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.

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Do you deny the so-called “white genocide”? I deny it, maybe that makes me a genocide denier.

    The outstanding traditional cultures of all ethnic groups are integral parts of Chinese culture.

    I literally says that traditional cultures of all ethnic groups in China constitute Chinese culture. This makes perfect sense. French culture is European culture. Scottish culture is British culture. English culture is British culture. Scottish culture is European culture. Texan culture is American culture. Californian culture is American culture. Han culture is Chinese culture. Miao culture is Chinese culture. Uyghur culture is Chinese culture. Guangzhou culture is Chinese culture. Hong Kong culture is Chinese culture. Beijing culture is Chinese culture. Taiwanese culture is Chinese culture. Hainan culture is Chinese culture. Tibetan culture is Chinese culture. New York culture is American culture. German culture is European culture. Chinese culture is Asian culture.

    Stating these things isn’t perpetuating genocide. It just makes sense.

    • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      More hand waving. Uyghur genocide is well documented and denying it based on what state controlled media says is your problem. You’ve typed paragraphs and paragraphs but you’ve said nothing of substance. Your point remains that the equivalent of Fox News in China said it’s not happening so everyone must believe them. Netanyahu says there’s no genocide in Palestine, CCP says there’s no genocide in Xinjiang, there is no war in Ba Sing Se. It’s all the same. You’re a gullible fool or you’re a paid assassin.

      If any real humans are reading this they need to understand that this user is a state actor with an agenda. Forced sterilization, reeducation camps, relocation and straight up murder is being committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people because of their religious beliefs and the way that they look. The person I’m responding to knows this is happening and wants it to happen. They have typed out dozens of comments over multiple days and have said nothing other than a plea for you to trust the villains committing the crimes.

      I’m sure they’ll respond here again and talk about translations or definitions of words or other distractions because that’s what they’re being paid to do. But in the end, the argument comes down to trusting the words in a pamphlet written by a corrupt regime that daydreams of being just like America and is doing everything they can to become just as evil and powerful.