Australian MPs Condemn China’s Ethnic Unity Law, Urge Government to Put Tibetan Survival Before China Relations

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Canberra: Several Australian MPs have raised strong concerns in Parliament during the recently concluded 48th Parliament sitting over China’s new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” and Chinese government’s interference in the reincarnation issue of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

MP Andrew Wilkie calling the new ethnic law “Orwellian” and said it aims to accelerate the assimilation of Tibetans and other ethnic groups into a single national identity and described it as cultural genocide and extraterritorial and transnational repression. He urged the Australian Government to act and ensure they do not to put the relationship with the Chinese government ahead of the fundamental...

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