China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote “ethnic unity” - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.
On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.
It mandates that all children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten and up until the end of high school. Previously students could study most of the curriculum in their native language such as Tibetan, Uyghur or Mongolian.
The 9-dash line? Not to mention the border disputes with India.
These are 2 areas that are being fought over for strategic reasons. One is a mountain border that would be a strategic chokepoint for potential future invasions. At this point it’s such a farce that both sides voluntarily carry out hostilities with sticks. The 9-dash line is some pretty creative mapmaking but it has nothing to do with territory and everything to do with the straight of Malacca. They want to stop the US from doing the same thing Iran is doing at the straight of Hornuz.
Neither of those is an example of “absorbing people against their will”. There are no people who to be absorbed because one is water and the other a bunch of mountains.
Arunachal Pradesh is home to over a million people, which China claims and is slowly building into in much the same way Russia bled into Ukraine. (And it probably should be part of Tibet which should be it’s own nation, that China has been occupying it so long that its government-in-exile has little influence is a terrible defense)