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.

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    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.

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      China is obviously better than america and its not even close, however china is still bad due to revisionism/dengism

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      Both China and the US are fascist. So they’re about the same.

      Yeah, fascists will call themselves socialist, democratic, or even communist if it serves their goal of gaining power.

      You need to do a lot of due diligence on anyone calling themselves a socialist.

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      In my -admittedly limited - experience, the bast majority of people are nice, good people. Doesn’t matter where they come from, what the color of their skin is, what their culture is, most people are decent and just want to make it through the day. Just the other day I was in a city where a football world cup match was playing and the streets were filled to the brim with people from all countries, all walks of life, all partying together. I saw 10 people from every “color” and gender and what not, all playing “keep the ball up”. Everyone was wearing a T-shirt from a different country and it didn’t matter, everyone was there to enjoy themselves.

      Its usually a tiny portion of narcissistic assholes with psychopathic tendencies that feel the need to get more money, more power, who always end up pushing bullshit like this. It’s always a form of “I want more wealth or power so if I make another minority group look bad, I can divide and conquer and become even bigger!”

      I think that if we simply remove the option to become super powerful that things finally will turn around. That means world wide wealth caps for one, nobody richer than, say, ten million dollars, anything over that goes to taxes. And for two, it means also capping the power that politicians have.

      Once everyone is more or less equally powerful, and there are no more incentives to push for more wealth, that 1% if you will, will no longer have the power to push those narratives that one is better than the other, they won’t be able to spread lies as easily anymore and why even try if you can’t get rich or powerful anymore?

      I think that is the thing that will turn this around for humanity, we need to stop the rich and powerful

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      Why does everything need to be compared to the US and why can’t both be bad?

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        100%. The only thing comparing them does is make each look less bad in contrast with the other.

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      Hey, be generous and give .ml some time to write their script at how they treat their minorities better before they respond to you!

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      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

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          Oh yes, China is also better at executing people who don’t agree with it through their courts. Amazing place!

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        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!

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            We know exactly where they are, satellite images exist. The Chinese government only allows international observers strict supervised visits to pre-approved sites and does not allow interviews with the local people. Well done you for denying the genocide, hope your family is proud!

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              We know exactly where they are, satellite images exist

              So you know where China allegedly, and remember this is the claim you’re defending, killed 20% of the regions population in a single year? 2 million people, more than in Gaza, gone in a single year, in a single concentration camp according to the US conspiracy theory you’re currently pushing.

              does not allow interviews with the local people.

              What in the absolute racist fuck are you talking about?

              Go on tiktok.

              Right now. Don’t avoid it.

              Type in Xinjiang.

              Congrats. you will find more than a thousand interviews from Big creators, small creators, and western news outlets.

              Holy shit how are you this propagandized? Do you understand how brainwashed you have to be to actually believe something like this?

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                Personally, I think they’re a mentally handicapped lib. Their heart is in the right place, but they have been propagandized beyond repair.

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                So you know where China allegedly, and remember this is the claim you’re defending, killed 20% of the regions population in a single year? 2 million people, more than in Gaza, gone in a single year, in a single concentration camp according to the US conspiracy theory you’re currently pushing.

                Typical straw man, these are your words and your claim, I have never heard of this or mentioned this? What are you on about seriously?

                I am talking about the mass internment camps housing an unknown amount of Uyghurs, possibly up to a million people. These people are being held indiscriminately against their will for an unknown amount of time. Maybe if you got off the brain rot that is tiktok you would understand. Of course I do not have that government spy app on my phone. You think I am propagandised and you tell me to check out a Chinese government propaganda site like tiktok to tell me the Chinese government is doing nothing wrong.

                Do you see how preposterous the stupid words you typed are? Then you have the cheek to tell me I’m brainwashed while shilling CCP crap. You live in crazy town buddy, hope the weather is nice there!

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                  I am talking about the mass internment camps housing an unknown amount of Uyghurs, possibly up to a million people.

                  Yeah, so where are the 500+ square miles of camps that would need to exist to host that many people. Literally where? You don’t have satellite pictures of any facility or group of facilities that large. That’s half the prison population of the US’ prison system, which covers thousands of square miles.

                  These people are being held indiscriminately against their will for an unknown amount of time.

                  No. People in prison have prison sentences with determinate amounts of time. Also if they were held ‘indiscriminately’ they would just be prisoners?? Like?? Discriminately imprisoning people is the claim being made by the US. That they’re being locked up for their ethnicity. Or sometimes religion. If they are being held indiscriminately then China isn’t doing anything wrong regardless of how many they have locked up…

                  Maybe if you got off the brain rot that is tiktok you would understand. Of course I do not have that government spy app on my phone.

                  TikTok is a US owned and operated company, and it also has a website. It is also by far the largest social media website and the largest source of news for populations under 50.

                  You think I am propagandised and you tell me to check out a Chinese government propaganda site like tiktok to tell me the Chinese government is doing nothing wrong.

                  TikTok is majority owned by Oracle, and for US audiences is run off of Data centers in the US owned by Oracle, who has complete and total control over content shown to US users. The App’s source code itself has been audited by the US federal government and Oracle as a part of reversing the ban on Tiktok.

                  At no point was Tiktok Chinese owned. Singapore, despite your people’s best efforts to claim otherwise, is not a Chinese city.

                  Do you see how preposterous the stupid words you typed are? Then you have the cheek to tell me I’m brainwashed while shilling CCP crap. You live in crazy town buddy, hope the weather is nice there!

                  You’re so racist you thought a Singaporean app owned by a US company that has been audited by the US government is chinese spyware.

                  Get some amount of medical help. I recommend going to China, who can offer you psych care for less per session, including flights and hotel stays, than you can receive in the US.

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              And Israel doesn’t allow international journalists or aid groups into Gaza, yet we have overwhelming video evidence of genocide occurring. You can go to Xinjiang tomorrow and interview the local population. Your parroting disproven bullshit proudly and you should feel ashamed for it.

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                Whataboutism at its finest, the absolute state of you! When you are comparing yourself to Israel you are surely in good company! Israel and China are working from the same playbook. You think I should be ashamed? Look in the mirror you filthy genocide denier, shame on you and your mother for having you!

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                  Respond to the content of my comment and explain how I’m wrong. Why the discrepency? You can go to Xinjiang but not Gaza, why?

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          Right, and one is declared a genocide by the UN and most international human rights groups, and one is propaganda, lol.