For decades the Chinese government has been accused of implementing repressive policies designed to subjugate ethnic minorities, forcing them to assimilate into the dominant Han culture. Now a new law set to be rubber-stamped through the country’s annual parliamentary session later this week will solidify, expand and even speed up this process, further threatening the rights of minority groups and their way of life, academics and human rights activists say. The Chinese government, however, defends it as crucial for promoting “modernisation through greater unity” and calls it the law for “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”.

Full report : A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.