Sikyong Penpa Tsering Calls China’s New Ethnic Law a Legal Assault on Tibetan Language, Culture and Identity

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Dharamshala: Less than four days before China’s discriminatory law on “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” comes into effect, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in exile convened a panel discussion to denounce what it described as China’s new ethnic law—a legal assault on the very survival of the Tibetan language, culture, and identity.

The democratically elected political leader of the Tibetan people and Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Penpa Tsering, attended the conference organised by the CTA’s research and policy wing, the Tibetan Policy Institute, as chief guest. He expressed serious concerns about the possible repercussions this new law could have ...

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