China's white paper on forced labour suggests unease at western pressure

Document defending camps for Uighurs released days after US blocked some Xinjiang importsClues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends campsChina’s new white paper on forced labour in Xinjiang suggests a government uneasy about growing western pressure over abuses of Muslim minorities in the regionIt also gives a rare, if oblique, glance into the scale of government attempts to reshape communities in the region, detailing how 10% of the region’s population were relocated over the past year, after being dubbed “surplus rural workers”. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/china-white-paper-forced-labour-xinjiang-uighurs #xinjiang #uighurs #china