The Chinese government is development AI systems in the languages of China’s ethnic minorities — including Korean — to expand state surveillance and control, an Australian think tank warned. The ...

BEIJING--China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85 percent of its citizens will use the ...

China has passed a sweeping new law aimed at forging a "shared" national identity among the Han Chinese majority and the 55 recognised ethnic minorities, a move Beijing says will strengthen cohesion ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. Many of those languages are at risk of extinction.

China has one of the oldest civilisations in the world, with more than 1.4 billion people, whose territories cover a large and culturally diverse area. With such a huge population and a rich history, ...

During the recently concluded “Two Sessions” annual legislative meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed a new “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” that many scholars and ...

A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”. Detailing the ...

A 2021 Ministry of Education directive—the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan—mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and care, including in ethnic minority areas ...