China’s ethnic assimilation law, branded as ‘Unity and Progress Law’, comes into force

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(TibetanReview.net, Jul02’26) – Despite being criticized and condemned in the democratic world as a repressive assimilation move designed to homogenise the minority communities with penal enforcement, China has hailed its Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law as the country’s fundamental law on ethnic affairs as it entered into force on Jul 1. A five-year plan for its implementation from national to township level is being worked out.

The law is designed to enhance cohesion and common prosperity among all 56 ethnic groups. It comes as the country enters the final decade of its drive to basically achieve modernization by 2035, said China’s official Xinhua news agency Jul 1.

As the law...

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