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Territorial Autonomy
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States wishing to retain territorial integrity in opposition to ethnic or indigenous demands for self-determination or independence sometimes offer or impose limited territorial autonomy.
Since World War One there has been an increasing impetus for colonial powers to create limited autonomous regions to change world perception of their exploitation and subjugation of the dominion territory. World pressure for liberation of such colonies has been a central theme with the Atlantic Charter, United Nations Charter, and finally United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 1514 and 1541 signed in December 1960. As the decolonization process of Self-determination described in the United Nations resolutions would inevitably result in fiscal and political loss, the colonial powers of the twenty first century such as People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Indonesia must increasingly relay upon limiting public support of the decolonization of such territories.
In Indonesia separatist journalist have stated: "Autonomy was the last resort of colonisers everywhere in order to maintain their colonial territories and a manipulation strategy to conceal the reality of colonisation."[1]
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