Post-1989 Chinese nationalism portrays Taiwan and Tibet as sacred organic territory warranting military defense

Evidence

Since the erosion of communist authority after the Tiananmen incident in 1989, nationalist sentiments have found a wider audience both within state circles and within relatively independent intellectual spheres. Intense nationalism arising in a potentially unstable empire with an embattled Communist Party could have important consequences for regional stability in that vital part of the world, as it reinforces the portrayal of frontier countries, from Taiwan to Tibet, as “organic” parts of the sacred territory of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor that should be defended by military power if necessary. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3359

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how has this ‘descendants of the Yellow Emperor’ sacred-territory rhetoric intensified or shifted under Xi compared with the 1990s-2000s described here?