Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, June 25: China has defended a controversial provision in its newly enacted “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that allows authorities to hold individuals and organizations outside the country legally accountable for actions deemed to undermine ethnic unity or incite ethnic division within China.
The law, which is set to take effect on July 1, has sparked concern among human rights advocates and exile communities, who argue that it entrenches Beijing’s assimilationist policies in Tibet, East Turkistan, and other minority regions while extending China’s legal reach beyond its borders.
Under Article 63 of the legislation, organizat...





