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Rule of a group of people by their own leaders as opposed to rule imposed by a foreign government or people. quotations examples
Only two years ago a group of Uighur dissidents were discovered in Xinjiang, planning a province-wide uprising against Chinese rule. The slogan they were using was, "We want self-rule. We don't want to be dominated."
1985, Tiziano Terzani, The Forbidden Door, Asia 2000 Ltd, pages 223-224
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit Friday that "Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow", as concerns grow that China could invade democratic, self-ruled Taiwan.
2022 June 10, “'Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow': Japan PM warns”, in France 24, archived from the original on 10 June 2022