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.

  • Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    110·
    3 days ago

    You got humiliated and I felt sorry for you. I didn’t want to embarrass you more.

    Asking if an apartheid ethno-supremacist state needs to adopt a Chinese law safeguarding ethnic differences is completely off topic and delusional. You just don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.

    • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
      71·
      3 days ago

      Safeguarding ethnic differences through “assimilate or be punished”

      You’re a joke.

      • Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        27·
        3 days ago

        You are quoting something that doesn’t exist. Please source me the text where china force assimilation or punish people for having one of the 56 officially recognised ethnicities or shut the fuck up. You are embarrassing yourself.

          • doben@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            dude, you didn‘t read shit, other then a western propaganda piece (probably not even that) and are now behaving like some moral superior five year old.