A recently released United Nations agency report compiles evidence that China has dramatically expanded its state-sponsored slavery program tormenting Tibetans and the indigenous Turkic communities of East Turkistan, forcing rural people off their land and making them pick cotton and work in factories to make solar panels.
The revelations are part of a global report published by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a United Nations entity, on Monday. The ILO extensively cites research by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) indicating that the Chinese Communist Party has evolved its slavery program away from the concentration camps popular in East Turkistan for much of 2017 through 2020 and into what it calls the “liberation” of “surplus” rural workers into manufacturing and processing.
Slavery is a major component of the Chinese government’s…
