How China Is Breaking Apart a People and Its Culture

A must-read exposé from the Financial Times features key research and insight from VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz on China’s cultural genocide against the Uyghurs. Journalist Alison Killing argues that the CCP has entered a new phase of repression, expanding its system of forced labour through labour transfer programs that make it increasingly difficult for companies to perform due diligence in their China-linked supply chains.

As Killing writes, this “employment scheme is Beijing’s new priority, says Adrian Zenz, director of China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a US non-profit. The camp system acted as a ‘catalyst’ for policies including ‘birth prevention, parent-child separation, boarding schooling . . . and labour transfer.’ What the state orchestrated through the boarding school system amounted to a “dramatic tearing apart of Uyghur society,” Zenz adds. He says children are separated from families at increasingly young ages, while the Uyghur language and cultural practices are heavily restricted.”