>>17821180They would probably prefer poor but independent.
Both Uyghurs and Tibetans.
At this point they are systematically ethnicly replaced and their culture surpressed by the communist state, for the benefit of all the natural resources that China can exploit.
And China wouldnt be such a nuisance if it was reduced to its actual natural borders.
Atm they are doing a semi-imperial larp by retaining the colonial lands that the last dynasty managed to subjugate.