ethnic minorities in China

I ran into this map while reading the French newspaper le Monde, which had numerous articles featuring the recent protest against the olympics that took place in Paris on Monday April 7th, where 70% of the French people are against the Olympics in China. I thought this visual was particularly interesting because it shows the ethnic minorities in China that have demonstrated some level of separatist tendencies towards the Chinese government. The person who made this graph chose to color in these areas in red, although I don't know if it would have been perhaps better to chose different shades for the different areas since the red can be misleading a bit when distinguishing the different areas that have demonstrated these tendencies. I thought the addition of the pie charts on the map was a particularly good idea because it gives you information about the area's population that you rarely would find by just looking at a map, especially since all of these areas are technically considered "Chinese." The only thing that took me a few seconds to process was that the circles the names of the minorities in the chart don't stand out so much, maybe a different color should be used since there is black already used in other parts of the map. One of the interesting things to see is to compare how diverse ethnically these border regions are to China, which is almost entirely Han. In terms of a visual that relates to the recent news it was also helpful to see because it shows you that there are many other areas that have shown resistance in the face of unjust Chinese oppression, but you can see why Tibet has come to the forefront of the news, or at least one of the reasons that it has. It seems that the population is 93% Tibetan and 7% Han, which highlights probably one of the reasons that their just resistance has been strong and the focus of much international attention since in the past month as the Olympics approach.