Italian Parliamentarians Sound Alarm Over China’s Ethnic Unity Law, Warn of “Existential Threat” to Tibetan Culture

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Geneva: Italian parliamentarians, including the chair and vice-chair of the Italy-Tibet Parliamentary Intergroup, have issued video statements condemning China’s new Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity, calling it a vehicle for forced cultural assimilation that threatens the survival of Tibetan language, identity, and heritage.

Senator Giulio Terzi, former Italian Foreign Minister, delivered one of the most pointed critiques, rejecting the premise of the law outright. “What kind of unity are we talking about?” Terzi asked. “It is the destructive, homogenising unity of cultural assimilation imposed by the Chinese Communist Party, which conforms everything and flattens everything.” H...

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