Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, March 14: Advocacy and activist group, Tibet Action Institute (TAI), known for exposing China’s residential boarding school system in Tibet, has strongly condemned the passage of China’s new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” warning that the legislation formalizes policies aimed at erasing Tibetan identity.
China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), approved the law on Thursday during the closing session of its annual parliamentary meeting in Beijing. The legislation, which codifies Beijing’s approach to ethnic governance under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is set to come into effect on July 1, 2026.
In a statement issued shortly after the law’s adoption, TAI said the measure legalizes policies already underway in Tibet and other minority regions, which critics say are designed to forcibly assimilate ethnic minorities into the dominant Han Chinese culture.
“The Chinese government just passed a law authorizing genocide in Tibet,” said Lhadon Tethong, Director of the Tibet Action Institute. “The new law should be seen for what it is: a legal framework for policies already underway, like the coercive system of colonial boarding schools in Tibet, that aim to eradicate Tibetans’ identity as a people.”
According to TAI, the legislation codifies several provisions that directly threaten Tibetan culture, language and identity. Among its key measures, the law requires Mandarin Chinese to be used in official communication and education, significantly weakening the limited protections for minority languages previously recognized under China’s Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law of 1984.
The law also encourages intermarriage between Han Chinese and non-Han ethnic groups, mandates that families and educational institutions teach children loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, and requires that different ethnic groups live in mixed communities to promote integration.
TAI warned that the legislation also empowers authorities to prosecute individuals deemed to be instilling views considered harmful to “ethnic unity” in children. The group said the law could potentially criminalize Tibetan parents who simply advocate for their children to receive education in their mother tongue or seek to preserve their cultural traditions.
“The legalization of the Chinese Communist Party’s policies of forced assimilation intensifies the threat to Tibetan identity and way of life,” the organization said. “It provides a legal basis for criminalizing Tibetans who actively engage with their language, religion and customs.”
The statement also referenced a recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, presented during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, which examined China’s policies targeting Tibetan language and identity. The report described Beijing’s residential boarding school system in Tibet as part of a process of “extermination” of a minority group and warned that the policies aim at “erasing the Tibetan language and identity” by preventing the intergenerational transmission of culture and language.
The rapporteur further argued that such policies could qualify as genocide and should be treated as such by the international community.
China maintains that the law is intended to foster national cohesion and strengthen what it calls a “shared sense of community for the Chinese nation.” Officials say the legislation aims to promote development, integration and common prosperity among China’s 56 officially recognized ethnic groups.
However, scholars and rights groups warn that the law marks a significant shift away from earlier policies that recognized limited ethnic autonomy and language rights, and instead entrenches a framework prioritizing assimilation into a unified national identity under the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP dictator has bared its true colour by criminalising Tibetan language in the guise of so called “ethnic unity”! Unity must come out of harmonious co-existence with each other and not by exterminating the identity of their ethnicity. The Chinese communists are imperialists and colonialists of the worst kind even though they pretend to be anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists! Invasion and occupation of Tibet in 1949/50 is a blatant imperialist act just like America and Israel’s attack on Iran! Nations can attack other nations if they are threatened by them or if United Nations gives the permission to attack but other than that, it is illegal to attack another sovereign country. Communist China was neither threatened by Tibet nor the UN gave sanction to attack Tibet but it ATTACKED TIBET WITHOUT THE ABOVE MENTIONED CRITERIA UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW! THEREFORE, IT CLEARLY VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW BY COMMITTING AGGRESSION ON TIBET IN 1949/50. Therefore, they are no different from the aggression the US and Israel committed against Iran on February 28th 2026. The imperialist Chinese communists invade other countries and take their territories and subject the people to oppression while plundering their rich natural resources unashamedly! If this is imperialism, what is? It forcibly populates the conquered territories with Chinese colonisers under the guise of “development” but in reality, they colonise the conquered land with Chinese population to change the population demographics in order to legitimise their occupation! When the indigenous people resent the colonisers for taking away their land, their livelihood and their freedoms, the CCP imposes rules to criminalise the resentment of the native population by stripping them of their culture, language, religion and identity in the name of “ethnic unity” when in reality it is to exterminate the indigenous people! This a carbon copy of the cultural imperialism perpetrated by the white colonisers on Afro-Asian peoples, Indian American, Australian aboriginals, the Maoris of New Zealand etc for centuries! Today the yellow imperialism and colonialism is rampant as the “yellow peril” as feared by the west is coming to fruition! The forcible removal of more than a million Tibetan children from their homes to be brought up as Chinese by stripping them of their language, culture, religion and identity was practised by imperialist white America against the American Indians to wipe them out! Communist China pretends to be anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists but in REALITY, IT IS A CARBON COPY OF THE WHITE EUROPEAN IMPERIALISTS OF YESTER YEARS! IT IS PRACTISING THE SAME EVIL PRACTISE THAT IT CLAIMED TO BE AGAINST. WHEN THE CHINESE FIRST INVADED TIBET, THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY CAME TO TIBET TO “DRIVE OUT THE IMPERIALISTS” AS A CONVENIENT DECOY! TODAY, IT IS COMMITTING THE SAME CRIMES AND ATROCITIES THE WHITE EUROPEANS COMMITTED UPON THEIR TIBETAN VICTIMS! The Asian and African people fought the cruel, inhuman, greedy colonialists and imperialists and won their freedom. TIBETANS WILL FIGHT THE CRUEL, EVIL AND GREEDY CHINESE COMMUNISTS IMPERIALISTS AND THEIR DEPRAVED WAYS AND GAIN COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE! Communist China is ENEMY OF THE WORLD AND ESPECIALLY THE ENEMY OF THE SIX MILLION TIBETANS! Henceforth, Tibetans should start BURNING THE BLOOD SOAKED CHINESE COMMUNIST FLAG AND THE EFFIGIES OF THE EVIL DICTATOR XI JINPIENG! The CCP has no regard, nor respect for the Tibetan people and their civilisation. Therefore, we should not have any respect for them! Now, every Tibetan must recognise the evil nature and ultimate goal of the despicable Chinese communist regime and fight without any regard whatsoever against the regime! The great English writer Charles Dickens said,”Do unto others what they do unto you”! Do to the enemy CCP regime what it is doing against Tibet and its subjugated people!