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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      Just putting them by the million into internment camps like we see in Xinjiang…both USA and China can be terrible imperial regimes at the same time!

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          We know exactly where they are, satellite images exist. The Chinese government only allows international observers strict supervised visits to pre-approved sites and does not allow interviews with the local people. Well done you for denying the genocide, hope your family is proud!

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            And Israel doesn’t allow international journalists or aid groups into Gaza, yet we have overwhelming video evidence of genocide occurring. You can go to Xinjiang tomorrow and interview the local population. Your parroting disproven bullshit proudly and you should feel ashamed for it.

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              Whataboutism at its finest, the absolute state of you! When you are comparing yourself to Israel you are surely in good company! Israel and China are working from the same playbook. You think I should be ashamed? Look in the mirror you filthy genocide denier, shame on you and your mother for having you!

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                  Fantastic input there buddy, you’ve really added to the conversation.

                  I will never understand people who try and stick their head into other people’s conversations with comments like this. My best guess is you’re lonely there little guy. Aww bless!

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                    Bubu, you’re claiming stuff straight out of fantasy land, sprinkled with a little rage towards people that are confronting you with your automatisms.

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                Respond to the content of my comment and explain how I’m wrong. Why the discrepency? You can go to Xinjiang but not Gaza, why?

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            We know exactly where they are, satellite images exist

            So you know where China allegedly, and remember this is the claim you’re defending, killed 20% of the regions population in a single year? 2 million people, more than in Gaza, gone in a single year, in a single concentration camp according to the US conspiracy theory you’re currently pushing.

            does not allow interviews with the local people.

            What in the absolute racist fuck are you talking about?

            Go on tiktok.

            Right now. Don’t avoid it.

            Type in Xinjiang.

            Congrats. you will find more than a thousand interviews from Big creators, small creators, and western news outlets.

            Holy shit how are you this propagandized? Do you understand how brainwashed you have to be to actually believe something like this?

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              Personally, I think they’re a mentally handicapped lib. Their heart is in the right place, but they have been propagandized beyond repair.

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              So you know where China allegedly, and remember this is the claim you’re defending, killed 20% of the regions population in a single year? 2 million people, more than in Gaza, gone in a single year, in a single concentration camp according to the US conspiracy theory you’re currently pushing.

              Typical straw man, these are your words and your claim, I have never heard of this or mentioned this? What are you on about seriously?

              I am talking about the mass internment camps housing an unknown amount of Uyghurs, possibly up to a million people. These people are being held indiscriminately against their will for an unknown amount of time. Maybe if you got off the brain rot that is tiktok you would understand. Of course I do not have that government spy app on my phone. You think I am propagandised and you tell me to check out a Chinese government propaganda site like tiktok to tell me the Chinese government is doing nothing wrong.

              Do you see how preposterous the stupid words you typed are? Then you have the cheek to tell me I’m brainwashed while shilling CCP crap. You live in crazy town buddy, hope the weather is nice there!

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                I am talking about the mass internment camps housing an unknown amount of Uyghurs, possibly up to a million people.

                Yeah, so where are the 500+ square miles of camps that would need to exist to host that many people. Literally where? You don’t have satellite pictures of any facility or group of facilities that large. That’s half the prison population of the US’ prison system, which covers thousands of square miles.

                These people are being held indiscriminately against their will for an unknown amount of time.

                No. People in prison have prison sentences with determinate amounts of time. Also if they were held ‘indiscriminately’ they would just be prisoners?? Like?? Discriminately imprisoning people is the claim being made by the US. That they’re being locked up for their ethnicity. Or sometimes religion. If they are being held indiscriminately then China isn’t doing anything wrong regardless of how many they have locked up…

                Maybe if you got off the brain rot that is tiktok you would understand. Of course I do not have that government spy app on my phone.

                TikTok is a US owned and operated company, and it also has a website. It is also by far the largest social media website and the largest source of news for populations under 50.

                You think I am propagandised and you tell me to check out a Chinese government propaganda site like tiktok to tell me the Chinese government is doing nothing wrong.

                TikTok is majority owned by Oracle, and for US audiences is run off of Data centers in the US owned by Oracle, who has complete and total control over content shown to US users. The App’s source code itself has been audited by the US federal government and Oracle as a part of reversing the ban on Tiktok.

                At no point was Tiktok Chinese owned. Singapore, despite your people’s best efforts to claim otherwise, is not a Chinese city.

                Do you see how preposterous the stupid words you typed are? Then you have the cheek to tell me I’m brainwashed while shilling CCP crap. You live in crazy town buddy, hope the weather is nice there!

                You’re so racist you thought a Singaporean app owned by a US company that has been audited by the US government is chinese spyware.

                Get some amount of medical help. I recommend going to China, who can offer you psych care for less per session, including flights and hotel stays, than you can receive in the US.

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                  China is an authoritarian regime that has great powers to restrict the information available to international observers. There have been several data leaks that have given us an insight into what is currently going on in the region. When I say up to a million that is the higher end of the estimate, others estimates put it at hundreds of thousands. We need estimates because the Chinese government blocks and tries to stop information from getting out of the region. The Chinese government does not have the best reputation for truth telling and transparency. In terms of maps and satellite imagery the Xinjiang data project does a great job documenting the detention and “re-education” facilities it has found, as well as the destruction of sites of significant cultural heritage to the Uyghur people.

                  https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/map/?

                  No. People in prison have prison sentences with determinate amounts of time

                  But these are, as claimed by the Chinese government “re-education” camps. They also hilariously try to claim that they are voluntary.

                  Also if they were held ‘indiscriminately’ they would just be prisoners?? Like??

                  This refers to the manner of their detention, they are held without proof of a specific crime, evidence or a proper trial. If you are going to police language at least understand what you are talking about or else you just look like a fool.

                  TikTok is a US owned and operated company, and it also has a website. It is also by far the largest social media website and the largest source of news for populations under 50.

                  This is only true if you live in the USA, tiktoks parent company, Bytedance was forced to sell about 80% of the American arm to American investors. I and most of the rest of the worlds population do not. Bytedance who’s headquarters are in China run tiktok international. The Chinese government has access to all of the data on their servers and retains a 1% golden share of the company. Next you are going to tell me Facebook is a great source for news with no CIA influence. Why do you think the Americans forced Bytedance to sell tiktoks majority US ownership to them? Because they know exactly how they exploit Metas data themselves.

                  You’re so racist you thought a Singaporean app owned by a US company that has been audited by the US government is chinese spyware.

                  Good man, if all else fails play the racism card, right! Bytedance is a Chinese company, Zhang Yiming is not from Singapore last I checked?

                  Get some amount of medical help. I recommend going to China, who can offer you psych care for less per session, including flights and hotel stays, than you can receive in the US.

                  I’m ok buddy, I live in Ireland where medical care is both free and among the best in the world, top 10 anyway. The only place I could really go to get better care would be somewhere like Taiwan who are typically ranked number 1 for healthcare. I’d just as well take my chances in Russia over China for healthcare!

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                    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.

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                  Bytedance, who have their headquarters in China, owns tiktok. America has their own American owned subsidiary company, 80% American shares, 20% Bytedance. The whole world isn’t America buddy.

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        Right, and one is declared a genocide by the UN and most international human rights groups, and one is propaganda, lol.