A Study on Chinese Investment in African and Asean Countries

In November 2011, Human Rights Watch released a report documenting the abuses by Chinese state-owned enterprises (“SOEs”) against local miners in Zambia. A sweeping indictment of their labor practices, the report charges that, among other things, Chinese mine operators routinely coerce Zambian workers to toil in unsafe and unhealthy conditions for long hours at low wages in violation of domestic and international law.