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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to consume. For decades, the regime has systematically attacked anyone who dares to exist outside its rigid ideological mold. Under Xi Jinping, this obsession has reached a fever pitch. We are witnessing a relentless campaign to completely erase the civilizations and freedoms of the Uighurs, Tibetans, Southern Mongols and Hongkongers.
Now, the regime has codified this cultural erasure into law. On July 1, 2026, the so-called “Law for the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into force. Don’t be fooled by its Orwellian title. It’s not about unity; It is an attempt to dismantle civilizations. It is a plan of genocide written in stone, designed to crush every distinctive element of individual identity until nothing remains but forced devotion to the State.
This legislation is a sweeping sweep designed to permanently silence all groups under Beijing’s shadow. Beyond the Uyghurs and Tibetans, it actively targets the cultural preservation of the Southern Mongols, the basic rights of Hongkongers, the existence of Falun Gong practitioners, and the survival of independent Chinese interfaith communities that refuse to submit to state-imposed ideological conformity.
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Furthermore, this internal erasure is a direct precursor to external aggression. This same totalitarian playbook poses an existential threat to Taiwan’s vibrant democracy and serves as a warning to free societies around the world. If the world does not recognize that internal subjugation is the basis of global authoritarian expansion, it risks validating a plan intended to challenge freedom far beyond Asia. Under this law, for Uyghur girls, refusing to marry Han Chinese can be treated as a criminal act. Mother tongue education is effectively banned and replaced entirely by state-mandated Mandarin. Parents are legally required to program their children to “love the CCP,” while citizens are incentivized to spy on their neighbors and report any deviations from state-approved thinking.
For me, this nightmare is not an abstract political concept. It is a personal and bleeding wound.
In September 2018, just six days after I spoke on a panel in Washington, DC exposing the reality of China’s concentration camps, the CCP retaliated. They kidnapped my sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, a retired medical professional who has never committed a crime in her life. She was convicted of trumped-up and baseless charges in a sham and secret trial. He had just turned sixty-four, two weeks ago. For nearly eight agonizing years, my family has been forced to sit and count the days of his unjust detention, enduring his absence as a direct consequence of my freedom of expression.
My sister’s stolen life is the true face of the PCC’s “ethnic unity.”
However, Article 63 carries a global threat to freedom of expression and sovereignty, stating that “organizations and individuals outside the territory of the People’s Republic of China” that undermine its version of ethnic unity will be undermined. This brazen power grab gives the CCP the absurd right to attack anyone, anywhere on Earth. If you speak out against genocide or defend basic human rights from Washington, London or Tokyo, Beijing now claims the authority to freeze your assets or place a bounty on your head.
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Just three months ago, on March 30, the terrifying reality of China’s transnational repression hit my husband, Abdulhakim Idris, a U.S. citizen and executive director of the Center for Uyghur Studies. He landed in Malaysia for a legal academic trip to launch the Malay edition of his book “Threat: Chinese Colonization of the Islamic World and the Uyghur Genocide”, which exposes the CCP’s crimes against the Uyghur people. Under intense pressure from the Chinese government, Malaysian authorities arrested him. He was held in an airport holding cell for nearly 22 hours, denied sufficient food and water, stripped of his U.S. passport, and eventually forced to board a plane back to the United States under escort.
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If this is what the CCP can orchestrate before Article 63 comes into force, it is deeply alarming how emboldened it will become once it claims a legal pretext to hunt down dissidents globally. We have already seen them offer rewards to Hong Kong activists using similar extraterritorial clauses. This law will rapidly accelerate that danger, casting a chilling shadow over academia, journalism, and the defense of international human rights. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, Human Rights experts and democratic leaders around the world have sounded the alarm about this law, warning that it violates the fundamental principles of international law and the sovereignty of States. Conviction is not enough.
On July 1, the CCP took off its mask and declared war on diversity, truth and global freedom. We cannot wait for the next activist to be extradited or silenced. Democratic governments must act immediately to issue a collective warning to Beijing: we will not tolerate totalitarian laws on our soil and we will protect our citizens from transnational repression. The world must remain firm, because when something this perverse comes, silence is complicity.