Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat
Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat
Derbyshire woman who bought item said she felt uneasy at find that raises concerns over possible prison labour
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Slave labor?
For all we know it could be the exact same thing the US does with our prisoner work programs.
So if we're going to call out China, can we please stop doing it here too?
B-but China bad
Both? Both. Both is good.
Sure, but the sheer number of warcrimes the US has committed in foreign countries, like the 1973 Chilean coup to overthrow the democratically elected Salvador Allende and install a military dictatorship, or the 1965 Indonesian mass killings etc. aren't even comparable to China, or any other country for that matter.
Not to mention the Palestinian genocide they're funding right now. At least China handles extremist groups like the ETIM by 're-educating' them and assimilating them into the rest of the country. As fucked up as that is since it's cultural repression, at least they're not fucking bombing them.
I'm sure you can Google china warcrimes as well. Assuming you're not inside the great firewall of China, that is. Let's not pretend China is good just because US is bad.
Never said they were good. Just that it's absurd to compare China to the sheer amount of death and destruction the US has selfishly caused, and continues to cause, everywhere in the world for the profit of the ruling class.
as opposed to the exact same thing China does for the profit of their ruling class, but worse
Since Xiaoping's market reforms, China has nationalized numerous exploitative private companies, decreased working hours to 8 per day, improved working conditions, gotten rid of hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials, purged greedy billionaires like Jack Ma, and built the most extensive high-speed rail and public transport system in the world.
China, with 5x the population of the US, had 121k covid deaths, while the US had 1.2mil. Because the latter prioritizes capital/profit over human lives, while China does the opposite.
These are clearly in the interest of the Proletariat/working class, not the ruling class; China has actively punished the latter.
And all that without overthrowing foreign governments and causing genocides. So how is China even comparable to the US, aside from their economic growth? Has it ever occurred to you that maybe western media tries to show their geopolitical rivals in a bad light, even when they're objectively better?
wait, you are using the propaganda figures of an authoritarian shithole that openly genocides one ethnicity after the other as your source?
ya, if you go by that logic, I'd just use PraugerU and claim that America is a morally pure nation who's only problem is the existence of civil rights...
The Covid deaths are from WHO, what the fuck are you talking about?
authoritarian shithole
The irony of saying that in context of the US where 0.7% of the population is in jail, lmao.
There is an actual genocide happening in Palestine. Even the US State department says there are no mass killings in Xinjiang, likely because the US can't infiltrate and cause one like they did in Indonesia.
You are using genocide differently than the State Department. You are saying “genocide” to mean “lots of people die”. That’s not what it means. The State Department is using it in the legal definition under the Genocide Convention. They are saying that they can’t prove every element of the crime. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Just means that they can’t prove it.
That’s why the State Department concluded China’s actions “only” amounted to Crimes Against Humanity.
Genocide is a LEGAL term with a specific legal meaning. You are comparing apples and oranges the way you are blithely throwing the term around.
How's Evergrande doing? What about Chinese property in general? All that ghost housing the population have sunk their savings into is appreciating nicely, yes? What's the birth rate like in China now vs 60 years ago by the way? How's that compare to other powers? What's the average age of the Chinese population, again? And boy howdy the Uighurs are going to be glad the CCP aren't into genocide.
It's not a good idea to trust the numbers the CCP provides (if you can even get recent ones). I don't pretend the US is good, but I'm not about to suck the dick of any country like you are just because they're not America.
All that ghost housing the population have sunk their savings into is appreciating nicely, yes?
Funny how everyone complains about US investors sitting on property makes housing unaffordable and also complains that surplus housing in China makes housing a bad investment.
Everyone hates everything.
Are you trying to imply that everywhere is the same? Different places, different problems, different causes.
Surplus housing was built in China because the population needed a safe investment for their savings. The stock market is too volatile, and investing overseas is tightly controlled, so housing has been the choice because it lasts.
In the US, there's a conflux of factors that's led to a housing shortage, then the pandemic exacerbated that situation, and now spiking interest rates are making it unaffordable to move for the few who did manage to buy a home with their meagre resources. Then, of course, there's institutional investment buying up single-family homes and driving up prices even more.
The point is that China is not some perfect übermensch, even compared to the US, and anyone claiming otherwise needs to be corrected.
Last I heard, Evergrade's chairman was selling their luxury property to pay for the debt. And you guys are still calling planned cities 'ghost housing'? Lmao. Cool name though. I'd say the US could learn from it, but they're unlikely to do something that's not profitable.
You do realize you can google things yourself, right? China's demographics are similar to the US, though, afaik.
the Uighurs are going to be glad the CCP aren’t into genocide.
Like I said in another comment, even the US State department says there are no mass killings in Xinjiang, and those guys would love to report otherwise. It's probably not good there, though. Bad Empanada looked into it, and there seems to be cultural repression going on. He has sources in the video's description.
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If by assimilating them, you mean castrating the men and raping their women, sure
No one asked for a definition of whataboutism.
Have to pay the prisoners a prevailing wage in the USA when working for private businesses.
Edit: You don't need to pay them the prevailing wage when they are not working for private companies so. If they are cooking or cleaning in the prison or making license plates they make peanuts.
Seems China underpays their prison labourers but they should get paid. Should.
Edit 2: I kept looking and there is a lack of evidence from what I wrote other than the US government saying they get a prevailing wage, nobody seems to give an exact number of what they make. China actually gives a number. 600 yuan a month in 2019. Take that as you will.
That prevailing wage? Most prison laborers in America make less than $0.50 an hour If they're even paid at all, and are severely punished if they try to take a sick day.
I can't find anything that specifically says that Walmart, Wendy's, McDonald's or any of the other ones pays even minimum wage to prison laborers, but these businesses do get a $2,400 tax credit for each work release inmate they employ. The work release inmates are probably paid a real wage because they count as real people but I have trouble believing they would ever pay more than they absolutely had to for an inmate's labor.
Thats correct when it's not private industry. So if they make license plates as that's government owned they can pay them whatever they want.
I'll throw an edit in my comment. Thought I made it clear enough.
I suggest you update your information, because there are plenty of inmates working for less than prevailing wage in the US.
It came out a couple years ago that inmates in my state were raising goats and making goat cheese for Whole Foods. The wage for prisoners here is $2/day. There’s a state somewhere to my east where prisoners work at Burger King for similar wages.