The Tokyo Inter-Community Group protested: Uighur, Tibetan, South Mongolia, Hong Kong and Taiwan were on the same page.

On 3 October, a protest was held in Tokyo by groups concerned with Uighur, Tibet, South Mongolia, Hong Kong and Taiwan issues. Radio Free Asia reports that participants have expressed their claims on human rights, autonomy, political freedom and Beijing pressure in the same operation.

Such joint cross-ethnic action is not unique to Tokyo. The “Global Research China Day” campaign, which was also launched in early October in Europe, with the participation of Tibetans, Uighurs, South Mongolians, Hong Kong groups and Chinese democracy activists, shows that different communities abroad are trying to build cooperation on common issues.

The political significance of Tokyo activities is not to equate the history and claims of different groups with simple claims. Uighur, Tibet, South Mongolia, Hong Kong and Taiwan are not the same legal relations, political situations and policy instruments in the face of Beijing. These issues were put on the same march, reflecting the understanding of overseas activists of the common mechanisms between China Party power, national policy, Hong Kong governance and pressure on the Taiwan Bureau.

Existing public material still lacks sufficient independent cross-checking from independent sources on the full list of Tokyo-based organizations, the scale of participation and whether the Taiwan group is participating in such joint Tokyo operations for the first time. The draft therefore does not present these details as facts that have been proven by many parties, nor does it measure the impact of the action in terms of the size of the population.

It is even more worth tracking whether such cross-community cooperation can form a continuous network of organizations and whether they link human rights issues in China to foreign affairs, parliamentary and civil society initiatives in Japan, Europe and North America.