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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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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And not just “dealing with it.” Ending it by increasing regional economic opportunities, infrastructure projects, increasing access to healthcare and education, and thereby effectively eliminating poverty, the root cause of most crime, including terrorism. Oh, and all of that without impacting the Uyghur peoples’ culture or religion.

At least, that’s what the rest of the world outside of America, Europe, and Israel say.

https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang?rq=Xinjiang

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

And not just “dealing with it.” Ending it by increasing regional economic opportunities, infrastructure projects, increasing access to healthcare and education, and thereby effectively eliminating poverty, the root cause of most crime, including terrorism.

As far as I am aware, that's what China has been doing for decades... Possibly even better than the west, although we did have a head start and healtchare and education is still better in places here than some parts of China. But they're progressing.

Oh, and all of that without impacting the Uyghur peoples’ culture or religion.

Depends how you define impact. Islam is protected under the Chinese constitution. Uyghur culture is still celebrated, I've even seen Uyghur food stalls and restaurants with signage in the Uyghur language well away from Xinjiang. Whenever I watched it, state media seemed to make a point of telling everyone that the day of that reporting was a special festival for the Uyghur people and detailing some of their traditions. It seemed like a far cry from what I heard from western media.