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To: MadIvan
Known Laogai Camps in each of China's Provinces:

The Laogai—China’s vast network of forced labor camps—is not a dying or insignificant institution as some have suggested. On the contrary, the Chinese government continues to use this Gulag system as a major tool of suppression of dissent and a mechanism for sustaining absolute control over China’s population.

Nor can we disregard the patently illegal export of products made with forced labor. The exploitation of forced labor in the Laogai has remained an integral part of China’s modernization drive. The Laogai itself has benefited greatly form the opening of China to international commerce and access to hard currency through the export of its products: everything from socks to diesel engines, raw cotton to processed graphite.

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China is using "free trade" is modernize, forced labor is integral to China's modernization.
175 posted on 01/12/2006 9:32:49 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
Again, you are so utterly stupid I wonder if you have two brain cells to rub together.

Let's try this one more time -

So, you actually believe that economic sanctions work then?

If you do, then you're right there with the Democrats who believe sanctions on Iraq just needed more time.

Ivan

179 posted on 01/12/2006 11:22:19 PM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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