China has officially rolled out its new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law. While Beijing maintains the law is a crucial step toward national integration and common prosperity, corporate media and human rights groups have been quick to sound the alarm, alleging “forced assimilation” of minority cultures, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. Zoon Ahmed Khan, analyst and fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, joins Amanda Yee to situate the Ethnic Unity law within China’s development and poverty alleviation efforts, while also addressing critics’ accusations that the law erases minority languages and allows Beijing to target diaspora communities overseas.

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