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How Beijing’s New Law Seeks to Crush Dissent Worldwide | Guermantes Lailari
China’s new ethnic unity law has taken effect, and it’s going to be used to justify and expand transnational repression overseas in combination with existing laws on promoting “separatism,” said Guermantes Lailari, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and longtime China researcher.
“In this new ethnic law, they encourage people to report on other Chinese who are not promoting ‘unity.’” Lailari said.
“So if you’re a Chinese person in the United States promoting Taiwan, they can prosecute you in absentia, and the court will have a ruling. And they can put out a red notice or Interpol…
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