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- adjective pejorative, Marxism, China Favoring a
split orseparation from the Party or the nation. - noun China, Korea, pejorative A
separatist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Monks in the dark chapels of working monasteries like the Drepung say the last campaign against religion -- when they were forced to denounce the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" -- ended 18 months ago.
Shards Of A Nation 2008
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Chinese officials and envoys of the Dalai Lama - branded by Beijing as "splittist" - have held several rounds of talks, but little of substance has been achieved.
Taipei Times 2009
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The CPC views language as a "splittist" agent that could crack China along linguistic lines during times of social upheaval.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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The CPC views language as a "splittist" agent that could crack China along linguistic lines during times of social upheaval.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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The CPC views language as a "splittist" agent that could crack China along linguistic lines during times of social upheaval.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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The CPC views language as a "splittist" agent that could crack China along linguistic lines during times of social upheaval.
Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis Rebecca Novick 2010
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And I'm glad to see the leadership of CPAC -- and especially younger conservatives -- rejecting this prejudiced and "splittist" move.
A response to the CPAC boycotters Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Since 1993 when the Communist Party held its "Third Work Forum" on Tibet, the party boss of the time, Chen Kuiyuan, put forward the proposition that Tibetan Buddhism itself was "splittist" or "separatist," since Tibetan Buddhists considered the Dalai Lama to be an incarnation of Tibet's guardian angel, the celestial bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and so their loyalty to him was unshakable.
China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism Robert Thurman 2010
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From 1993 on, the policy became to decry Tibetan Buddhism as itself "splittist," demonize the Dalai Lama, drive sincere Buddhist practitioners out of their monasteries, and create a new generation of Communist, secularist, "Chinese," Tibetans.
China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism Robert Thurman 2010
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The Dalai Lama is often demonized in China's official media as "splittist" and a "wolf in monk's robes."
Dalai Lama Meets With Obama Jonathan Weisman 2010
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"China derides the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, as a 'splittist,' and dismisses the Congressional Gold Medal he is set to receive this afternoon as a 'farce.'"
- The New York Times, October 17, 2007
October 18, 2007