{"id":22652,"date":"2026-07-13T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22652"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:28:39","slug":"chinas-new-ethnic-unity-law-comes-into-effect-inside-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22652","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s new ethnic unity law comes into effect | Inside Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools in China can no longer teach primarily in an ethnic language. Mandarin must be the primary language in all schools. China is more generally cracking down on ethnic minorities in its ethnic unity law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China is a colonial empire that has conquered its land by force, and it is stepping up its forced&nbsp;assimilation of its formerly conquered peoples.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China&amp;apos;s new ethnic unity law comes into effect | Inside Story\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FE2dDhCYTV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in China can no longer teach primarily in an ethnic language. Mandarin must be the primary language in all schools. China is more generally cracking down on ethnic minorities in its ethnic unity law. <\/p>\n<p>China is a colonial empire that has conquered its land by force, and it is stepping up its forced assimilation of its formerly conquered peoples. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FE2dDhCYTV8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2106,1104,864,89,1774,660,86,1908,1216,992,1178],"class_list":["post-22652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assimilation","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-china","tag-colonialism","tag-dictatorship","tag-discrimination","tag-empire","tag-ethnicity","tag-language","tag-minority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22653,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions\/22653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}