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I’m so glad that they “ended abject poverty”. He failed to mention it was via forced labor though

• ericls 5y ago
  It’s not ended.
• justicezyx 5y ago
  > He failed to mention it was via forced labor though Except the "Xinjiang forced labor", are there other claims of forced labor in the poverty elimination campaign? I am just curious about the media report landscape, since I have not seen anything other than Xinjiang reports.
  • hkmaxpro 5y ago
    Many Chinese nationals were trafficked or otherwise forced to work in Southeast Asia and elsewhere [0]. They had their passports confiscated by the Chinese companies they worked for. It was also occasionally reported in the media [1][2][3]. [0] https://chinalaborwatch.org/silent-victims-of-labor-trafficking-chinas-belt-and-road-workers-stranded-overseas-amid-covid-19-pandemic/ https://chinalaborwatch.org/silent-victims-of-labor-traffick... [1] https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3051344/sihanoukville-cambodian-magnet-chinese-casinos https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti... [2] https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/life-chinese-online-gambling-workers-manila https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/life-chinese... [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-labor-belt-road-covid/2021/04/30/f110e8de-9cd4-11eb-b2f5-7d2f0182750d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-labo...