and this is why I was making the point that such policies are not new.
That being said - the article you linked to really sends chills down one's spines, and just reading the Chinese government's self-justification for forced interment of people not convicted nor charged with any crime indeed serves to emphasize the repressive nature of this practice.
China has had a system of labor/re-education camps in the past, named laojiao:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/ch...
These were supposedly abolished in 2013, but in fact many of them may have been rebranded using other titles, see:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/12/china-s-re-ed...
and this is why I was making the point that such policies are not new.
That being said - the article you linked to really sends chills down one's spines, and just reading the Chinese government's self-justification for forced interment of people not convicted nor charged with any crime indeed serves to emphasize the repressive nature of this practice.