New Delhi, July 7: China, on July 1, 2026, did not merely bring a new statute into force – it gave legal language to a long-running project of cultural control. The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is presented by Beijing as a framework for harmony among China’s 56 officially recognised ethnic groups. But for Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui, Kazakhs and others, its real danger lies in how it turns identity into a matter of state discipline. Across the world, Tibetan organisations and…
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Beijing, July 3 (IANS) China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which came into effect on July 1, is pushing the ethnic minorities to integrate with Chinese identity and mandating that parents guide their children to “love” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The law also “bans acts that ‘undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division’ among China’s 56 officially recognised ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90 per cent of the country’s …
Zurich, July 3 (IANS) Over 400 participants took part in a peaceful march in Switzerland, demonstrating from Werdmuhleplatz to the Chinese Consulate General in Zurich, to protest against China’s recently enacted “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”.The protest was organised by the Tibetan Community of Switzerland and Liechtenstein in partnership with the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE), the Swiss Tibetan Friendship Association (GSTF), the World Uyghur Congress, the Swiss T…
Washington, July 2 (IANS) A bipartisan group of senior US lawmakers has sharply criticised China’s newly enacted Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, saying it would further erode the rights of ethnic and religious minorities while expanding Beijing’s ability to target critics beyond its borders.The statement was led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch and Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen, along with Senators John Curtis, Jeff Merkley, Jacky Rosen, Ted Budd, Tim Kaine, Tammy Duckwort…
Washington, July 1 (IANS) A bipartisan group of 14 members of the US House of Representatives has urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly condemn China’s new Ethnic Unity Law, calling it a tool of “forced assimilation, ideological control, and transnational repression” targeting Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians and other ethnic minority communities.The appeal, led by Congressmen Jim McGovern, Chris Smith and Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, comes a day before the law takes e…
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) China has met with some successes but also many failures in its attempts at economic influence. Subversive carrot tactics have allowed China to make inroads in places where leaders can act with relative impunity, such as Cambodia, but have backfired in countries where leaders face accountability mechanisms such as the Philippines, according to Audrye Wong, author of a new book, titled ‘Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft.’Wong highlighted in an artic…
Washington/Beijing, June 25 (IANS) The recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has drawn attention after official statements from both Washington and Beijing following the talks made no mention of human rights concerns, including allegations of abuse against Uyghurs by Chinese authorities.The omission comes amid Trump’s increasingly warm rhetoric towards Xi, whom he recently described as a “friend” and a “good man”, a report has stated.According to…
Taipei, June 14 (IANS) Civic groups slammed China for its law on promoting ethnic unity and progress set to be promulgated on July 1, saying that it amounted to forced assimilation and cultural cleansing, local media reported on Sunday. The groups said on Saturday that the law will impose a single national identity, weaken the identities of non-Han ethnic groups and promotes the “integration” of different ethnic groups through policies across several sectors such as education, housing, populatio…
Washington, May 31 (IANS) Arcadia’s former Mayor pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of China in the US, local media reported. As per the court filings, Eileen Wang (56) was charged in April and agreed to plead guilty to accusations that she was asked by the Chinese government to promote propaganda in the US from 2020-2022.Wang was elected to the City Council in 2022 and assumed the position of Mayor, a post that rotates among the Council members, Los Angeles Times reported.In April, she re…
Ottawa, May 29 (IANS) Canadian researchers have called for a more coordinated response by G7 nations to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, especially as technology and tactics evolve and Chinese agents join the Canadian societies, local media reported. Authored jointly by Marie Lamensch and Kyle Matthews, a report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security – titled ‘Guarding the G7: Countering Beijing’s Interference Operations – draws on open-source research and interviews to …