Beijings long arm: The law that turns exile into a target
Bangladesh, July 5 -- For a Tibetan in exile, freedom has always carried a shadow. You may leave the checkpoint, the police file, the school where your language was pushed aside, the monastery watched by cameras, the homeland renamed through someone elses vocabulary. But you do not fully leave the reach of the state. A phone call from home can arrive with a police officer standing beside your mother. A protest photograph can become a threat to your brother. A speech in London, New York, Dharamshala, Toronto, Paris or Taipei can be described in Beijing not as freedom of expression, but as “separatism.” That is why Article 63 of Chinas new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is not a small legal clause. It is a warning wr...
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