A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here’s What Really Goes on Inside

GOOD:  Quentin Tarantino Holds Firm, Won’t Recut ‘Once Upon a Time’ for China.


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SHE’S JUST TALKING ABOUT RUSSIANS TO COVER UP THAT SHE’S ON THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S PAYROLL. See, I can do it too.

Flashback:  Russians! Under my bed!

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A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here’s What Really Goes on Inside Haaretz. 

Today’s must read. Indirectly confirmed by this take from an ex-McKinsey colleague a while back: 

I’ve been to China often, built a factory there in the early 2000s, and our youngest son recently returned from working there (he’s fluent in Mandarin). Last fall XXXX and I went to Xinjiang, the westernmost province of China, where the silk road enters China. That region and its capital, Kashgar, has gotten lots of recent press because of the oppression of the Uighur minority. It’s worse than most press describe. It’s a police state like the storm troopers of Star Wars. Last fall (after we were there) McK held its annual senior partner meeting in the desert near Kashgar. For that to have been done was, to me, a clear signal to the Chinese government of McK’s tacit approval of their actions there. It was appalling. No other part of China, including Tibet, is even remotely as oppressive.

BULLIES: China Secretly Ordered NBA Commissioner To Fire Rockets’ GM Over Hong Kong Tweet.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed on Thursday that the Chinese government insisted the league fire Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over a now-deleted October 4 tweet supporting the protesters in Hong Kong, according to Time.
“We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business,” Silver said in his first US interview about the league’s ongoing free speech scandal. “We said there’s no chance that’s happening. There’s no chance we’ll even discipline him.”
Speaking at the TIME 100 Health Summit, Silver noted that “The losses have already been substantial,” adding “Our games are not back on the air in China as we speak, and we’ll see what happens next.”

Maybe decoupling from China is what happens next, or at least ought to.