This photo taken on September 10, 2020 shows students arriving at the Tongliao Mongolian Middle School in Tongliao in China's northern Inner Mongolia region, following recent protests over a new bilingual education policy by the Chinese government. - For several days, Inner Mongolia, a vast expanse of northern China where herders marshall livestock across grasslands, was convulsed by protests -- the largest in decades -- in anger at an edict mandating Mandarin-language teaching. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-politics-culture-education-protest,FOCUS (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)