I don't understand the recent spate of China articles on HN. Most appear far more polemic and have a looser relationship with the truth than your typical HN article.
Well the reason for the existence is pretty straight forward if one looks at the climate of US foreign politics and its treatment of China at the moment.
And that's not to say that the discrimination against the Uighur minority isn't real, but language unification policies have been practised by pretty broad array of countries, for example France, where Corsican or Breton and many other dialects were eliminated from education and public life, and where the official language is still nationally administered.
The reason being that it's essentially seen as anti-republican and communitarian and that someone who does not speak the national language cannot participate in affairs of the state.
