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Expert: China Touts Its ‘Poverty Alleviation’ Policies, But They’re Actually Cover For Forced Labor

Ashe Schow
Expert: China Touts Its ‘Poverty Alleviation’ Policies, But They’re Actually Cover For Forced Labor
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One of the United States’ most respected experts on China’s oppression of Muslim minorities says the communist nation’s touted “poverty alleviation” is nothing more than forced labor.

Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C., recently wrote an article for Foreign Policy detailing how China lies to the international community about how it treats Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, particularly Uyghurs:

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