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.

  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    This is a very slanted and obviously biased article. The US official spends BILLIONS on anti-china propaganda. Part of that is cultivating people like Simone McCarthy (who some observers^* say is related to related Joseph McCarthy, the inventor of McCarthyism).

    It bans acts that “undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division”

    What, like banning hate speech or race based discrimination? What does it mean?

    The state is mandated to support museums, libraries and other cultural institutions to hold events reflecting Chinese history and national prosperity

    Horrifiying!

    EDIT: China does have problems with racism, so this seems like a perfectly reasonable goal to have.

    local authorities must work toward ethnic integration in their housing policies – a stipulation observers suggest

    DEI? BUT AT WHAT COST???

    Organizations and individuals outside mainland China that “undermine” ethnic unity or “create ethnic division” will also be held liable

    Separatism is part of the standard playbook of the CIA / NED for regime change. Generally regimes don’t like being targeted for regime change. Would you?

    If you personally have ever been targeted for regime change, please share your experiences below.

    the law appears to be a final step in a years-long evolution of Chinese policy to emphasize national identity over ethnic autonomy.

    Xi, who came to power in 2012 following widespread 2008 protests in Tibet and deadly unrest in Xinjiang, home to its Uyghur minority.

    Yeah there was a little international funded terrorism there. At least China didn’t start multiple imperialist “wars on terror”.

    What liberals don’t seem to understand is that the USA spends billions to undermine and foment dissent and chaos in other countries they consider enemies or rivals. This is a real issue other “shithole” countries who don’t bow to US imperialist pressure have to content with. And there are no easy or simple or pretty solutions. It’s easy for the CIA to disseminate lies or hate or nationalism. This CNN article is just adding insult to injury.

    The whole idea of “cultural genocide” is ludicrous. The USA has replaced cultures with copies of McDonalds and Starbucks worldwide and their insidious and delicious Hollywood movies. The USA regime does this, and they let capitalism run wild which in the balance of things helps them. They use soft power and push policies like copyright and drug policies and economic ideology and get them adopted globally.

    But if any other state tries to create and instill a culture in their population, oh it’s soooo evil! Fucking China bad from CNN. Any mention of “human rights campaigner” has long lost all meaning because most are logically funded by either CIA or plutocrats.

    What the Chinese are saying is perfectly reasonable, there is agitation and it’s a problem. But it’s being cast through the lens of “evil regime, evil people” to make it sound ominous.