Chilling
This isn't about unity, it's about control. How can erasing entire cultures ever be seen as progress? The clause pushing children to report on parents feels straight out of a dystopia.
China’s new ethnic unity law legalizing cultural ‘erasure’, minorities warn at UN
GENEVA: Tibetan and Uyghur representatives urged countries at a United Nations meeting last week to pressure China to repeal a new law they say is aimed at erasing minority communities. The Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which comes into effect on July 1, aims to forge a “shared” national identity among ethnic groups and “strengthen cohesion.” But rights advocates charge it has been shaped to provide Beijing with legal cover for pursuing long-existing policies of forced assimilation across the vast country with the Han majority.