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>>14120966
For dispute like Xinjiang and Tibet, that is because "China" is not China.
Look at this map from A.D. 1550, when China was ruled by Ming, the last Han dynasty before modern times. Orange is the territory of Ming, most of them are territory of ethnic Han. Red are different Tibetan tribes. Yellow are Manchu or other Tungusic people. Blue are Mongolians. Different shades of green are different Turkic tribes. Also there are some Thai/Myanmar/etc. tribe along the Southwestern border on the map that are not specifically colored. They're all different regions with different culture and different backgrounds.
Then in 17th century. Those Manchu people from the yellow part of the map started conquering the whole China and established Qing, they partner with those Mongolian colored blue in the map, and also conquered other parts of this map or used different tactics to let them accept Qing's control. After that they employed different tactics to rule different parts of its Empire.

Then, after Qing have fallen in year 1911, a new, supposedly more democratic modern country named Republic of China was formed. At first, before the revolution, they only wanted to lick out the Qing and restore the country for Han people. However, soon after that they realized that would mean losing more than half of their country territory, and then they shifted their goal to make a new country that is federation of five different ethnics. Han, Manchu, Mongol, Hui(Muslim), Tibetan. Subsequently PRC replaced ROC, and they used the Soviet styled policy to identify and treat ethnic minorities, and that generated the 56 ethnic minorities that are officially known to live within border of China. If you read the history from the non-Han side, it's easy to see how most of them don't have much recognition to the concept of China.