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For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.
Now, that push has been codified into a sweeping new law that reaches into classrooms, neighborhoods and homes – and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.
The statute, officially known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, came into effect on July 1. It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division” among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90% of the country’s 1.4 billion people.
Isn’t this kinda standard? It would make sense to educate a country’s people in a common language. I don’t believe this is necessarily trying to eradicate the minority languages, patterns have generally shown that the languages just coexist.
As for unity in nationality, such a thing also makes sense.
Article reads as just another “haha china bad” hit piece from CNN
I would love your source on that, because that is contrary both to my reasoning and experience.
Countries with large native minorities usually teach using the native language. For example in the UK there are Welsh medium schools for native Welsh speakers. This is usually not done for migrants, but only for local native languages. In the case of China there are more then a dozen none Chinese native languages with over a million speakers. For some you could easily set up universities and so forth.
Although in Wales, english is already known and used by government services, same in Ireland. Only 81% of Chinese people can speak Mandarin.
In Wales and Ireland the native languages were deliberately subjugated, and are only recently being deliberately re-prioritised. It’s a sore point among both populaces
So to compare the amount of speakers pre and post language erasure isn’t that helpful I don’t think
Doesn’t mean China will necessarily subjugate and erase them though. Minority languages can still be seen represented across China, even on the banknotes. As well as celebrating ethnic minorities, united under the five-starred red flag. It’s likely an effort to just make mandarin a first language.
“Ethnic unity” is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
Evidence?
Show me a country that has engaged in cultural extermination that doesn’t couch it in terms of unity. That’s literally the core of fascism. You need one nation. One party. One race. One identity. That’s the definition of fascism.
I don’t think they’re advocating for one race here
Ethnic unity = one race
It doesn’t get more synonymous.
No one’s going to believe you’re that stupid so stop acting like you’re not just a troll.
It isn’t synonymous. The preamble of the legislation itself refers to the aim of a “unified multi-ethnic nation”. Just because the USA has issues of racism and race division going on, doesn’t mean that other nations should follow suit. The law is literally trying to break down race divisions and is in itself anti-racist.
Read the official publication, lol
https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/fl/202603/t20260313_723912.shtml
Two whole paragraphs you get to “traditional values”. Where have I heard that before?
Where does it say “traditional values”?
They’re literally advocating ethnic unity. Not unity between ethnicities, but ethnic unity implying one.
The law bars anyone from blocking marriages on ethnic grounds. The only way to stop one ethnicity existing would be to ban interracial marriages.
Also, it doesn’t imply anything, the preamble refers to a unified multi-ethnic nation. The whole Chinese view on the issue has essentially been anti-racism and working towards ending racial divisions. If such a thing were to be promoted in the west, it would be celebrated.
Well, the whole view far as Chinese propaganda goes. And Trump is making America great again. Mmhmm. Sure.