Foreign Affairs
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Chinese state has long been interested in suppressing the diversity of languages spoken in the mainland and, more recently, its special administrative regions.
Through state policy, it elevates Mandarin as the sole national language and devalues all other languages.
Chinese state sees expressions of Chinese identity that are different or diverse as unimportant, and threatening at worst.
The case of the Hong Kong Language Learning Association is the most recent and public, but it comes on the heels of years of heightened rhetoric from the Chinese central government and its allies in Hong Kong that downplays non-Mandarin Chinese languages as “nothing more than dialects” that do not deserve the kind of status and clout afforded to the Chinese national language.
People in China and Hong Kong are quietly accepting the stiffening of authoritarian rule.
But resistance to Beijing ’s increasing authoritarian rule is most palpable in Hong Kong .
The 2019 protests brought the unique identity of Hong Kong to the forefront, as more and more Hong Kongers refused to identify with their overarching national identity.
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