China has a right to target people outside of its borders who contravene its new law on ethnic unity, a senior official said on ​Wednesday, adding that this was in line with international practice, and was legal and ‌necessary. China passed the law in March to create a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, which include Tibetans and Uyghurs, some of whom chafe under Chinese rule and have over ​the years often staged protests, some of them violent. The new law, which goes into ​effect on July 1, includes a clause saying people and groups beyond ⁠the borders of the People’s Republic of China can be held legally accountable ​for undermining “ethnic unity and progress or inciting ethnic separatism”.

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