Why China Constantly Needs New Prisons

[Music] they're dominating the gaming industry now solar industry uh electric cars yeah gaming industry that's how this all started byd is making such strides internationally it's really scary we don't see them in the United States because of the tariffs thank goodness um but like you know they've already pushing Tesla out of China Tesla's dumb for having ever gone there in the first place uh there was a a story in Brazil where like their the the land bought by byd and their contractor to like you know build bys in Brazil is like now using human trafficking oh good because they're not only exporting their like knockoff technology they're also exporting their human rights abuses which is what they want to do all over the world the China model right yeah it's uh so that there are essentially Chinese workers being like import into Brazil right anywhere and Brazil is not even technically part of the belt and road but for all these countries that do these deals with China whether it's technically or not part of the belt and Road initiative the uh China doesn't just ex doesn't just like come and give jobs to locals they're always bringing their own people to do some of these jobs because they're desperate for jobs too right and they're always exporting their like um environmental impact and uh like you saw when you were in in prao Italy Shelly the like they also exported their like uh prostitution and their gambling yeah that was really pretty sick to see these flyers on the street about um advertising you know fresh off the boat young Chinese girls that really makes it sound like just meat yeah I mean literally it was it was like the in Chinese it was kind of like you know newly arrived to like you know young you know yeah it's really it's it's it's sick and it happens everywhere that uh basically Chinese companies come and set up shop with that local government's blessing it's not just like cheap you know plastic dish wear or whatever coming out of China that we're buying in the United States it's like you're the whole system is getting exported just just on a quick note I I I saw a funny meme that they're like I guess like some Teemu storage facility caught fire so there's a picture of it you know the building on fire teu on the side and like somebody captioned it uh there was $59 worth of damage uh where was this storage facility I I don't know like I all I have is the meme okay it's so you know I was thinking this is kind of dark but you know we were talking earlier about the the new prisons being built inside China actually we didn't talk about that that's just on the list I know know like before the podcast I know we haven't talked about it yet because in the beginning we said are we going to talk about Marvel or are we going to talk about the prisons that went off on a big tangent yeah but um so this CNN did this whole CNN did this whole um hold on my my coffee is still warm I want you to know that good my cold water is almost done all right now continue shy uh can I have a look at that coffee cup Matt no no because because uh as an authoritarian I fear you I I fear everyone else so I you want me to admire your coffee mug I can't trust anybody cuz now that I've taken more stuff than everybody else this this really has been this mug has been the best symbol of what happens under communism I just want to see the mug I'm not going to spill it on the floor see the mug all right good you've seen the mug uh anyway what was I saying about detention centers being built right for people like you um anyway I was thinking not in specifically about these new detention centers but I was thinking about how essentially if you dismantled the prison system in China um timu would probably go out of business yeah like there would be so many Chinese factories that wouldn't be able to produce the the cheap stuff because they actually subcontract to uh prisons it's often several layers of subcontracting but yes the prisons um yeah there was there was that one guy that we met many years ago uh who was an Chinese American who ended up going to China he practiced Fallen gong he got put in prison and he was forced to make these like Homer Simpson slippers do you remember this yes yeah I mean this was like almost this was a long time ago yeah I mean years ago they've been you know killing Fallen Kong torturing them for like 25 years or something now but like that was kind of the first that I had heard of like the prison labor for export system there was some Financial Times article a few years ago about how peeled garlic from China was being peeled in prisons oh yeah um okay that's yeah well there was that uh documentary a letter from masanja about it was another guy who was a Fong and he ended up in masanja labor C Camp right which is one of the most notorious ones in China and they were making um Halloween decorations oh yeah and he smuggled a note in English inside one of the Halloween decoration kits and it was found by some woman like a American woman living in I think Washington State something like that and she opened up her Halloween decorations and found this note from please help me I'm in a labor camp yeah it was basically that and then she it made the news and it was all yeah and well do you have another point about that well that that's what that's what a lot of teu stuff uh very likely is right is well hold on I'm going to go down to point I just want to see if shelle finished her thought no I mean go ahead okay uh so like a big big part of it this we were talking about uh State control over the economy like there a reason why all of these things are being made in China One it's on the US and giving stupid subsidies to China that for instance makes it cheaper to mail something from Shanghai to San Francisco than from LA to San Francisco yeah that's one of the things the B Administration was supposed to be stopping but I don't know if they did yeah as far as I know it didn't happen they've got a few more days to stop it that's true no no oh yeah they do they do you're right um and then also just like the Chinese state subsidizing things so this can happen well I mean the the prisons are trying to make a profit you know they're they're uh the whole prison system in China is also messed up in the sense that the prisons are incentivized to make money to support themselves so it becomes like a prison industry and I know some people will be like oh well America has the same thing it's not on the scale right um and so you know this is also where you have the organ harv ing comes in because the prisons and the hospitals work together to you know take prisoners Mone like the state forces the prisons to exist right like that's the state mandate but then the state mandate is pay for yourselves so without any any moral constraints but the requirement that they exist and also self- sustain well and requirement that they um what do they call it transform dissidents right right quotas yeah same thing with 100 days no births yeah so I mean just uh the experience of a Chinese prisoner is so awful and if you've talked to people who've been in those prisons which which I think all of us have like it's it's so it's so awful on every level the like 14-hour days of work the you know the the food the GRL the like the fluorescent lights being on in your cell 24 hours a day uh the lack of like torture the torture I mean more more direct torture if you have an an ideological problem like you believe in in Fallen gong or you believe in uh Islam or something that that's where they really need to torture that out of you well and this also kind of ties into the whole prison system thing that we're not probably going to really get into because we're short on time but this new system called Leo um BAS basically it's an expansion of the party's internal uh discipline where you party officials are taken and tortured except now this is expanded to more people than just party officials and one thing local governments are doing is they're nabbing up businessmen accusing them of bribery putting them in the system where they're tortured in a l of all things and all they have to I'm talking Matt and you use that stupid mug to knock the microphone sabotaging me at every step of the way uh it's still warm good um so yeah they accuse these businessmen of bribery basically to get them to pay them money and fees because the local governments are running out of money and they need to make money somehow and so the new industry is capturing businessmen yes imagine taking money out of successful oh yeah are you a curious person of course you are we're now putting full interviews only on our new China uncensored premium website China uncensored. 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