Under its decision, the CTA will dedicate the week to “preserving and strengthening the unique linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage of the Tibetan people,” said its Tibet.net website Aug 27. The report said that China’s Ethnic Unity Law “fundamentally seeks to Sinicise the country’s 55 officially recognised ‘ethnic minority groups’—particularly those with distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identities, such as Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, and Uyghurs—by subsuming them into the Han majority under the pretext of promoting ‘Zhonghua Minzu’” (meaning Chinese Nation in its grand, civilizational sense).
lørdag 29. august 2026
Exile administration designates Tibetan Identity Preservation Week in face of China’s Sinicization drive
The Kashag (Cabinet) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Aug 21 decided to observe the fourth week of every September as Tibetan Identity Preservation Week in response to China’s “Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law” (Ethnic Unity Law), which came into force on Jul 1. In this connection, it bears noting that in December last year, China passed a revised law which designated the third week of September every year as the week for a nationwide promotion of the standard spoken and written Chinese language.
Under its decision, the CTA will dedicate the week to “preserving and strengthening the unique linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage of the Tibetan people,” said its Tibet.net website Aug 27. The report said that China’s Ethnic Unity Law “fundamentally seeks to Sinicise the country’s 55 officially recognised ‘ethnic minority groups’—particularly those with distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identities, such as Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, and Uyghurs—by subsuming them into the Han majority under the pretext of promoting ‘Zhonghua Minzu’” (meaning Chinese Nation in its grand, civilizational sense).
Under its decision, the CTA will dedicate the week to “preserving and strengthening the unique linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage of the Tibetan people,” said its Tibet.net website Aug 27. The report said that China’s Ethnic Unity Law “fundamentally seeks to Sinicise the country’s 55 officially recognised ‘ethnic minority groups’—particularly those with distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identities, such as Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, and Uyghurs—by subsuming them into the Han majority under the pretext of promoting ‘Zhonghua Minzu’” (meaning Chinese Nation in its grand, civilizational sense).