China’s draft law raises concerns that it masks assimilation as unity, targeting religious and ethnic minorities. Human Rights Watch @humanrightswatch warns that such claims have previously justified repression of language rights and the persecution of Tibetans and Uyghurs.

📖https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-draft-ethnic-unity-law-tightens-ideological-control

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Tomoka Sato’s article examines China’s language assimilation policy and its use of ‘unity,’ drawing parallels between Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang, and showing how Mongolian-language education has been eroded despite official claims of equality.

📖https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2022.2074727

📷 Byamba-Ochir

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