The Chinese Communist Party has become an expert in profiting off its human rights abuses, according to a former State Department official, who pointed to the regime commercializing slave labor—and even body parts from slain prisoners of conscience. Robert Destro, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, said that the Chinese leaders would go after anything that could present a challenge to their rule. “They are extraction experts,” Destro told an Oct. 18 panel at the Hudson Institute. “They will monetize everything, from the national resources to your liver,” he added. Extractive, coercive, repressive, and intrusive—these are the four words Destro chose in describing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Religion has been particularly hard hit, Destro said, pointing to the regime’s about-face on spiritual group Falun Gong as one example. Introduced in 1992 to northeastern Chinese city Changchun, Falun Gong enjoyed considerable state support in the …
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