The problem with Western advice and lavish funding is that it only aims at achieving a semblance of democratic governing, to further its geopolitical advantage and national interest, and not the real ethnic nationalities' right of self-determination, anchored in an agreeable, genuine federal union system that cater to their aspirations.

But they are place between a rock and a hard place, which is to say between China and the West.

It would be interesting to see what kind of choice the ethnic nationalities would make out of the two necessary evils.

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