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N othing in the

Chinese govern-
ment's policy of
oppression
changed during
the time of Deng
Xiaoping (side),
who came to
power after Mao.

ordering terrible slaughter
for the sake of power and
their own ideologies. Just
like the others, Mao set
up concentration camps
in order to strengthen the
communist regime, turned
them into torture centers, and
had millions of people who
failed to think like him ruth-
lessly killed.
The People's Republic of
China, founded in 1949, was
built upon totalitarian despotism,
intense bureaucracy, and a system of
state control of all resources and means of

production. The disasters brought about by
Mao's economic policies and his policies of re-
stricted famine led to enormous loss of life and a general
collapse. Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, hoped to put the economy
right by carrying out economic reforms and opened the country up to

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan