A statue of Genghis Khan at the Genghis Khan Mausoleum in Ordos, in November.
Source: Bloomberg
Xi’s Quest for Ethnic Unity Turns Genghis Khan Into New Danger
Beijing is rewriting history, banning plays, and restricting what and how children learn in schools, fueling criticism from the West
Genghis Khan and his heirs once conquered the territory of modern-day China to create the largest contiguous land empire in history. Almost 800 years after his death, the Mongolian warlord is emerging as a new threat to President Xi Jinping.
On a visit last month to the Genghis Khan Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, a Chinese region triple the size of Japan and home to four million ethnic Mongolians, a local official explained that ritual celebrations of the conqueror have been curtailed.