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"Mr President, Commissioner, we should not forget that a substantial part of China’s economic rise is due to the prison economy. The laogai system has been the most important tool of massive political oppression and has included since 1949 about 50 million inmates. Even today there are up to five million detainees. Most of them have been kept there under the guise of preventing a threat to state security. The large-scale exploitation of slave labour in Communist China’s prison camps has become an open secret. It has been proved that most laogai prisons operate under the titles of commercial companies.
On the eve of the EU-China summit, Commissioner, are you prepared to implement President Van Rompuy’s principle of reciprocity in further actions? I agree that you did not answer most of our questions. For example, is there any cooperation with US authorities on detecting laogai products? Have you taken a look at Parliament’s previous resolutions which have advocated a ban on sales of laogai products in Europe and have insisted that further progress on cooperation with China should depend on Beijing ratifying important UN and ILO Conventions? Also, are you prepared to suspend China’s status under the generalised system of preferences if the Chinese authorities refuse? These are questions to which we need answers."@en1
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