{"id":22953,"date":"2020-09-22T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/report-charts-chinas-expansion-of-mass-labour-programme-in-tibet"},"modified":"2020-09-22T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:59:09","slug":"report-charts-chinas-expansion-of-mass-labour-programme-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22953","title":{"rendered":"Report charts China&#8217;s expansion of mass labour programme in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher says 500,000 rural workers trained for factories this year in programme likened to Xinjiang operations<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities are dramatically expanding a mass labour programme in Tibet, which analysts have compared to alleged forced labour operations in Xinjiang, according to evidence compiled by a German anthropologist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive\/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT\">corroborated by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China has set quotas to move hundreds of thousands of Tibetan rural labourers off their land and into \u201cmilitary-style\u201d facilities to train them as factory workers, according to documents analysed by researcher Adrian Zenz <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet\/\">for <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/jamestown-early-warning-brief-xinjiangs-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet\/\">the Jamestown Foundation<\/a>, a US research institute.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/report-charts-chinas-expansion-of-mass-labour-programme-in-tibet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher says 500,000 rural workers trained for factories this year in programme likened to Xinjiang operationsChinese authorities are dramatically expanding a mass labour programme in Tibet, which analysts have compared to alleged forced labour oper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,50,609,42,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-tibet","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22954,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions\/22954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}