{"id":22823,"date":"2020-09-18T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang-labour-operation-emerge-as-china-defends-camps"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:14:27","slug":"clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang-labour-operation-emerge-as-china-defends-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22823","title":{"rendered":"Clues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing white paper says an average of 1.29 million workers a year have gone through \u2018vocational training\u2019 between 2014 and 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, in a white paper that also revealed some details of the breadth of its labour program.<\/p>\n<p>In the document published on Thursday, Beijing called them \u201cvocational training centres\u201d , saying: \u201cThrough its proactive labor and employment policies, Xinjiang has continuously improved the people\u2019s material and cultural lives, and guaranteed and developed their human rights in every field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang-labour-operation-emerge-as-china-defends-camps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing white paper says an average of 1.29 million workers a year have gone through \u2018vocational training\u2019 between 2014 and 2019The Chinese Communist party government has defended its system of internment camps for Uighur and other ethnic minorities in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823\/revisions\/22824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}