China’s Ethnic Unity Law Signals a Broader Shift Toward Identity Standardization
The Diplomat assesses China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress as a comprehensive framework to ‘forge’ a unified national identity through education, language policy, mobility, development, and religious governance. Its extraterritorial clause draws attention, but the larger signal is an institutionalized, assimilation-oriented approach extending beyond Xinjiang and Tibet to all recognized ethnic groups.