The Secret of the Chinese Economy

Posted by janepeterson 132 days ago (http://www.unmadeinchina.org)
Category: Financial | Tags: chinese goods little cost long work hours child labor

What is the secret of the Chinese economy?

Often when we try to understand the reason why Chinese goods (shoes, clothes, toys, gadgets…) cost so little, the answers we are given by newspapers and television shows are always the same: incredibly long work hours, child labor, the low salaries paid to the local work force.

But what they don’t talk about, (if not in a hidden way), are the tortures, the killings, the illegal traffic of organs, the abuse and the horrors that millions of people are subjected to every day.

In China the abundant work force often costs nothing: they are prisoners condemned to hard labor.

Further, the raw materials are sometimes the prisoners themselves: their dead bodies are used for the cosmetic industry and the illegal traffic of organs.

We are referring to are the Laogai, which in Chinese means “reform, reeducation through work.”

These are the concentration camps which are the foundation of the Chinese prison system as well as its “economic” system.
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