The New York-based organization China Labor Watch released a report on International Labor Day, which is a serious slap in the face to the Communist Party of China (CPC), which relied on the Shanghai labor riots in the early days of the communist empire and claimed to put workers first and take care of them after the establishment of the government. The report is a survey of six “Belt and Road” countries that must open up to the importation of Chinese labor in order to comply with engineering agreements. Since 2018, the number of migrant workers in China has been reduced by 5 million, half of which have been absorbed by the “Belt and Road”, and many migrant workers have been confused and taken the boat of thieves to overseas, and their situation is like a piglet being exploited.
The phrase “piglets” is a term used by the interviewed laborers in the report, which reminds us of the situation of Chinese workers in the United States more than 100 years ago.
In 1842, after the Sino-British Opium War, the poverty of Chinese society was exposed, and many Chinese people along the southern coast signed a contract of sale in order to escape from hunger and disaster, and boarded cargo ships sailing to the United States. From 1850 to 1860, at least 30,000 Chinese workers arrived on the other side of the Pacific. In 1870, the railroad was completed and a large number of Chinese workers poured into the cities. In 1872, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which discriminated against Chinese workers, was passed, prohibiting Chinese workers from re-entering the country and limiting their wages and place of residence.
Migrant Workers Exploited in Belt and Road
The old Communist Party has recently confronted the world over the human rights of Uyghurs, preferring to spend money on foreign propaganda but not to open up free interviews to the world.
In fact, the human rights of labor are generally poor in China, and such discrimination exists all over China regardless of race.
In this report, Chinese laborers abducted by the Belt and Road project suffer from widespread unpaid wages, no health insurance, and no protection of their labor rights, especially during the Wuhan epidemic. The situation is even worse in Africa, where many Chinese workers, unwilling to be mistreated, secretly left the site and fled to third countries.
China’s cooperation with the “Belt and Road” projects are all state-run enterprises. If state enterprises do not care about labor rights, there is no doubt about the recent revelation that private entrepreneurs treat their workers as slaves.
Under the rule of the old Communist Party, beautiful lies cannot conceal the truth, and it is the “red and specialized” workers and peasants who are breaking the Communist paradise.
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