Pinned
A confident nation does not need to manufacture national consciousness.
China’s new ethnic unity law reveals the Party-state’s deeper anxiety: unity is no longer assumed, but engineered, monitored, and enforced.
My latest for @ChinaBriefJT:
James Leibold
@jleibold
Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University. All things 民族
- New in @ForeignAffairs: @tendor and I argue that China’s new ethnic-unity law does not abolish minority autonomy on paper. It does something more insidious: it gives statutory force to assimilation while hollowing autonomy out in practice. foreignaffairs.com/china/next-pha…?
- The Inner Mongolian Steppe is now a Server Farm
- China’s “soul-casting” project has acquired a new blueprint. open.substack.com/pub/jamesleibo…. I'm trying something different in the hope of eventually unplugging from Musk-machine and reclaiming my own soul. #substack
- I share some preliminary thoughts on the PRC's new Law on Ethnic Unity & Progress with @nightlightguy in this @latrobeasia Asia Rising podcast. More thoughts to follow...
