China’s revised national language law punishes those who ‘interfere’ with others’ learning, use of Mandarin

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(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’25) – China’s top legislature has passed a revised Law on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language on Dec 27 and it will come into force on Jan 1, 2026. The new law will have grave implications for linguistic identity of the people in the ethnic monitory areas, given President Xi Jinping’s ongoing signature campaign to Sinicize them in the name of strengthening the sense of the Chinese nation as one community.

To begin with, the new law designates the third week of September as the week for a nation-wide promotion for the standard spoken and written Chinese language. In the ethnic minority areas, this event will no doubt be used to demonstrate what percentage of th...

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