight with your neighborhood because your internal problem Hide . 😂😂😂😂🤣
since no one knows mongolian and understand what they are speaking, which makes it easier to make fake news.
Mongolian still knows how to speak mandarin and the struggle is real. If you know chinese u can show you a video of a teacher talking against CCP officials
@Dark of the knight i am Chinese i dont need you to teach me what China really is. 装什么大尾巴狼，反共就回国反，在YouTube上反共，挺有意思啊。
@Automatism 有啊。評論都被刪除罷了。😂 你要被抓也可以啊
Good. Inner Mongolia had been forcibly annexed by China.
China 🇨🇳 is evil….
No , Only Mandrin because Chinese has dictatorship leader…..
CCP is the most thick faced lier in the world. They are shameless and brutal. They are the threat to the free world.
While you have millions of population, you are called minority in China where the Chinese are more than a billion. What a curse!
Cantonese (Guangdong) has 80 million speakers, Wu (Shanghai) has 60 million speakers but they are minority in China.
there are 917 MILLION mandarin speakers in the world and only 3.6 million mongolian speakers. If you want your children and grandchildren to be unable to function in the world sure teach them mongolian. If your want you descendants to have a chance at making money and having a prosperous future then teach them mandarin
917 million Mandarin also speak minority language like Cantonese (80 million) & Wu (60 million)
China get out of the planet
Wait until common Mongolian man started to unite neighbouring tribes.
China will be theirs again
Are you a Chinese Separatist Traitor or Fucklun Goon member or an Indian using a fake Chinese name?
@Dragon52 ok commie
I think you live in the 1200 century. The modern age is too fast pace for you.
Meanwhile Mongolia use Russians lol😂 And inner Mongolia using traditional Mongolian language lol
CCP is so sick!
Fail Mandarin examination. It is free. 😁
You can’t speak mongolian, but not learning it in school… Simple as that. Same in germany. Thats totally normal. I support china on this issue.
Just anti-China propaganda when your commentator refers to Tibet and Xinjiang, as the Tibetan and Uygurs languages and cultures have been preserved in promoting tourism. As citizens of China with Mandarin as the official language, it would be natural that they need to learn Mandarin so as to find suitable employment, participate in trade and commerce on a equitable playing field. Do Qatar not required their citizens to learn the Arabic language, regardless whether they are Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis, etc., ? That goes for every countries as well, like Russia, the EU states, India, Korea, Japan, the US and every nations for that matter.
Tbh, the worst treated are Han Chinese , all these so called minorities would be given huge discount on their entry test to universities .
Down with CCP
Han Chinese don’t have the concept of unity in diversity. China has become Han Chinese racist hegemony. China will fall down simply because of the narrow minded Han Chinese. Han Chinese are digging their own grave for country called China. It is matter of time for China to become history.
Why, Foreign Minister giving comments on domestic affair??? I often sees this lady giving statement representing CCP.
If it was english will they protest ..
Humanity suffer when small group of people has too much power over rest of population. This is not sustainable anymore.
I’m from inner Mongolia. I don’t know what you western news tripping on. Mongolian was never taught in the public school. There’s Sunday school you take, but never in public schools
I see, I am a Mongolian too ( outher) in U.S. Majority of Mongolians have worried about inner Mongolian’s brother sister’ safety since this language ban break.I hope you searched the news and protester all around world. As Mongolian we only can support the way. Those all happens because of China is implying the one China policy in Hong Kong ,Inner Mogolia Tibet, Uigur Shinjian addition Taiwan.
@Broadcast Journalist well, I can’t say I know all the inner mongolian’s life, but in huhehaote, mongolian are actually treated as important citizens, and they get extra support from the government, and they can have more than one kids, while the han are only allowed one. Of course there were different types of confrontations, and language teach in public schools has always been on the top topic, but nothing was ever done about, I’m most certainly are not saying Chinese School shouldn’t teach mongolian’s language, I think that would be wonderful.
What I am saying is western media is making something that’s been going on for a very long time as some news, and it’s not, it’s something that’s always there.
@Lali Lata i see, I’m happy if they r fairly treated as first class citizen in China. Yeah,I think Chinese some people more educated than before, and kinda opened their perspective of divercy culture through business. I hope ongoing happens in inner Mongolia same as what you referring here. But I heard that 5 provinces still teach subjects on traditional Mongolian language in primary grades. Isnt true ?
@Broadcast Journalist I know there’s private schools for mongolians, but I’m not very sure about the 5 provence teaching mongolian’s culture you are speaking of. I mean culture of mongolian are taught in public schools, just not the language part. Which in my opinion, it should be more important.
@Broadcast Journalist also, I have to address the idea of “first class citizens”, from what I can recall, mongolian are one of the largest minority in china, while inner Mongolia also have a lot of Chinese Muslim, it’s probably one of the more diverse region. While China has 56 different cultures, I don’t think mongolian were the first priority for minority benefits, I think the central and south region has some very small and old tribal are probably considered the most protected people. They have more land rights, and they can keep outsiders away from their tribes.
In my country there are more than hundred languages but we learn only our national language and English at school. We learn our native language at home. This is a similar situation.
You can guess my country.
hongkong not part of china as well as Tibet East Turkestan and South Mongolia
thanks Deutsch Bank of ChiNazi… criminals against poor Tibetains, Uighurs and Mongols!
Boycott Angel of MerHell, boycott china, boycott germany
Cactus66 Arizona
Your brain is totally f’ed up.
Typical dictator in China
Good old China
I have no opinion on this particular issue. But the sad part is that these people are going to be branded criminals, no right to express their concerns. How “some” Chinese people can continue to support the CCP is the greatest travesty here.
TK Wong …. I’m not anti-China. I see nothing wrong with China rising. In fact, I think China rising is a good thing. But the murderous SOB’s behind the wheel, that’s not good for the rest of the world. Yes, I think 60-80 million is too high. I also disagree with those numbers.
Real Guy
You may have your freedom of thought about China or anything. Just don’t lie. You are making it obvious.
TK Wong …. I didn’t lie about anything.
Real Guy
Good……bon bon for you.
TK Wong … 谢谢！
May the locusts of the Bible destroy the USA, Russia and china for spreading war disease death destruction and pollution, Now all that is needed is the birth of artificial general intelligence in a small country to reshape the balance of power in the world and a new conflict to destroy these power hungry countries for good!
Huh? Why are they being forced to learn mandarin in Mongolia. Isn’t Mongolia its own sovereign nation?
Inner Mongolia which is part of China
Protect the Mongolian Language, Culture, and Traditions! All Lives Matter, That includes their Identity!
Do not let the CCP overrun the underdogs.
China is so unwanted, even its own people do not like china.
China is basically North Korea on steroids.
@Vick Nad 😂😂😂😂
Word!!
Satan spelled backwards
Natas;
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
United Nations has always been useless when it comes to situations like these…we all know they’re going to let China have their way because UN people can’t get enough of their money. They’ll easily turn their eyes away to let a superpower have their way every single time.
What do you want them to do invade china with what army. Plus you do understand that the un is an accumulation of world countries and around the world china has many debtors so.
Cultural Genocide has been happening in Tibet, East Turkistan, and Mongolia. Communist China dominated by Han Chinese is now systemically Ethnic cleansing the so called minorities. These are all Colonized lands who have their own culture, language and traditions very different from Chinese. Only Han Chinese languages are taught in schools. Language advocates are given long prison terms for inciting separatism. Communist China’s repression over these minorities are unbelievably harsh and excessive. Find out what happened to Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuck.
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People think that there aren’t any protests in China but actually they happen fairly often on a small scale but they seem to have very little influence on decision-making and if the protests become too big it doesn’t end well for the protesters.
Now, we’re going to hear the Wumao version of how the Han Chinese make up the majority of people in inner Mongolia without mentioning that it’s the result of transmigration policy aiming to assimilate the ethnic Mongolian people just as other ethnic groups were assimilated and now self identify as Han.
主要是为了高考加分，民考汉容易的很，早就可以禁了
Why China interfering to Mongolia it is unnecessary
We love you mongolians.. fight for your freedom
3 million population. And this is about the language of instruction for critical knowledge.
So how are you going to compete going to a Chinese university and how do you accumulate knowledge?
Is it feasible to translate crucial knowledge into Mongolian?
Meanwhile in China, Chinese want their children to learn English so they can send them overseas.
Just for confused people…
They are talking about language changing problem of Inner mongolia .
As you know these is outer mongolia and inner mongolia.
Outer is it’s own country
Inner is chinese part of once mongolian land that mongols lost after the empire’s fall.
Looks like you are causing more confusion. Mongolia used to be part of China. Under the pressure from the former USSR, Outer Mongolia broke away.
@TK Wong Aren’t you the one?
If you going to say
“was part of”
Who was part of what?
The both countries has big history of empires.
China was concured by Mongols empire under khublai.
And next both china and mongols conquered by manchurians?
So what’s the deal?
Are we really gonna talk about who conquered who?
Mister smart chinese.
@TK Wong Plus they broke away why?
Outer mongols did asked and agreed with USSR… it wasn’t USSR pressure or forced it’s more like they didn’t wanted to be with y’all and i think it was the best choice ever 😂😂😂
keyzoro 95
Calm down mongol. I was simply elaborating what you said.
Once upon the time we the nagas (india)are the race of Mongolian. Long live Mongolian.
why dont you teach indian language in the us?
It’s clear that the Chinese are pursuing ethnic cleansing, culturally and biologically, so that there are only Han Chinese.
Who invade other countries’ U. S is bombing or invading countries and displace millions of people. While China is building roads, railways, airport, bridges, hydro dam, port and invest in other countries. Idiot
@Nickson Sicnawa 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Don’t let chengis khan take birth again
This is a poorly made propaganda. Every nation have their own national language, and China national language is mandarin language. Second language is also can be taken such as your mother toungue or if you want to pick foreign language such as english. Usually mother toungue you can learn at home and surroundings.
The worst nations that destroy mother toungue are actually those who claim that they are democratic, such as US and Australia. How many of the local Americans (Indian american) or Australians ( aborigins) know their mother toungue?
By learning national language and their own mother tounge they can open many job opportunities. You can see that shanghai still talk using shanghainese that is not tought in school, and when they talk to fellow shanghainese.
They need tuong lu kim!!!! War dance
China is brutal.
Shame on CCP
I request Mongolia and Tibet to rise against China.
Moral values and protection of our identity is important
Near impossible mind you.
Han popoluation numbers over a billion.
And in inner mongolia it’s 80% Han Chinese and only 20% Mongolian. This partly has to due with the fact that china colonized inner mongolia :/
Better idea would be to pull a hong kong and destabilize the region to slow down further government influence. This wont fix the problem but it will allow for an opportunity to present itself in the future
@Powersettings M Actually only 17% Mongolian in Inner Mongolia. And even less Mongolian in Inner Mongolian in 1947. Actually, even 2000 years ago, Han Chinese were living in the land of today’s Inner Mongolia and there was no Mongolian at all at that time. The Mongolian people today in China’s Inner Mongolia are the Later generations of the Mongolian aggressors.
@Powersettings M I think you know that Mongolian invaded many countries in the history. They invaded China, invaded Russia, middle Asian countries and even Europe. The Mongolian invaded these countries and the Mongolian people also live in these countries since then.
@Junjie Pan yeah thanks for clarifying to someone who knows all this and is even mongolian. Wow so much help
Rise mangolia rise.
We don’t want china to rule us.
China needs to learn english well. They need to adjust for the world not the world to adjust on them.
老外根本不了解问题的原因是什么，只会瞎起哄
Xinping is a hitler ⚠️⚠️⚠️
美国那么多非裔，咋不搞双语教学。中国搞双语教学还不讨好。
CCP reform policy affect all Chinese equally and it is betterment for all.
It’s not Mandarin, it’s simplified Chinese ☹️
Americans always sending so much hate to China. Meanwhile Americans are telling Hispanics to learn English. 🤦🏻♀️
I bet they will not show this in chinese media and tell people that everything is good in the occupied inner mongolia
Treat them like north korea pullout our businesses.. theyre biting the hands that fed them
Irony is: this inner Mongolian people in China , Tamil people in India are ready to embrace English ( foreign language) but don’t accept their own home grown languages. Shame on you
natchi all over again
Free TIBET, FREE HONG KONG, FREE UIGHUR MUSKIM and NOW FREE INNER MONGOLIA.
*Words of wisdom from a previous leader of China*
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one… If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.
Deng Xiaoping
On that note, it’s time for the PLA to fulfill their ORIGINAL mandate and “LIBERATE THE GOOD CHINESE PEOPLE FROM THEIR OPPRESSORS”
Ccp showing its true face again.
Should Respect in differentiation
I don’t punch women’s however everytime i have seen this ccp woman i really want to punch 😤
A Mongolian man is seen speaking English which language has not yet eradicated his Mongolian language and culture, so why would Chinese… This is insane thinking..
To be completely objective, as much as I dislike China’s political agenda, placing a greater importance on a language that is becoming more and more essential for business and job opportunities, is a good thing
Tibet, uighyur, inner-mongolia, all are captured territories by china.
Ghengis Khan approved.
I think they should keep their own language but they also need to learn mandarin, english because to be honest, how many foreigners that understand mongolian language?. Anyway, is there any apache or sioux language being taught in the US school?.
In Malaysia, the Chinese were told to speak Malay in Parliament. How come Al Jezeera did not whimper a single word? In India, Modi wants all school to teach Hindi, what about the Tamil speaking southern Indians and the Silks language? The US force the indigenous people to speak English. All former colonial rulers force the people of their colonies to speak French, Portuguese, Spanish, and English. How come westerners didn’t utter a single word?
Genghis Khan must be so proud
China should follow Egypt, UAE, and Saudi Arabia to ban Al Jazeera because it is a Western presstitute.
So Hua Chunying is saying these people are risking the lives by protest, for no obvious reasons?
Mandarin is national language, every minority should learn Mandarin, every Han has to learn Mandarin too because they only speak dialect at home, then Han has to learn English so it’s USA wipe Chinese culture!
Mongolians Don’t Need Your Languages They Need Support And Help The Chinese Just want to out Dominant Them in an Control Resources
红火树 Grand Tibet (including Qinghai Sichuan Yunnan…) East Turkestan & Mongolia as well as HK, are not part of CCP Hans territories almost stolen by innvaders dogs eater sent from Beijing.
Time to Independency & Freedom up to 2/3 of china.
(Inner) Mongolia independent movement was none existent before now but the CCP managed to jump start it, good job!
China is at yet again
I bet these Mongolians if we’re living in the U.S.A., then they have to use English in the public for a better communication, hence they have to learn English for that without any objection !- Certainly they dare not go for any form of protest for sure !
China, should check Christian churches. The US missionaries have long penetrated the Outer Mongolia, I will not be surprised that Mongols from Outer Mongolia have established many churches in Inner Mongolia and converted may Mongol Chinese. This protest have the character of those HK protesters, who were supported, financially funded by Christian churches.
CIA been working really hard these days
विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि 🙃
Genghis Khan is rolling in his grave right now
Good News….according to my friend in Beijing, this teacher AND the principal were fired!
everyone one om earth needs to just learn English already. what an amazing way it will be to unify the world if we all spoke one language
I hope China will slap tariff on Qatar products or sunction ALJAZEERA. because of Fake news.
its really great to see people fight for their language, we bengalis know what its like to have someone try and destroy your language
Someone bring ghengis khan back
Mongolia is Mongolia, Inner Mongolia is China, two different countries!
Mongolia will be China’s downfall. If they are the dragon, the Khans blood in Mongols veins will rise and be awaken then the dragon slayer’s blood will completely annihilate the red dragon. Fear will come upon the land of Han and hordes of horses again will bring destruction and unpathomable horrors upon the sons and daughters of the great red dragon.
Pakistan will be introducing Chinese over English as their second language soon …
ANOTHER US, CIA, UK, AUSTRALIA, DONALD POMPEO DISEASES INFECTING UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS. THE SAME DEVILS ARE NOW IN BARULOUS, SPREADING THEIR MINDS INFECTIONS.
USA behind this
We need another Genghis khan from Mongolia..
China has already taken much of Mongolian land..
How are they going to get a job if they only speak mongolian.
Mother tongue is “non-negotiable”.