obedient workers and so forth

Dec. 30, 2019

 The labor bureau of Qapqal ordered that villagers should

undergo military-style training to convert them into

obedient workers, loyal to employers and the ruling

Communist Party.  “Turn around their ingrained lazy, lax,

slow, sloppy, freewheeling, individualistic ways so they obey

company rules,” the directive said.

  The government maintains that the Uighur and Kazakh villagers are “rural surplus labor” and are an underemployed population that threatens social stability….

  Jinfujie has said it won an order from Germany to make

hundreds of thousands of ski pants.  Jinfujie would not

answer question about the claimed order.  During a recenvisit

Times reporterswere barred by guards from visiting the

Jinfujie factory or the surrounding industrial zone….

   The government’s goals are sweeping.  One plan issued in 2018 called for putting to work 100,000 people from the poorest parts of southern Xinjiang, a heavily Uighur area, by the end of 2020.  The government recently said that target was met a year ahead of schedule.  By late 2023, another plan says, Xinjiang wants one million working in its textile and garment industries, up from about 100,000 in 2017….

  Trainee laborers often first attend political courses similar to those used in the indoctrination camps. They practice military drills, learn patriotic Chinese songs and listen to lectures warning against Islamic zeal and preaching gratitude to the Communist Party.  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/world/asia/china-xinjiang-muslims-labor.html

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 134.  Each kind of energy must be used intelligently.  The object that serves to accumulate energy also serves to multiply it.   -Morya:  Supermundane 1, 1938