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China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law (edition.cnn.com)
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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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[–] BehavioralClam@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, pretty normal law:

Here's an English summary of this document — the Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, adopted March 12, 2026 by the National People's Congress, effective July 1, 2026.

Purpose & framing The law aims to strengthen a shared sense of Chinese national/ethnic community identity, promote unity among China's ethnic groups, and support the "great rejuvenation" of the Chinese nation. It affirms equality of all citizens and ethnic groups before the law and bans discrimination or oppression of any ethnic group, while emphasizing Communist Party leadership over ethnic affairs work.

Structure (7 chapters, 65 articles):

  1. General Provisions – Legal basis, guiding ideology (Marxism-Leninism through Xi Jinping Thought), core principle of "forging a strong sense of Chinese national community," and rejection of foreign interference in China's ethnic affairs.

  2. Building a Shared Spiritual Home – Promotes patriotic/socialist education, shared cultural symbols, protection of heritage sites, and nationwide promotion of Standard Mandarin Chinese as the primary language in schools and government (while still protecting minority languages). Includes provisions on education curricula, media/propaganda work, family education, and outreach to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities.

  3. Promoting Interaction and Integration – Encourages mixed-ethnic communities, cross-regional migration/employment/education exchanges, youth exchange programs, tourism, and regulation of online content — banning material that incites ethnic hatred or discrimination.

  4. Advancing Shared Prosperity – Focuses on economic development in ethnic minority regions: infrastructure, industry, poverty alleviation, border-area development, public services, and ecological protection.

  5. Safeguards and Oversight – Assigns responsibilities to government bodies, party organizations, businesses, religious groups, military, and grassroots organizations. Establishes a "Ethnic Unity Progress Publicity Week" (last week of September) and mechanisms for public complaints and prosecutorial public-interest lawsuits.

  6. Legal Liability – Penalties for officials or organizations that fail to prevent ethnic-unity violations, discrimination (e.g., employment discrimination based on ethnicity), or online violations. Serious violations (terrorism, separatism, religious extremism) are treated as criminal offenses, including for actions by foreign entities targeting China.

  7. Supplementary Provisions – Allows provincial/local governments to enact supporting local regulations; law takes effect July 1, 2026

CNN propaganda bs confirmed... From a country with 80% black jail population, legal slavery of them, and currently hunting brown people and disappearing their kids at that....

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

not answering you, but for people having doubts after reading your reply: please translate it yourself because its not just that, there's 1984 stuff like this inside:

Parents or other guardians of minors shall, in accordance with the law, fulfill their responsibilities for family education, educate and guide minors to love the Communist Party of China

[–] BehavioralClam@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, I don't know how much are you familiar with the legislation and family and primary education programs in Western countries, but you can find really like just similar items in there that also indoctrinate our kids into loving and believing in the system in which we are functioning currently.

You all sing the anathems of your countries, praise the flags, wear uniforms and are acknowledged with the supposed history that happened and built the nation, you inhabit blah, blah, blah. Like it's all basic propaganda, like on the same level that you are here quoting from the Chinese state.

But that's even beyond the discussion of this article, since the article is claiming that there is like a genocidal or discriminatory intent in this legislation, when it's literally the opposite of that.

And also, there is a very general misinformation about the Han ethnicity in China. The Han ethnicity in China isn't and never was homogeneous ethnic group, the Han was formed by the integration of other ethnical groups through the history of China, which by the way did it in a voluntary way.

They didn't genocided other populations like the western, predominantly pink ethnicity, have done in the course of centuries, but they just accepted the addition of the surrounding ethnicities into their own, which did it to gain favor with the richer provinces and kingdoms.

The present Han are mix of dozens of older ethnicities.

And China is currently following the same "tradition".

What they do not accept on our very strict against are the existence of a technical or cultural group that are proactively trying to divide themselves from the hegemonical or the status quo cultural background that China is trying to project.

And for a good reason, because those groups are the ones that predominantly get undermined and infiltrated by foreign interests and end up creating ethnicities into their own, which did it to gain favor with the ruling classes, which did it to gain a better division and chaos in the regime, which we already have seen happening in other countries including Russia, where the Chechens were used by Saudis and US for that same reason.

Sure, forceful integration in these cases isnt the "cleanest" solution, but its far more effective and human than the discriminatory and alienating policies of the west, that market "diversity and democracy", only on certain levels, while the top is all pink, male, "judeo-christian".