China Wants To Erase 135 Million People (And it's Working)
Simon Whistler · March 20, 2026 · 24 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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China has a problem, not with its economy, not with its military, but with something far more complicated. It's people. About 135 million of them to be exact.
Despite making up a little under 10% of the Chinese citizenry, non-hen Chinese of a population of the same size as Mexico. And every single one of their lives is about to change. Because the Chinese government has just passed a brand new national unity law, which sounds nice until you actually read said law.
Beijing says the new law is about ethnic unity and prosperity. Critics say it's about assimilation. And quite.
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China’s new National Unity Law targets 135 million minorities, pushing assimilation in the name of unity. But behind the policy lies control, cultural erasure, and a strategy reshaping the nation’s future.
