China Muslims: Volkswagen says 'no forced labour' at Xinjiang plant

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Source: BBC

In an interview with the BBC in Beijing, the company's CEO in China, Stephan Wollenstein, defended Volkswagen's presence in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, where it runs a factory with 600 workers, producing up to 20,000 vehicles a year.

While China insists it has been providing de-extremification training for Xinjiang's traditionally Muslim minorities, and running large-scale job creation schemes, the real aim appears to be the forced assimilation of identities and cultures now viewed by the state as inherently disloyal.

With the number of cars being produced currently less than 10% of capacity of some of the company's 32 other plants in China, Dr Wollenstein said they would "Love to do more."

"And as much as we are to a certain extent dependent on China, probably China is also dependent on us.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54918309

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1. Frontline Last Tuesday...?

Second generation surveillance state. Awful. Appalling. Creepy. Uyghur, meet your new ‘relative’, a Han Chinese secret police officer who will live with you and your family 24/7. That was the least of it, if not the most visceral. Corporate actors marketing this technology to governments around the planet. Facial recognition software looking for negative facial expressions?

‘Grin and smile at the change all around me’. We are so far beyond getting Fooled Again. Ghastly. Mosques being blown up, people getting ‘educated’. Third Reich without the gas chambers.