James Kynge
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That's terrific.
Fascinating and very fast-moving situation.
We'll be following it for sure.
I did.
I did.
I mean, I'd never heard of this before.
I was really quite amazed.
It's the story of this Australian woman, 28 years old, Chinese-Australian.
Apparently, her mother recommended that she went to one of these fat prisons in China, in Guangzhou City in southern China.
I think her real name is T.L.
Huang.
And she was in one of these fat prisons in December last year.
And I have to say...
I didn't quite know how to react to it.
I mean, I can see that people really want to take drastic steps to lose weight, but it did look sort of brutal.
And there were moments when she's talking to the video camera
when she looks like she's about to cry and she's really having a hard time.
As you mentioned, Alice, you book yourself into these facilities.
They're called fat prisons in the vernacular.
The real name for them is weight loss training camps.