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.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      People have grand parents that were raped, killed, or tortured by the Japanese empirial army. 80 years ago is still within living memory.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
        13·
        2 hours ago

        You don’t understand… He’s a white Ex-pat living in asia, obviously he has the deepest appreciation and understanding of Asian culture and history possible. It’s not like the Ex-pat communities are primarily living in asia to exploit the low cost of living, or engage in commerce more dubious in nature…

        Obviously if a white man living in asia says so, I should just be fine with the fact that my grandfather lived hidden in a hole in the ground in the backyard for over a year so he wouldn’t be forced into a work gang or worse. It was 80 years ago, I should just get over it. It’s not like Japan or America have turned my homeland into a neo fascist state or anything.