cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57036724
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The law was designed to create a "shared" national identity among China's 56 ethnic groups.
"A law that brazenly pushes non-Han ethnic groups including Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians toward a single, state-defined national identity rather than protecting their distinct cultures and languages," [Amnesty International's deputy regional director Sarah] Brooks said.
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The Han Chinese are China's largest and most dominant ethnic group, accounting for 17 per cent of the world's population.
But 125 million Chinese citizens belong to 55 non-Han ethnic groups, including the Zhuang, Uyghur, Hui, Manchu, Yi, Tibetans and Mongolians.
Parts of China's history were dominated by non-Han Dynasties: the Manchu Qing (1644–1912) and the Mongol Yuan (1271–1368).
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The Chinese government insists the new laws are not being implemented to suppress ethnic groups or languages, but to prevent separatism.
Following the 1911 revolution in which the Manchu Qing dynasty was overthrown, Mongolia, followed shortly afterwards by Tibet, declared independence from China.
Outer Mongolia became a communist nation in the 1920s, remaining so until the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Inner Mongolia has remained a part of China, while the independent state of Tibet was annexed by the Chinese in 1951.
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Life under Communist China
Initially, Inner Mongolia was organised into an autonomous region with greater political rights.
What followed was decades of persecution.
Mr Togochog said government crackdowns started in the 1950s, when tens of thousands of Mongolian elites were accused of being national separatists, suffering politic persecution and imprisonment.
This was just a taste of what came when Chairman Mao declared his decade-long "Cultural Revolution", which saw the destruction of cultural artefacts, societal upheaval and the persecution, imprisonment or death of millions.
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According to a study published by the University of Cambridge, more than 16,000 Mongols were killed and five times that many were maimed.
Mr Togochog said the Mongolian population was "completely devastated by this large-scale genocide campaign".
According to a 2020 census, Mongols have now become a minority within Inner Mongolia, representing just 18 per cent of the total population.
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Amnesty international's Tibetan advocate, Kyinzom Dhongdue, said the new ethnic unity law "unambiguously promotes and reinforces China's long-running policies that have already devastated the rights of Uyghurs, Tibetans and other non-Han ethnic groups".
"The Chinese government is pursuing a long-term project of forced assimilation. Or, as described by Tibetans, a cultural genocide.
"It seeks to fundamentally reshape how Tibetans, Uyghurs and other peoples, including Southern Mongolians speak, learn, worship and, ultimately, understand who they are."
Ms Allen said Chinese President Xi Jinping was pushing China towards a sort of monoculture.
"The very heavy-handed push towards assimilation should be seen through the lens of control and Xi Jinping's paranoia."
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In 2020, protests rocked the region of Inner Mongolia after the Chinese government ordered an end to Mongolian-language classes for first-year primary students, in favour of Mandarin.
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Authorities also began a region-wide censorship campaign, shutting down Mongolian WeChat groups and removing Mongolian-language books from the shelves of retail outlets.
"Southern Mongolians know that this is the last chance to stand as Mongolian People … if you lose your language, you lose everything," Mr Togochog said.
"What is remaining is the language, that's the last defence of the Mongolian national identity … what we call the 'final solution' to the Mongolia question."
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"This is nothing but cultural genocide … they want to make you directly Chinese," Mr Togochog said.
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Ms Allen said the new laws made her "really sad" and she said for many of the ethnic groups inside China, there was no diaspora for them to look to for cultural and linguistic preservation.
"I think it's such a shame for China to be heading in this direction when many other similarly situated countries are working very, very hard to preserve and revive their minority languages."
The linked video is apparently an interview with Zoon Ahmed Khan, analyst and fellow at the Center for China and Globalization ...
The Center for China and Globalization (CCG), based in Beijing, is a member of an alliance of similar organizations, coordinated by the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCG was jointly founded in Beijing in 2008 by Wang Huiyao, a Chinese State Council advisor who is still the organization’s president, and Mabel Miao, the current vice-president and secretary-general. They are the authors of a book, which deals with the question of “how to create new narrative methods and models” for China.
Wang Huiyao is also associated with the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a networks of groups and key individuals that are influenced or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party to advance the interests of the Chinese party-state.
Wang plays multiple policy advisory roles in China in addition to counselor for the State Council (appointed by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015), e.g., as honorable vice chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. He has also served as a director of the China Overseas Friendship Association, an external name for the Ninth Bureau of the UFWD of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang is also vice chairman of the Western Returned Scholars Association, which is under the jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department.[
This is a very tiny summary of the Center for China and Globalization and its founder. You'll easily find multiple sources about this organization and its founders.
As everything else related to the CCG, the linked video is nothing but a propaganda film by the Chinese government.
You're doing your argument a major detriment by not sourcing a single claim, in our fascist internet. Take your time to source everything.
I do it every single comment, for I know YaCy isn't installed everywhere.
You'll find multiple very reliable sources across the web with simple searches. Regarding the the Center's ties with the CCP, Wang's book about Chinese narrative 'models' or and this multiple functions in the Chinese party-state's bureaucracy. The latter is even widely cited in Chinese state media.
I am telling you as a scholar of peerage, you have to properly source claims for illiterates in this network. Otherwise you're assuming search sites haven't banned us.
God forbid a government try to communicate the intent of laws they create.
The the government says the Internet ID verification laws are to protect children, does that make said laws good then?
How do you know these ID verification laws are bad?
Did you, I don't know, READ THE PROPAGANDA AND USE CRITICAL THINKING? I cannot believe you would read the propaganda from such an evil nation?!?
It is crazy how reactionary people get when it comes to China.
Yes, I am aware they have skeletons in their closet, just like the US. If you want to take all your information from western propagandists, which is a neutral term, be my guest.
Why do governments need to exist?
I couldn't say if they need to, but this is the reality we currently live in.
Governments throw propaganda and it is up to journalists and people with critical thinking skills to find out what is the truth.
If you look at NYC, you can see what good governance looks like in America. They just got it, so don't be too harsh.
I am a black anarchist, I am extremely well aware of how authoritarians genocide. This includes NYC, ignoring the people they complied to deathcamps.
I am harsh on genocide. Something demagogues easily ignore.
You sidetracked my question once.