China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, passed in March, takes effect this month. It stands alongside the 1984 Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy as a foundational, comprehensive statute on ethnic affairs, placing the task of forging a strong sense of community squarely within the legal framework. Yet voices abroad have rushed to brand it an act of “transnational repression” and “long-arm jurisdiction”, training their fire on Article 63. Such claims borrow from the vocabulary of law but…
Just casually threatening jail time for foreigners in their own countries over treating Taiwan as an independent country.
Or for opposing ‘unity’ which now means, minority cultures can’t have schools in their own language.
This isn’t even reading between the lines. These are the lines.