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> over half a million people were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020 - around 15% of the region’s population

In the meantime countries such as Spain “enjoy” 50% unemployment of the young.

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Are you suggesting that the Spanish gov't forcibly enroll youths in labor camps?

What is Conscription then? Or compulsory National Service?

I'm not going to voice support for compulsory national service but at least their purpose isn't to purge the social identity of an entire ethnic minority. Which, if you actually dig a little deeper into the Tibet issue, is exactly what China is trying to achieve (and having some success at too).

Funny how you arrived at “forcibly” while there’s not a single proof this program is forced on anyone.

So China has a free press now to find such proof! How silly of us. This myopic, appeasement view of an authoritarian regime has been shown time and again through our history to not end well.

So what you are saying is that if there's no free press, it's a valid reasoning to just invent things out of thin air and assume they are true, like in this case with "forced labor".

There's no free press in China, not elsewhere dear.

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