China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law | CNN
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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.

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.

  • doben@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Nice source you base your hate on.

    From https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/about/:

    The initial phase of this research project is supported by the US government’s State Department

    From Wikipedia:

    The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a defence and strategic policy think tank (…), founded by the Australian government, and funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, defence, and technology companies.

    What are the overseas governments, defense and technology companies, you never wondered before?

    ASPI receives funding from defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group and Raytheon Technologies. It also receives funding from technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google.

    Finally, it receives funding from foreign governments including Japan, Israel, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

    They also have an office in Washington, D.C. In short, it’s a western nation-state and capital funded, crappy propaganda source.

    • Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      When your government is doing clandestine dystopian things the information vacuum will be filled by your enemies. Who else has pockets deep enough to finance the hard work of the academics involved? Your adversaries have something to gain by painting China in a bad light, why would they miss an open goal like this?

      We know China is lying about the existence of these camps, the satellite image is clear as day. There are multiple other sources on this, the one I gave is just the easiest to use.

      What do you think is happening in the reeducation camps of Xinjiang, really? Do you deny their existence or do you go along with the Chinese state line of “voluntary vocational training.”