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.

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    9 hours ago

    China hasn’t even been under consistent Chinese control for the last thousand years, you are forgetting all about the Yuan dynasty, Mongol rule over China right around the time you claim Tibet has been part of China since. Sorry buddy but you are just claiming Mongol history, unless you yourself are Mongolian?

    Learn what the Yuan dynasty is maybe before saying this kiddo?

    After the Mongols we had the Phagmodrupa, the Rinpungpa, the Tsangpa, the Ganden Phodrang which takes us all the way up to about 1720 when the Qing established a suzerainty. Tibet gained full independence in 1912-51 then came Chinese defacto rule. So yea about 70 or so years being Chinese.

    No, they didn’t gain full independence. No one on earth has ever said that that hasn’t fucked a kid.

    Xinjiang was under the rule of Turco-Mongol Khanates from the 9th-18th century. The Qing defeated the Zunghars to establish imperial control and named the area Xinjiang (which means “new frontier” even the name of the place is laughing at your lack of knowledge you fool!) on 1884. Then we all know after the fall of the Qing China was a mess with the place loosely governed until China officially took control again in 1949.

    Cool, a Chinese province was temporarily occupied a millennia after it became a Chinese province. Amazing.

    It’s almost like you forget that China has risen and fallen apart several times in its long history.

    Or, it’s like you forgot this fact and pretend these regions were ever independent because your owner paid a lot of money to make you believe that.

    Now can we get back to China’s current cultural genocide in these regions that have clearly not always been Chinese?

    You are the one that brought this up. You are exclusively the one that spoke about this. I have already answered absolutely everything else that has been brought up. Read the fucking comments.

    • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Learn what the Yuan dynasty is maybe before saying this kiddo?

      Why so cryptic, if you have something to say it just say it.
      What do you want to know about the Yuan dynasty, you don’t seem to know much about it.

      No, they didn’t gain full independence. No one on earth has ever said that that hasn’t fucked a kid.

      You quoted the whole paragraph but only addressed a tiny part, what about the other 700 years you fool!

      Cool, a Chinese province was temporarily occupied a millennia after it became a Chinese province. Amazing.

      You just brushed over the more recent milenia where is wasn’t a part of China. Which is why Xinjiang means new frontier and was given that name in 1884. You act like China has had uninterrupted ownership of the region. How is about 1000 years “temporarily occupied”? This is why current China is engaging in cultural genocide in the region, the people there are not Chinese, unless you count all of the recent Han imports to the region.

      Or, it’s like you forgot this fact and pretend these regions were ever independent because your owner paid a lot of money to make you believe that.

      I’m not American, I’m Irish you fool. Just because you lick the jackboot of your owners doesn’t mean we all do like you. How does that boot taste by the way? Rubbery?

      You are the one that brought this up. You are exclusively the one that spoke about this. I have already answered absolutely everything else that has been brought up. Read the fucking comments.

      No you haven’t my evasive friend. I was specifically addressing the parallels between imperial Britain and modern imperial China and how both engage in strikingly similar programmes designed to take away the mother tongue of the local people.

      • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        8 hours ago

        You quoted the whole paragraph but only addressed a tiny part, what about the other 700 years you fool!

        The part where Tibet was under control of the Yuan (Chinese) empire? Or before that when they were just another province?