Here's a new angle on the usual racist, warmongering propaganda that makes these "anti-war" politicians lock arms with the most rabidly fascist US politicians. Let's have a butcher's at what's being "reported" now in this thread!
Australian Strategic Policy Institute? Oh you mean the "non partisan" right wing pro-regime change think tank created by the Australian government with the aid of the Department of Defense.
They say they're independent though, that's probably true, right?
They say they're independent though, that's probably true, right?
Wrong!
Ooh boy that's a rogues' gallery of companies involved in genocide, war crimes, regime change, imperialism and more.
Ooh boy that's a rogues' gallery of companies involved in genocide, war crimes, regime change, imperialism and more.
Let's look at the "report" itself.
As is usual for these racist-ass reports, a lot of the citations aren't citations at all! Some of them, including the very first one, are just footnotes! But they make the thing look really professional and well researched, no?
As is usual for these racist-ass reports, a lot of the citations aren't citations at all! Some of them, including the very first one, are just footnotes! But they make the thing look really professional and well researched, no?
Other citations, such as 4 here, link to official or third-party articles which don't provide the actual citation for what's being claimed and often actually claim the opposite thing.
A huge part of China's poverty alleviation drive involves relocating workers from underdeveloped areas to areas which need labor - this usually comes in the form of what the Party calls "surplus rural labor" being relocated to western provinces in need of workers.
Documents outlining the responsibilities the government and enterprises have regarding these workers (transportation, housing, fair wages, etc) are often intentionally misread as being indicative of a transfer of prisoner labor.
As I'm sure you all know by now, "international condemnation" means 22 countries (nearly all of them European, NATO member, white majority, imperialist countries) marching in lockstep with the Trump administration's propaganda, just like Omar here is doing.
This one's new, too: a "price per head" for transferred immates? Surely evil, authoritarian China doesn't need to PAY anybody to accept "slave labor", right?
Let's look at the citation! *crowd laughs*
Let's look at the citation! *crowd laughs*
Look at that, it's precisely what I talked about earlier: the transfer of surplus labor to alleviate poverty. The "rewards" are kept vague but they follow a certain pattern, which can be summed up as "help with poverty alleviation".
Specifically: "Organizations that successfully recommend, introduce, and organize the transfer of rural surplus labor to employment in the family service industry within the county and city are rewarded according to (...) criteria". Workers are rewarded too.
The document also outlines bonuses for long term labor contracts and involving families designated as "identified by the poverty alleviation department". It also stipulates that "the income of farmers increase significantly".
Since a lot of these surplus rural workers don't even speak Mandarin, the labor transfer program helps each batch of workers (usually 50) by setting up a night school with lessons for Chinese law, Mandarin language, etc as well as individual coaching
The aim of these lessons is to make sure the workers are able to help their hometown prosper and grow once their contracts are up. One official outlet mentions a Uyghur woman whose work stood out and was able to open a supermarket in her Xinjiang hometown upon returning.
