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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    I don’t care, pedophile apologist. You and the redditor mod finally sealed it up for me: American Exceptionalism benefits the Jeffrey Epstein Class. This whole movement against China is forced and fake, and if it is not, it is still nowhere close to an emergency as the USA’s threat to the world currently is.

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      That fact that you think speaking up against China is equal to supporting America and apologizing for pedophiles shows exactly how tribal and mind numbingly fucking stupid you are. All of the major world powers are evil dipshit, stop shilling for ANY of them.

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        I am not shilling for China, I’m shilling for the truth. Any of you could have easily brought their genocide on LGBT culture, which is one I am very disappointed at, but this Uighur one, I don’t trust America telling me what is a genocide and what is not anymore. China argues it is doing it to avoid the same fate the USSR had: so many divided ethnic groups causing the downfall due to difference of opinions and not having a common ground. Knowing China, they likely did it violently, I have seen the photos of the Uighur inside a camp, being given a speech, but I still have the room for the possibility that this is not the same as what Israel is doing, or truly a “genocide” but a cultural integration. I went and read the law, and it promises to keep their cultural identities afloat and protected, but it’s hard to know if it’s being respected, because we live in the other side of the world, and I have already fell for Anti-China propaganda before, like the way you keep getting shown videos of cars running over children and then driving away, their heavily polluted air; throughout my entire childhood, I don’t remember a single positive thing said about China on TV, on my News or the Internet. It was always constant hate and assuming they are evil, thieves, malicious, always stealing brands, ideas, products, doing piracy, they eat dogs, they lack hygiene, their food is unhealthy and filled with sodium, just negative negative negative negative.

        I am tired of the hate toward China. Same with India. Same with Muslims. The experience was the same. The only countries that were respected were the UK and America. A lot of Mexicans here still support America and think Americans and Europeans are “higher quality human beings.” Those same Mexicans will degrade themselves when they’re next to an European or American, they behave like little butlers and serfs. But with Indians, South Americans, maybe Muslims, they behave like MAGA, racist and xenophobic. Seeing these patterns so constantly, just made me highly skeptical of anything you have to say about these countries anymore. Same with the UK, I remember it celebrating when they arrested Prince Andrew, telling America “that’s how you do it. That’s how you arrest a Jeffrey Epstein Class member” but shit was a fraud. He was barely arrested, didn’t go to jail at all, happened a year later, and wasn’t because of what he did to children, but some political betrayal, spilling political secrets or whatever.

        Shit does not feel genuine. This post is an article from CNN, that is only making the truth blurrier. I want the truth, and I guess it will take time to get it, because doing journalism in China seems more difficult than other places. I don’t trust their secrecy either, I am sure the CCP has a lot of disgusting war crimes in their closet like any other country does, and I was VERY critical about how they were using TikTok to dumb down our nations, with two different algorithms, and likely spreading Chinese propaganda through it, I am aware of all that, but I am also aware of American Exceptionalists here, I just spoke to a massive one who refuses to admit America has committed genocide alongside Israel. Do you really think I can trust someone like that to talk about what is a genocide or not? He couldn’t bring any evidence or at least give a humane argument as to why America should also stop. I did that to see if they are treating this like a sports game, not really whataboutism.

        I still blame China for Covid, which killed many. Officially 7 million, with some experts saying it’s actually 15 million+ because of how difficult it was to report the deaths. Have we heard anything about the responsible scientists? Are they in jail or what do they have to say about the fact they caused an accident that killed more people than the Holocaust? I distrust China so much there. I have the thought that they did a biological attack, and it’s so easy to hide biological attacks. People think they have to look like an apocalypse movie, everyone running out of their cars while a green cloud is being sprayed over them, people turning into zombies or some shit. People refuse to believe that it is actually this easy to lie or shrug shit under the rug. China did punish the first doctor who warned about Covid, I will never forget that, Dr. Li Wenliang, he was suppressed and then he died to Covid. That was incredibly embarrassing and disappointing from China. I hate when they do shit like that.

        But I cannot talk about that, because a lot of you genuinely believe Covid was an accident and there’s no much I can say without sounding conspiratorial or crazy to you. But it is one of my massive criticisms of China. They probably did Covid to make us look bad and gain more global favor, because people will see how many people died in the USA to Covid vs China for example. Have you seen those numbers? China only lost like 100 people per million, while the USA lost like 2,300 per million, something like that.

        At a bare minimum, I’d like to hear what those biologists have to say about what happened, but we never got that. Not a single word. 7-15 million deaths, just like that. Even if it was a genuine, sincere accident, I’d like to see some justice, and I find it weird there never was more noise about that.

        Nonetheless, I’ll thread this claim about China doing a genocide carefully. I am tired of finding out I was lied to.