China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: Use convicts as labourers on overseas projects in the developing world. The practice has exposed another facet of China\u2019s egregious human-rights record, which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese companies, includes the government\u2019s failure to enforce its own regulations.<\/p>\n
Not only is China the world\u2019s leading executioner \u2013 it puts to death three times as many people every year as the rest of the world combined \u2013 it also has one of the largest prison populations: 1.57 million inmates in 2009, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies at King\u2019s College, London.<\/p>\n
The forced dispatch of prisoners to work on overseas infrastructure projects raises new issues regarding China\u2019s human-rights record. It also adds a new element \u2013 the dumping of convicts \u2013 to its trade and investment policy, which has been much criticized for dumping goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is quite possible that the bulk of the Chinese workers that will be coming to the Bahamas to work on the Baha Mar project will be convicts from China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27,24,93,31,41],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-baha-mar","tag-construction","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}