China's 'push towards assimilation' could drive its minorities to extinction
China's new ethnic unity law is threatening to make the languages and culture of 55 different ethnic groups extinct.
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Wind blows across the grassy steppes as the Great Wall looms long in the distance, marking the ancient barrier between Mongolia and China.
Gone are the days when its stones would shake with the thundering hoof-beats of Mongol hordes.
The nomadic horsemen have been displaced from their pastures into city apartments in the Chinese Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
On July 2, in New York City, Tibetan man Lobga Rangzen approached the United Nations headquarters and set himself on fire in an act of political protest.
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