📆 Sunday 30 August 2026, 4pm Britain, 11am US Eastern, 8am US Pacific, 11pm China
Getting to the truth about China’s new Ethnic Unity Law, and answering the hysterical reactions of Western media and politicians.
China’s Ethnic Unity Law has been the occasion for a fresh wave of misrepresentation in the Western press, in which it is presented as the erasure of minority languages and cultures. In fact the law explicitly reaffirms the right of all peoples to use and develop their own spoken and written languages, and prohibits discrimination against any ethnic group – as we have recently discussed.
This international webinar brings together speakers from China, the United States, Canada and Britain to explain what the law actually says, to compare the treatment of national minorities in China and the United States, and to hear eye-witness accounts from Xinjiang and Xizang (Tibet). Hear how all China’s people get free education, health care, housing and equal rights.
Speakers
- Chen Weihua (EU Bureau Chief, China Daily)
- Carlos Martinez (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)
- Jason Smith (China talk show host and long-time US resident in China, specialising in Xinjiang and Xizang/Tibet)
- Jacqueline Luqman (Black Alliance for Peace) – a comparison of “minority” policies in the US and China
- Arnold August – eye-witness account from Xizang/Tibet
- Sara Flounders (Secretary, Friends of Socialist China US) – eye-witness account from Xinjiang
For background on the Western attacks on the law, see China’s Ethnic Unity Law: What Western Media Leaves Out in LA Progressive.
The event is being organised by Friends of Socialist China US Committee, the United National Antiwar Coalition and the International Manifesto Group.
