Chinese forced labor camp worker puts haunting note pleading for help into box of Kmart decorations

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22. You've been in China 6 years and you still have that view?

I don't see how it's so hard to believe that 1 person out of a forced labor camp out of who knows how many (hundreds, thousands?) can have decent English abilities. And plus, if this is a dissident camp, it would be EVEN MORE likely people there have an above average outside education, which would most likely be acquired from knowing English well as that kind of information is nearly impossible to find in Chinese. Chances are, if you talk to 100 random Chinese citizens, at least one of them will speak great English, and that's probably an extremely conservative estimate. My wife is from a small, poor village in Sichuan and she's not even the only English speaker from there. In a major city like Shenyang, the prevalence of English would be much higher. All it takes is one person with good English skills to write this letter. And I have no doubt at all that at least one person at that camp (and probably several more) could do it.