Mandarin forced on Mongolian children as China changes language policy
Some say the move was prompted by a directive by President Xi Jinping in a bid to ‘safeguard ideological security’
01 September 2020 - 14:40
Beijing — Chinese government efforts to replace the language of instruction in schools in Inner Mongolia appear to have backfired, prompting parents and students to boycott classes and take to the streets in protest, videos from human rights activists show.
One video posted to YouTube by the New York-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre showed middle school students breaking through police barricades. In another, students lined up and shouted demands. The rights group said the video was shot at the Naiman Mongolian Middle School in Tongliao, in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia...
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