China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs

Government actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge.

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

On July 1, China brought into force its Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, converting a decade of Xi Jinping’s doctrine of “forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation” into binding law. Most attention has gone to its domestic machinery: entrenching Mandarin over minority languages, issuing unified state textbooks and creating […] The post China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth appeared first …

China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.

China’s Ethnic Unity Law: Uyghurs in the Diaspora Already See Its Effects

Signs of the law’s rapid (and transnational) enforcement are deeply concerning. The post China’s Ethnic Unity Law: Uyghurs in the Diaspora Already See Its Effects first appeared on Bitter Winter.