China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote “ethnic unity” - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.

On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.

It mandates that all children should be taught Mandarin before kindergarten and up until the end of high school. Previously students could study most of the curriculum in their native language such as Tibetan, Uyghur or Mongolian.

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    2 hours ago

    My basic critical reasoning says that China is a fascist nation that supplies arms to several conflict regions and has produced more billionaires than the US this and last year. I find it funny they “fought the fascists” to just become fascist themselves. So they lost around 50 million citizens between the cultural revolution and the famine for nothing.

    That is what my basic logic tells me.