Original sentence: For some, this is an argument in support of a claim for the right of self-determination, and thus a right to political independence from the Chinese state.Proponents of Tibetan independence or Uighur independence reject the concept of Zhonghua minzu as grounds for a unified nation-state, with some argue that their peoples have a culture, history of political independence, and sense of nationhood which is quite distinct from that of the Han Chinese or China
Edited sentence: For some, this is an argument in support of a claim for the right of self-determination (which at international law is available only to a narrowly defined class of "peoples"), and thus a right to political independence from the Chinese state.Proponents of Tibetan independence or Uighur independence would even reject the concept of Zhonghua minzu as grounds for a unified nation-state.They would argue that their peoples have a culture, history of political independence, and sense of nationhood which is quite distinct from that of the Han Chinese