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  2. Prisoners of Geography - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners of Geography covers the geopolitical contexts and situations in several vital regions of the world. These include: Russia, China, the United States, Europe, the Arab World, South Asia (mainly focusing on the geopolitical anomalies of India and Pakistan), Africa, Japan and Korea, Latin America, and the Arctic Ocean (mainly to cover the geopolitics of the Arctic resources race).

  3. The Power of Geography - Wikipedia

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    978-1-78396-602-8. Preceded by. Prisoners of Geography. Website. Elliott & Thompson. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World is a book on geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall. It was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2021 and is the sequel to his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography .

  4. Xinjiang internment camps - Wikipedia

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    Number of inmates. Up to 1.8 million (2020 Zenz estimate) [2] 1 million – 3 million over a period of several years (2019 Schriver estimate) [3] [4] Plus ~497,000 minors in special boarding schools (2017 government document estimate) [5] Xinjiang internment camps. Uyghur name.

  5. Penal system in China - Wikipedia

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    The penal system in China is composed of an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system. As of 2020, it is estimated that 1.7 million people had been incarcerated in China, which is the second-highest prison population after the United States. China also retains the use of the death penalty with the approval of the ...

  6. Life and Death in Shanghai - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0-394-55548-5. Life and Death in Shanghai ( Chinese: 上海生死劫) is an autobiographical memoir published in November 1987 [1] by Chinese author Yao Nien-Yuan under the pen name Nien Cheng. Written while in exile in the United States, it tells the story of Cheng's arrest during the early days of the Cultural Revolution, her more ...

  7. Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China

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    The PLA sent released prisoners (among them the governor-general of Kham, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme), to Lhasa to negotiate with the Dalai Lama on the PLA's behalf. Chinese broadcasts promised that if Tibet was "peacefully liberated", the Tibetan elites could keep their positions and power.

  8. Laogai - Wikipedia

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    Forced labour and slavery. Laogai ( Chinese: 劳改 ), short for láodòng gǎizào ( 劳动改造 ), which means reform through labor, is a criminal justice system involving the use of penal labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

  9. Geography of China - Wikipedia

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    Geography of China; Continent: Asia: Region: East/Southeast Asia: Coordinates: 1]: Area: Ranked 4: • Total: 9,596,960 [1] km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi): • Land: 97.2 [1] %: • Water: 2.8 [1] %: Coastline: 14,500 [1] km (9,000 mi): Borders: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam: Highest point: Mount ...