An escalating crisis faces the Uyghur in China. The newly enacted Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress legalises forced assimilation, erases linguistic rights, and expands state surveillance. It provides a permanent legal framework for the ongoing campaign of mass re-education camps, long-term imprisonment, and cultural erasure of China's minorities.

Guest: Yalkun Uluyol (China Researcher, Human Rights Watch)

Host: Emeritus Professor James Leibold (Asian Studies, La Trobe University)

Recorded 22nd May, 2026.