New education policy aims to impose the Chinese Communist Party’s political agenda from cradle to grave, commentators say
China’s new education policy poses existential threats to the language and culture of ethnic Mongolians in the Inner Mongolia region. (Photo: YouTube)
Communist China’s move to expand compulsory Mandarin Chinese language education using Chinese textbooks in preschools across the country is part of “cultural genocide” in Inner Mongolia and other regions with distinct cultures, activists and commentators say.
Education authorities have instructed kindergarten schools in ethnic minority and rural areas to introduce Mandarin if they are not doing it already starting from the September semester, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Aug. 11.
To ensure a steady supply of qualified teachers for the scheme, the government has…