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Foreign Affairs: “The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown – Forced Assimilation Is Now the Law” By James Leibold and Tenzin Dorjee
July 31, 2026August 13, 2026
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Foreign Affairs: “The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown – Forced Assimilation Is Now the Law” By James Leibold and Tenzin Dorjee

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When the People’s Republic of China was founded, in 1949, it was explicitly a multinational state. Although Han Chinese make up more than 90 percent of the country’s population, China’s constitution and subsequent laws grant minority nationalities autonomy in specific regions and promise them collective agency as “masters of their own homes.” For decades, the...

Statement on the Passage of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”
March 12, 2026May 13, 2026
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Statement on the Passage of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”

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March 12, 2026 Contact: Lhadon Tethong  I  [email protected]  Statement on the Passage of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” Boston – Today the Chinese government’s rubber-stamp parliament approved the new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” which codifies policies and practices already being carried out in Tibet that a UN expert recently described as...

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