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.
This comparison is ridiculous, USA is a former colony that wasn’t even founded until the 1700s; China is not a former colony, and has not been a cohesive nation for 5000 years for that matter.
Re not trusting western media, it’s foolish to trust any media on Earth, whether NY Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, or Pravda.
Re whataboutism, your points are pure whataboutism; not that whataboutism is wrong. It’s good to make comparisons, we all do it every day all day, and that won’t change no matter how it is labeled.
These are my criticisms to improve your argument for argument’s sake, nothing more.
I agree with you re integration of ethnic groups. Yes, I know it’s now called “genocide” by the UN now, but that’s pretty stupid in my opinion. A term that once meant the erasure of people by systematic murder has now been degraded to this fiasco definition. Of course China would want everyone to speak Chinese, why not?
Also agree with “American Exceptionalism”, that train left the station many decades ago and we’ve proven to be just one more empire. One can hope China doesn’t make the same mistakes, and continues to focus on China rather than being world police like the USA.