Chinese Regime Labor Camp Reforms Bring Panic, Puzzlement, Hope

The new Chinese leadership has announced that it’s going to scrap the system of “re-education through forced labor”—and both officials and dissidents are still trying to figure out what it means.

At a recent meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping stressed that anti-corruption efforts need to target both "flies" and “tigers,” referring to lower and senior level officials. Ed Jones-Pool/Getty images