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.

  • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I’m not American and was not around for the McCarthyism era, I have no hatred of “reds” or fear of them being under my bed. My fight is against imperialism and cultural genocide which is clearly going on here. I understand the geopolitics of the region and China’s need to secure the heartland, there is no way China is giving up Xinjiang or Tibet, they are essential to China’s security. These regions only hope for freedom for their people is a collapse of the CCP.

    You are naive to believe that the CCP are not using Bytedance and tiktok to push their propaganda. The Americans are doing exactly the same thing, it’s propaganda on all sides only you can’t seem to see the propaganda from the Chinese side and eat it up with no thought, consideration or investigation. To me you are just as deluded as the MAGA Trumpers.

    You talk out of your ass, which only poops out what you’ve put in before, only browner and stinkier.

    You called my comment cringe…

    You asked me to view a comment in the link, I assume you wanted me to read what was contained in this new law China is bringing in. I have already read all of that, fortunately others have read the entire document which contains Orwellian gems such as this,

    “Parents or other guardians of minors shall, in accordance with the law, fulfill their responsibilities for family education, educate and guide minors to love the Communist Party of China”

    When I am talking about what is happening in Xinjiang I am not talking about Nazi death camps I am talking about cultural genocide. China is trying to erase the culture and the language of the people there. My own country experienced something similar so I can recognise what China is up to through the language used in this new law. Imperial nations like China typically copy what has worked for other nations. Destroy the peoples language and you go a long way to destroying their culture. The Chinese government has been encouraging Han Chinese to move to Xinjiang and Tibet in order to plant the area with a strong minority of loyal citizens. The British did the same in Ireland, the Americans in Texas and the Russians across eastern Europe. It’s all the same playbook.

    There is enough evidence of what is going on, we even have leaked Chinese government documents, satellite imagery and the testimony of those incarcerated. You can choose to believe the Chinese government like a MAGA believes trump if you wish. There is no convincing the indoctrinated.

    Then you mention evil communists, another straw man. Bit of news for you buddy but China is not communist, it is hard to argue they are even socialist unless you take the loose Marxist definition of we promise we will be communist one day, we just need to exploit the excess labor of the Chinese people for a little bit, we will all be rich soon. Ignore China’s growing billionaire class!

    I am not a fan of the capitalists or the western system. I get that China is doing something different but to me what China has done is just figure out a different way to exploit the working classes. Russia and its kleptocratic oligarchy is not a model to admire or emulate either.