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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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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (10 children)

As someone who lived in China for about 5 years, it's amazing reading people's comments on China that have never been there, but they watch bullshit propaganda tictoks, and think they know what they're talking about.

I'm 43 from the US. For how ridiculously racist the world thinks the US is because they have the most whiney people with victim syndrome (because you know we have free speech and China doesn't), I have heard/seen legitimately 10x more racist shit living in China in 5 years than I've heard over the last 38 years of my life.

There's government messages all over to hate/kill Japanese. They have an amusement park in the south (I forget where) where it's a replica US aircraft carrier you can visit and outside there's an activity where you can stop US tressed dummies with a bayonet.

China thrives on the imbalance of information between itself and the US. They abuse freedom of speech in the US while controlling all media outlets, social sites, and WeChat in their own country.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago (8 children)

hate/kill Japanese

Tbf..... That's pretty much all of Asia. That's what happens when you try your best to murder all your neighbors except for the ones you enslave to do either manual labour or be raped for years on end.

The hate for Japan would be like if the Nazi party still existed to a lesser extent and were unapologetic or in denial about their war crimes. The vast majority of their leaders since ww2 have either been war criminals, the children or war criminals, or grandchildren of war criminals.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Han Chinese are even racist towards other Han Chinese due to insane obsession with skin whiteness and China not having free movement like other countries (regional identity then becomes superiority status). This is kinda everywhere in Asia but China is especially bad.

The problem with western freedom is that it allows for lazy conclusions like "my government is restricting my freedoms and is unjust which means the opposition is free and just, through sheer virtue of being opposition".

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Wow. You sure make China sound like the united states!

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 72 points 3 days ago (149 children)

This is continuing an act of genocide against the Uyghurs.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 41 points 3 days ago

and other minorities

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (7 children)

How can there be ethnic unity if there are 56 officially recognized ethnicities.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

While the text of the law doesn't seem especially egregious, we'll have to wait and see how it is enforced. The treatment of minorities by China in the past has been fraught with... well imprisonment, torture, and erasure of their communities. Kind of like the US and Canada, but worse and on a bigger scale.

Probably just more of the same, honestly. My biggest concern is this:

and gives Beijing the right to target people outside of its borders that it believes violate its rules.

So, uh, any Chinese national, anywhere in the world, does something they don't like, they come after you? yeeeeeeah, that's gonna be a No from me, dog.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

So, uh, any Chinese national, anywhere in the world, does something they don’t like, they come after you? yeeeeeeah, that’s gonna be a No from me, dog.

They don't need to care how you think about it since they run these "110" police stations all over the world. They enforce the rules on Chinese people after they've left the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (50 children)

Tell me again how china is good or better than America? I’ve said this before but American capitalism hasn’t been the answer for decades. And Chinese communism won’t save us either. As a Native American I know all to well about the great American history of treating natives here. And how china has been treating Tibet and Uyghurs is distinguished as well as Taiwan too.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Both China and the US are fascist. So they're about the same.

Yeah, fascists will call themselves socialist, democratic, or even communist if it serves their goal of gaining power.

You need to do a lot of due diligence on anyone calling themselves a socialist.

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[–] Reality@feddit.org 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why does everything need to be compared to the US and why can't both be bad?

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

100%. The only thing comparing them does is make each look less bad in contrast with the other.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Hmm, hmm...

So, ethnic cleansing?

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[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Can't wait for the tankies to try and spin this into something positive.

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[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (24 children)

Define integrate. I live in a country that I wasn't born in. Obviously, I follow the laws, but I don't owe anyone to change my personality. I eat whatever the fuck I want, dress the way I want, etc. I'm allergic to narrow-mindness because it implies low intelligence, among other things

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