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Why Abolishing China’s Hated Labor Camp System Is Harder Than It Sounds

This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Last week, china’s “Re-education Through Labor” system returned to the center of public attention. Re-education through labor, or laojiao in shorthand Chinese, has long been a reviled means for police to jail Chinese citizens without due process. In 2011, laojiao was used [...]

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