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.
Lol. Legal protection for minorities framed as a bad thing.
I think you misread the statement you’re quoting. Can you elaborate on what your take on it was?
My take was “China is banning acts that undermine a general Chinese Ethnic unity or create Ethnic Division (saying one group is different than another, you know, like a cultural pride or language teaching services in their native dialect would be examples)”
I read this to mean that the law is in place to do what they can to prevent outside agents from intentionally sewing separatist beliefs, as in outside groups (like maybe the CIA) sending people in that try and break up the unity of the larger Republic of China into smaller groups based on racist or ethic differences.
The statement from Beijing explicitly states it allows the minorities to practice their own language, and the 56 officially recognized minorities are considered part of the Chinese culture under this law, and protects those cultures.
China is constantly being battered on all sides by other agents from outside of their borders attempting to convince small areas to succede or separate from the Republic, and this bill is in place to prevent ethnic division on those grounds.
that’s my reading.
Is the CIA in the room with us right now?
Aren’t you the guy that defended Israel’s genocide?
You’re the only genocide denier here
Oh you must be some dumb fuck’s alt. All you fuckin sock puppets should be banned. Wanna point out which comment in my public comment history condones any of that shit? Or you just gonna pull some other bullshit whataboutisn? Israel has as much right to exist as you have reasoned positions. Fuckin ding dong dipshittery. Quick now call me blue maga or that I’m working for republicans or whatever nonsense projection you rubes are using these days.
Sorry for the off topic, I’m filling up a questionnaire. Do you think israel has a right to exist? :)
If Israel has a right to exist all the white people need to get the fuck out of north America. And you’re not sorry, you’re shit-stirring because the left loves to infight and purity test, I know because I do it too.
I reckon we can do both, no israel no white ppl in North America 🤝
🙌 you got me, I love this shit.
It’s not appropriate for a government to be doing this kind of thing. And it doesn’t protect minorities it erases them.