The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a Dharamshala-based non government organisation, reports that a Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) have decreed that all preschool children will be taught Mandarin Chinese The MoE’s “’Children Homophony’ Plan for Putonghua Education for Preschool Children” came into force on September 1 with the aim of building “a sense of community for the Chinese nation” from an early age”.