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.
Define integrate. I live in a country that I wasn’t born in. Obviously, I follow the laws, but I don’t owe anyone to change my personality. I eat whatever the fuck I want, dress the way I want, etc. I’m allergic to narrow-mindness because it implies low intelligence, among other things
Here’s the wiki article on the law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_on_Promoting_Ethnic_Unity_and_Progress.
Some stuff makes sense - like economic modernization of regions with many minorities (especially poor regions), teaching Mandarin in schools so that everyone can speak the majority language, and preserving cultural works and texts of minority groups.
Other stuff seems repressive, like the broad enforcement section, the extremely broad reach of the law into all public and private institutions, legislating what various actors can/can’t teach the youth if it might “harm Chinese ethnic unity” which is left pretty vague. Very ethnostate-coded stuff on the whole, not great.
Some sections I thought were noteworthy, taken from wikipedia, shortened with DeepSeek. There is lots more stuff in there.
"Chapter I… tasks the whole of government and society to achieve these goals, mandating general obligations on a wide range of public and private actors such as … " [basically all imaginable institutions]
“Chapter II, titled Building a Shared Spiritual Home, lays out the ideological characteristics … requiring fostering identification with ‘the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China, and socialism with Chinese characteristics’ through patriotic education … and promotion of ‘Chinese cultural symbols and image of the Chinese nation’. It also codifies the predominance of Standard Chinese (Putonghua) in public life … and requires that Chinese characters be displayed more prominently than minority scripts if both must be used in public.”
“It tasks the Ministry of Education and the National Ethnic Affairs Commission in developing textbooks regarding ‘the community of the Chinese nation’ … It vows to support the standardization, digitization, and preservation of minority texts. It broadly requires media, internet service providers, families, among others, to promote the CCP’s ethnic policy … while prohibiting them from ‘instilling in minors ideas detrimental to ethnic unity and progress’.”
“Chapter V and VI concern the enforcement mechanisms … permits citizens to report conduct that ‘undermines ethnic unity and progress’ … Procuratorates may initiate public interest litigation when any such conduct also ‘undermines national interests or the public interest’. It generally leaves penalties to be imposed under other applicable laws. It also asserts jurisdiction over foreign organizations and individuals that ‘commit acts targeting the PRC that undermine ethnic unity and progress or create ethnic division’.[7] The law empowers the state to pursue those outside of China perceived as undermining notions of ethnic unity.”
If you have to ask you are not doing it right
Winnie the Pooh, probably
Source?
The Uyghurs.
Ah yes, dealing with radical islamic terrorism is only bad when China does it
And not just “dealing with it.” Ending it by increasing regional economic opportunities, infrastructure projects, increasing access to healthcare and education, and thereby effectively eliminating poverty, the root cause of most crime, including terrorism. Oh, and all of that without impacting the Uyghur peoples’ culture or religion.
At least, that’s what the rest of the world outside of America, Europe, and Israel say.
https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang?rq=Xinjiang
And not just “dealing with it.” Ending it by increasing regional economic opportunities, infrastructure projects, increasing access to healthcare and education, and thereby effectively eliminating poverty, the root cause of most crime, including terrorism.
As far as I am aware, that’s what China has been doing for decades… Possibly even better than the west, although we did have a head start and healtchare and education is still better in places here than some parts of China. But they’re progressing.
Oh, and all of that without impacting the Uyghur peoples’ culture or religion.
Depends how you define impact. Islam is protected under the Chinese constitution. Uyghur culture is still celebrated, I’ve even seen Uyghur food stalls and restaurants with signage in the Uyghur language well away from Xinjiang. Whenever I watched it, state media seemed to make a point of telling everyone that the day of that reporting was a special festival for the Uyghur people and detailing some of their traditions. It seemed like a far cry from what I heard from western media.
Tell me again how china is good or better than America? I’ve said this before but American capitalism hasn’t been the answer for decades. And Chinese communism won’t save us either. As a Native American I know all to well about the great American history of treating natives here. And how china has been treating Tibet and Uyghurs is distinguished as well as Taiwan too.
Hey, be generous and give .ml some time to write their script at how they treat their minorities better before they respond to you!
BOO!
I dont think either system will be the one prevailing in the long term, they are both to flawed and do not prevent corruption which will always destroy any system. So yea both are bad, which leads to the question which is currently worse? I’d argue latestage captialism corpo America is worse then CCP China at the moment. I think more average people are suffering in America then in China at this point in time. Dont get me wrong I’m not a fan off China in terms of censorship, oppression of people and other control measures in place, my only argument is that living a standard live in China is easier/more comfortable at the moment then in the US (better healthcare, less household debt, less homelessness, etc.). Also the Taiwan situation is very different then the Tibet and Uyghurs oppression but that’s a whole other topic so I don’t wanna start that discussion
Because they aren’t bombing innocent civilians.
Just putting them by the million into internment camps like we see in Xinjiang…both USA and China can be terrible imperial regimes at the same time!
Right, and one is declared a genocide by the UN and most international human rights groups, and one is propaganda, lol.
As someone who lived in China for about 5 years, it’s amazing reading people’s comments on China that have never been there, but they watch bullshit propaganda tictoks, and think they know what they’re talking about.
I’m 43 from the US. For how ridiculously racist the world thinks the US is because they have the most whiney people with victim syndrome (because you know we have free speech and China doesn’t), I have heard/seen legitimately 10x more racist shit living in China in 5 years than I’ve heard over the last 38 years of my life.
There’s government messages all over to hate/kill Japanese. They have an amusement park in the south (I forget where) where it’s a replica US aircraft carrier you can visit and outside there’s an activity where you can stop US tressed dummies with a bayonet.
China thrives on the imbalance of information between itself and the US. They abuse freedom of speech in the US while controlling all media outlets, social sites, and WeChat in their own country.
Han Chinese are even racist towards other Han Chinese due to insane obsession with skin whiteness and China not having free movement like other countries (regional identity then becomes superiority status). This is kinda everywhere in Asia but China is especially bad.
The problem with western freedom is that it allows for lazy conclusions like “my government is restricting my freedoms and is unjust which means the opposition is free and just, through sheer virtue of being opposition”.
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
Source: main US propaganda shitposting network…
This is a very slanted and obviously biased article. The US official spends BILLIONS on anti-china propaganda. Part of that is cultivating people like Simone McCarthy (who some observers^* say is related to related Joseph McCarthy, the inventor of McCarthyism).
It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division”
What, like banning hate speech or race based discrimination? What does it mean?
The state is mandated to support museums, libraries and other cultural institutions to hold events reflecting Chinese history and national prosperity
Horrifiying!
EDIT: China does have problems with racism, so this seems like a perfectly reasonable goal to have.
local authorities must work toward ethnic integration in their housing policies – a stipulation observers suggest
DEI? BUT AT WHAT COST???
Organizations and individuals outside mainland China that “undermine” ethnic unity or “create ethnic division” will also be held liable
Separatism is part of the standard playbook of the CIA / NED for regime change. Generally regimes don’t like being targeted for regime change. Would you?
If you personally have ever been targeted for regime change, please share your experiences below.
the law appears to be a final step in a years-long evolution of Chinese policy to emphasize national identity over ethnic autonomy.
Xi, who came to power in 2012 following widespread 2008 protests in Tibet and deadly unrest in Xinjiang, home to its Uyghur minority.
Yeah there was a little international funded terrorism there. At least China didn’t start multiple imperialist “wars on terror”.
What liberals don’t seem to understand is that the USA spends billions to undermine and foment dissent and chaos in other countries they consider enemies or rivals. This is a real issue other “shithole” countries who don’t bow to US imperialist pressure have to content with. And there are no easy or simple or pretty solutions. It’s easy for the CIA to disseminate lies or hate or nationalism. This CNN article is just adding insult to injury.
The whole idea of “cultural genocide” is ludicrous. The USA has replaced cultures with copies of McDonalds and Starbucks worldwide and their insidious and delicious Hollywood movies. The USA regime does this, and they let capitalism run wild which in the balance of things helps them. They use soft power and push policies like copyright and drug policies and economic ideology and get them adopted globally.
But if any other state tries to create and instill a culture in their population, oh it’s soooo evil! Fucking China bad from CNN. Any mention of “human rights campaigner” has long lost all meaning because most are logically funded by either CIA or plutocrats.
What the Chinese are saying is perfectly reasonable, there is agitation and it’s a problem. But it’s being cast through the lens of “evil regime, evil people” to make it sound ominous.
