it seems that people are. going to use today their future. dot com for a series. could. be . this is deja news asia coming up forced labor of global profit report claims china is forcing its weaker minority to work in factories for global brands china says there's no factual basis to this so what is going on we asked one of the reports plus. south korea's border the coronavirus continues disinfection teams fanned out to sanitize stations and public transport around the country.

welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us ah global brands such as folks fog and met say these bans nike and others using products made by ethnic we girls under forced labor a report by an australian think tank claims that is the case the australian strategic policy institute says at least 80000 have been forcibly transferred out of the factories in china that make products for global brands in china's not west is where china has detained some 1000000 we girls in detention camps ostensibly to fight terrorism the report also says some of these 80000 weaker is what transferred from detention camps to these factories in these factories came the report's authors we were forced to take part in so-called patriotic education prevented from . practicing their religion and forced to live in carefully guarded dormitories the

factories in question cater to some 83 foreign and chinese companies we contacted some of the german firms named in the report including fox fog and meditate is bents that is owned by dima and b.m.w. all 3 said they take their corporate human rights responsibilities seriously let's begin with folks fogg and folks talk and told us that the company high brought advanced material which was mentioned in the report is currently not a direct supplier of folks the firm said they were investigating the claims as well done which owns mitzi it is bends said i brought is not it's a blight of dharma and our previous investigation has revealed no further indication b.m.w. told us they couldn't comment on the report but said that suppliers are required to implement b.m.w.'s policies which prohibit the use of forced labor of china to has

responded to the claims made in the report here's what a foreign ministry spokesman said. the report has no factual basis this organization has repeatedly thrown out prejudice failed policies related to the shin jang issue it's only doing so now to follow american anti china forces and smear china's efforts to oppose terrorism and fight extremism in shin jang in the early. joining me now the co-author of the report from the australian strategic policy institute dr james lybrel dr leveled wacom it's good to have you on the program with us now the chinese government has said that this report has no factual basis but i'd like to ask you what evidence did you use to arrive at the conclusions that you have in the report. well what we spent. team research is bending over 3 and a half months collecting numerous data points easing the chinese government's

media reports as well as documents available wildly available locally available on the chinese internet we also he said light imagery to to examine some of these factories and we also collaborated with the washington post for some on the ground reporting particularly around the conditions at the top long factory in qingdao but you have basically a situation in which the trying his government is sending we girls ought to work in factories in other provinces in china what you're calling that a forced displacement of sorts as i connect. well what we're searching is that these meters we've documented up 280000 that have been transfers and 2017 that many of these we years appear to have been since against their will and they are held in conditions in these factories

that are indicative of forced labor so there are conditions in some of the factories are able to document as they lived in secure gated dora tori's often with you know barbed wire armed guards watching over them that they had to undergo compulsory mandarin and ideological training after after hours after their through work they were subject to constant surveillance by human and technological sants and they're also prohibited from observing and practicing their cultural religious practices so taken together what we're suggesting is that some of these weak areas quite possibly are being. compelled to work against their will in conditions do mit do mit sort do amount to what the international organization labor defines as forced labor you know of course what's what so what

from underfunding to john in your report a program of the chinese government what exactly is this program. you know what so this is a longstanding program so really since the 1950 s. when the chinese communist party came to power in the people's republic of china they have been cross subsidising frontier regions like change in tibet by massive fiscal transfers so even to this day about 60 percent of young budget comes from transfer is money outside of st john so this comes both through central government as well as from regional governments coastal postal cities like shanghai and also increasingly companies so there is lots of pressure brought to bear on companies to contribute to john a to bringing. firmly into the motherland and. you know

the party's agenda for economic development but also reeducation and transformation and change on the way you're describing it it almost sounds like an extension off the policies of the chinese government is implementing in should journey particularly with respect to the detention of up to a 1000000 wee girls in detention camps is there some extensions of the policy. yes i see it as a kind of reeducation 2.0 and part of part of the reason this is occurring is. you know the campaign to mass detention campaign of over a 1000000 readers has kind of run its course it's received international criticism it's highly expensive and so the party state wants to move to the next phase which is bringing people back into productive labor. and distributing the cost of reeducation across the country and so what we're seeing is you know

as i said before that these workers in these factories will who do productive labor during the day. for which they will be there are questions about whether they're paid a fair and equal rate targets but in the evenings as well it will have to undergo continued patriotic education mandarin language training you know training in chinese laws and how to adopt to chinese norms even norms of how to take a shower daily you know how to dress properly how to be a good kind of modern citizen where you are there for the time being talk to james carville thank you so much for speaking to us. south korea is reporting another spike a new coat on ovide us cases as a battle is the biggest outbreak of the disease outside china today beating off in south korea all necessary assistance to fight the epidemic trying appoints to its

expertise treating tens of thousands of patients in the city of the epicenter of the outbreak but doctors on the front lines are there's still a lot they don't know. we've discovered special cases such as asymptomatic carriers to test positive for the virus but have no symptoms what's the reason behind that. and we've heard reports that some patients tests negative off the treatment but after a period of time a few of them test positive again that still unsolved mystery such. as cases in south korea have now been known to more than 6000 in the capital seoul transport officials are taking extraordinary measures sending disinfectant teams into trains and stations and forcing commuters to wear mosques and wash their hands . so 3 is transit networks are using strong medicine to

combat the deadly coated 90 epidemic special teams are working overtime to sanitize the entirety of seoul metro with stations prepared to shut down if anyone with the coronavirus is confirmed to have been there and there's a good bit of public outreach going on as well. but among the measures taken by small metro to prevent the spread of the virus are public service announcements in 4 languages promoting containment several times for our commuters are encouraged to wear their mess sanitize their hands and practice healthy safe hygiene. subway authorities have brought in extra staff to cope with decontamination efforts there keeping a watchful eye on overall working conditions. the health of our workers is a top priority also in making sure they win mosques and fairly wash their hands and in the course of their work minimize unnecessary contact with passengers for the

michelson was with the couple was near the subway rider ship in seoul has significantly dropped since the onset of the virus but commuters have also changed their behavior can you that long as all i find myself avoiding anyone who's coughing and doesn't have a mask on so using the subway has become a bit disturbing and i used to hold on to a handrail but not so much now everything has become more challenging than anything else. the money knowledgeable kind of look at there are few people on the subway now which makes it more comfortable to use but i think about the people who afraid to come out and how inconvenient that must be to be stuck in dole as your man had. the national railway has also seen its ridership and schedule drastically reduced with the government discouraging non-essential travel hygiene is a top priority there too with co rail cleaning its trains several times

a day and disinfecting stations on average twice a day. to prevent the spread of the coronavirus handrails tables response rooms and other areas that come into frequent contact with passengers authority disinfected in addition. as of monday we are selling window seats 1st to keep passengers as far apart as possible. some government officials had earlier suggested locking down the city of daegu the source of the vast majority of cases now cleanliness containment and mitigation have come to define south korea's strategy against the coronavirus. that's a for today head over to our website it up without going forward to do the show online after all the stories from the region including updates on the put on the virus outbreak. we leave you now with images of walkers providing called us to be used for in just upcoming holy festival also called the festival of promise only

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