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China’s ethnic unity law shifts focus toward “holistic governance”

The law, effective this month, has raised concerns in the US and EU over claims of forced assimilation and possible extraterritorial application.

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China’s newly effective Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress signals a policy shift in Beijing from managing specific ethnic matters to pursuing assimilation, according to an ethnologist at the Central Party School, as detailed by China’s state media.

An article in Beijing Daily said the law changes the focus of China’s ethnic work from what it called transactional governance to holistic governance aimed at building what it describes as a Chinese national community.

The law has prompted concern from the United States and the European Union, which have questioned whether the framework could amount to forced assimilation and whether it might be applied beyond China’s borders.

The Beijing Daily piece also framed the Central Party School, where the ethnologist is based, as part of a broader system tied to the ideological training that President Xi Jinping considers important for the Communist Party’s ideological purity.

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