New PRC Ethnic Unity and Progress Law enforces assimilation of Tibetans, contradicts national and international law

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On March 12, 2026, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the new law of the People’s Republic of China on “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The legislation advances a PRC strategy of demographic homogenization for Tibetans and other non-Chinese peoples behind anodyne language that ostensibly “helps better support people of all ethnic groups across the country in advancing national development and rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.”

Several provisions in the law serve to legitimize Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies forcing Tibetans and others to assimilate into the CCP-defined “Chinese” nation, according to analysis by the International Campaign for Tibet (I...

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