In November 2021, the Times of India website published an article quoting the website of Radio Free Asia in the United States as saying that some Uighur workers in Xinjiang were sent to factories and then subjected to "forced labor."
What is the recruitment mentioned in this report? What is the real situation in factories accused of "forced labor"? Who is the author of this article, and what is his purpose in doing so?
After the revision of Phoenix Satellite TV, a new column "News Authentication Group" was launched, stripping away bamboo shoots, layer by layer, and using facts to prove falsification to correct audio-visual. This article is excerpted from the content of the program to verify the truth behind "forced labor".
Moderator: Liang Yin
Analyst: Bai Mengchen
Suspicious "recruitment advertisements"
In the Times of India article, evidence of "forced labor" was a job placement company that said more than 2,000 Uighur workers would be resettled across China for a two-year period. The source of this "evidence," Radio Free Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress, said in its article that there is a job agency in Sichuan, China, and more than 3,000 Uighur workers will be transferred to a factory in Nanjing by 2021.
The difference between 2,000 and 3,000 is huge, why is the media so casual? The so-called recruitment advertisement in the report, a series of important information is missing - for where to recruit workers? What is the job about? What is the salary? I don't know. Does such an advertisement really exist?
Program analyst Bai Mengchen believes that the so-called recruitment advertisement mentions that the age of recruitment is 16 to 30 years old. Obviously, there is no understanding of Chinese laws and regulations. 16-18 years old are underage workers and will not be recruited together with 30 years old. Moreover, the transfer of employees mentioned in it, in the context of China's epidemic prevention and control, is about 3600 kilometers on average from Xinjiang to Nanjing, and it is almost impossible to transfer thousands of people at such a long distance on a large scale, and to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention, so that it is completely silent and unknown.
Therefore, the so-called "recruitment" mentioned in the report is obviously full of doubts.
The factory that has been accused of "forced labor" is such a company that makes Western countries "red-eyed"
The report also mentions that some of the Uighurs who were recruited would be sent to work at a textile factory in the Aksu region called Huafu, and they could not leave the factory or return home.
The program team's investigation found that Huafu is a real enterprise called Huafu Color Spinning, which was established in 2010. By the end of 2021, there were 4,462 employees, 88% of whom were ethnic minorities, located in the Aksu region of Xinjiang.
△ Huafu color spinning recruitment advertisement
We search for Xinjiang Huafu Color Spinning on the short video platform, and there are many videos released by factory employees with rich content. These include the real scene of the factory, the activities held in the factory, the holiday benefits, etc., and there is no evidence that the workers were forced to work. In the interview of the program group, no one mentioned "forced labor", but was full of happiness.
Program analyst Bai Mengchen believes that through the video, it can be seen that the company itself is a high-tech enterprise, and the quality of employees is high. Judging from some of the information it publishes on the Internet, its color spinning process is at a high level, and it can be improved by about 60% compared with the old process in terms of water saving and sewage reduction. In addition, this enterprise is of great significance to the poverty alleviation of the local people, the development of Xinjiang, and even the development of our country's textile industry.
But it is such a company that is often "smeared". First of all, Huafu Color Spinning has a strong competitiveness in the entire international market. Secondly, the textile industry is also a very important enterprise in many Western countries, and many Western companies hope to be able to compete unequally with Chinese enterprises through a disguised trade protection, or "barrier" way.
This largely explains why many Western media will target Huafu - because it is good, because it is strong, so those who do not want to see China develop well, will target such a company.
The textile industry itself is a relatively labor-intensive industry, and China's current high-tech textile enterprises have high requirements for the quality of employees, including the level of education. These factors determine that it is unlikely to engage in what Westerners call "forced labor."
Author from the bottom
The report cited in the relevant report of the Times of India, its author is Xue He Lai Tywu Seoul, who is this person? What had he been doing before? Is his report credible?
Xue Helai Tywu Seoul, born in 1965, American nationality, is currently a reporter for Radio Free Asia. To get a more comprehensive picture of him, the program team looked at his social media and found a lot of content related to Xinjiang in his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
In my Facebook in Seoul, there is a set of videos retweeted in October 2021, two of which are of an elderly man making noodles and working in the fields. Below is a passage in Uzbek to the effect that "here is Amiz, the only captive, a man who went to a concentration camp".
However, in fact, the original source of these videos is China's social media, the publisher is a Xinjiang man, most of the videos published by this man have an elderly man, it is the old man in the video forwarded by Wu Seoul. From the original author's social media account, it can be seen that the so-called "prisoner in the concentration camp" is very close to the video publisher, and they are likely to be family members.
In my Seoul Twitter and Facebook accounts, there are many similar grafting and deliberately distorted content.
Bai Mengchen believes that Western journalists take advantage of the local people's unfamiliarity with China's Internet format and content to fabricate materials on China's internet, using this way to deceive the audience and instill a wrong impression. With more and more footage on the Chinese Internet, this method will become the best choice for them to smear China.
Edit: Erzhu