The Chinese Communist Party has become an expert in profiting off its human rights abuses, according to a former State Department official, who pointed to the regime’s commercializing of slave labor—and even body parts from slain prisoners of conscience. Robert Destro, a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, said that the Chinese leaders will go after anything that could present a challenge to their rule. “They are extraction experts,” Destro told an Oct. 18 panel at the Hudson Institute. “They will monetize everything, from the national resources to your liver. Extractive, coercive, repressive, and intrusive—these are the four words Destro used to describe the CCP. Religion has been hit particularly hard, Destro said, pointing to the regime’s about-face on the spiritual group Falun Gong as one example. Introduced in 1992 in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, Falun Gong enjoyed considerable state support in the early years as …
‘They Will Monetize Everything’: Beijing Has Turned Rights Abuses Into an Industry, Experts Say
October 23, 2021
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