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This is continuing an act of genocide against the Uyghurs.

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.

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.

I'm from Silesia which is now part of Poland after the WWII. All my grand parents were born in Germany and then the borders moved and the land became polish.

But it's more complicated, because my ancestors were fighting against both the polish and the Germans to make Silesia an independent nation, but they failed. Two of my great grandfathers ended up in concentration camps because of that, one in Auschwitz and another one in Dachau.

When my dad started going to achool he spoke Silesian, a mix of polish and German which was usual there. His parents were called to the principal countless times that they have to do something about it because German was not allowed in school.

When my grandfathers sister who lived in Germany because she fled there - came to visit him they spoke German at the bus station because she didn't speak polish. Someone called the police and my grandfather spent two weeks in jail for this.

When I started to go to school, it was still forbidden to learn German, so I was supposed to learn Russian instead.

My parents finally had the possibility to flee to Germany and only there 1989 we all started to learn the language of our ancestors, two generations later.

Still to this day the polish government is afraid of the separatistst movement in Silesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_independence

China has the exact same problem as Poland. Before Xi they have been quite relaxed with it. My wife was born into a Korean family in north east China, she didn't speak Chinese until middle school. They had their own identity, Korean schools, Shops, etc, no integration needed.

But separatism is dangerous for countries, it brings a lot of problems, fighting, security concerns, etc. It's just easier and more harmonic if everyone pulls to the same direction. Poland crushed the German identity by constantly putting people into jail and making it impossible to live a normal life and by mixing the rest of the german population who for whatever reason couldn't flee to Germany after WWII. And they did so very successfully I might add. Now Xi is learning from this success and doing the same with their minorities.

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

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

Hmm, hmm...

So, ethnic cleansing?

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.