Anonymous21 days ago
China's National People's Congress passed the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress on March 12, 2026, mandating Mandarin as the primary language of instruction in all schools and requiring children to learn Mandarin from preschool onward. The legislation, which follows a December 2025 revision to China's language law, effectively ends minority-language education as a primary medium of instruction and has drawn fierce criticism from human rights organizations who warn it will accelerate the extinction of dozens of endangered languages and force cultural assimilation of China's 125 million ethnic minority citizens.