The heat of xinjiang cotton has been burning for nearly a week. Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, and the China Consumers Association issued a statement that "pure white and flawless Xinjiang cotton cannot be smeared and tarnished by any force" and that "some foreigners are not allowed to eat Chinese rice while smashing Chinese bowls." ”
At the folk level, a number of artists terminated their contracts with H&M and other brands for the first time, and E-commerce platforms such as Taobao, JD.com, and other e-commerce platforms have been unable to search for H&M's products and stores.
At today's regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spokesman Zhao Lijian spent more than 5 minutes answering questions from Shenzhen Satellite TV & Direct News reporters about Xinjiang cotton, and Zhao Lijian clearly pointed out that the smear of Xinjiang cotton is part of the "earth-shattering conspiracy" of the United States and the West.
It is worth mentioning that today, in the wind hall opposite the "Blue Hall" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a press conference on Xinjiang-related issues was also held. At the meeting, Xu Guixiang, spokesman for the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said that enterprises should not politicize economic behavior.
In the new week, the heat of cotton in Xinjiang has not decreased. Behind the pure white cotton, there is a dark surge of Sino-AMERICAN struggle. The use of the human rights issue by the United States and the West to suppress China is nothing new, and this round, China has used cotton as an incision, turned passivity into initiative, and broke through from "encirclement and suppression."
Why is Xinjiang cotton hot at this time?
For many years, the United States and the West have been "tirelessly" smearing Xinjiang, explicitly and covertly supporting the separatist forces in Xinjiang, slandering Xinjiang's counter-terrorism and de-radicalization work as trampling on human rights, and smearing Xinjiang's vocational skills training centers as "re-education camps".
On December 18, 2018, the Associated Press released what it called an "investigative report" that "Xinjiang re-education camps, forced labor products are exported to the United States." In the second step, U.S. government agencies stepped in after the U.S. media campaign: A subsequent statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that "the Associated Press report seems to be the first time linking re-education camps in western China with goods produced by forced labor imported by a U.S. company" and began an investigation into products from China. In the third step, the United States elevated this unreasonable smear into action, and last December, the United States imposed sanctions on Xinjiang products under the pretext of "forced labor.".
With Big Brother taking the lead, U.S. allies have also begun to follow. Last March, the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy Research (ASPI) published a study titled "Trafficking in Uighurs: 'Re-education', Forced Labor, and Surveillance Outside Xinjiang," saying that the Chinese government's "forced labor" against Uighurs was an extension of "re-education camps" and that the concept of "forced labor" was completely brought to power.
And this ASPI, which has been criticized by Hua Chunying many times by name, has long since removed its old bottom. Hua Chunying said that the institute has long received financial support from the US government and arms dealers, is keen on concocting and hyping up various anti-China issues, has a very strong ideological color, and is actually the "vanguard" of anti-China forces.
Through combing, it can be seen that the United States and the West play the Xinjiang card, which can be described as a step-by-step camp and a long-term plan. What is the motive behind the United States in tying Xinjiang cotton to "forced labor" and even hyping up "genocide"?
Ms. Hua's answer in a video played at a news conference last week gave the answer — "The best way for the C.I.A. to destabilize China is to create instability in China." Together with those Uighurs, beijing was stimulated, and China was brought down directly from within without external force. The speaker in the video, former U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, said unabashedly in August 2018.
Xinjiang is the largest provincial-level administrative region in China by land, 1.5 times more than the three countries combined, and among the 15 countries bordering China by land, 8 countries are connected to Xinjiang, which is the most convenient passage for Chinese mainland to enter Central Asia, and the importance of Xinjiang's geographical location is self-evident.
Wilkerson said that through Xinjiang, "bringing down China from within, it is chilling. The Xinjiang issue is directly related to China or not.
By manipulating the Xinjiang issue, the United States has both cultivated separatist forces within China and provoked relations between China and the entire Muslim country. If Xinjiang is in turmoil and splits from China, China will shrink by 1/6, and China's relations with many of its Central Asian neighbors and with Muslim countries will fall into passivity.
Today, when answering a question from a reporter from Shenzhen Satellite TV & Direct News, Zhao Lijian made it clear that Wilkerson's relevant remarks fully show that the United States and the West have an "earth-shattering conspiracy" on Xinjiang-related issues. They are trying to disrupt Xinjiang and curb China's development. Their smear of Xinjiang cotton is part of this conspiracy.
In addition to "forced labor," Pompeo, the "anti-China vanguard," hyped up before leaving office, falsely claiming that China had committed "genocide and crimes against humanity." At the time, Biden's secretary of state candidate, Blinken, agreed with Pompeo's statement, stressing that he would continue the policy after taking office.
If such a cauldron as "genocide" is held on China's head and becomes a "fact" accepted by the world, China will bear the stigma that history cannot erase.
It is worth mentioning that at today's press conference, foreign media reporters asked questions, and UN Secretary-General Guterres said at the weekend that the UN side is consulting with the Chinese side on the visit of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Xinjiang, and said that the relevant visits should be unrestricted.
"The Chinese side has already issued an invitation to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit China and Xinjiang, and the two sides have been maintaining communication." Zhao Lijian responded, "The purpose of the visit is to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two sides, not to conduct a so-called 'investigation' with a presumption of guilt." At the same time, we also oppose the use of this matter for political manipulation and pressure on the Chinese side. “
Based on the sinister intentions of the US side, on the one hand, the Chinese side took the initiative to invite the United Nations Human Rights High School to interview Xinjiang, and on the other hand, this fiery cotton war in Xinjiang is also a breakthrough cleverly selected by the Chinese side.
As mentioned above, the United States and the West have been hyping up the so-called "human rights", "freedom of religious belief" and "forced labor" issues for one or two years, why did China choose Xinjiang cotton as a counterattack?
Also in response to a question from a reporter from Shenzhen Satellite TV & Direct News today, Zhao Lijian said: According to data from the Xinjiang agricultural sector, the mechanical picking rate of cotton in Xinjiang has reached 70% in 2020. According to my understanding, growers can order machine picking services through mobile phone APP without leaving home, it can be said that cotton picking has entered the "Internet +" era, at this time a small number of countries and individuals are still making up the so-called "forced labor" story, is it forced machine labor?
The data, pictures and videos of cotton machinery picking in Xinjiang can be taken out by the Chinese side. In the past few days, readers who pay attention to this topic must have seen a lot. The facts and the truth clearly state that picking cotton in Xinjiang, there is no forced labor, is the chinese side dares to take the initiative to pick the Xinjiang cotton issue and the United States and the West to fight.
In the great public opinion field of the United States suppressing China, the Chinese side chose Xinjiang cotton as a breakthrough and fought a "self-defense counterattack war." In fact, today's Xinjiang cotton is the test tube in Powell's hand when the United States wanted to attack Iraq, saying that it was a "lethal weapon" found, but in fact, it contained washing powder. Like a snake hitting seven inches, the Chinese side chose to start with "forced labor", and then broke the so-called "human rights values" of the US Democratic Party, so that a series of lies such as "genocide" collapsed.
NGO "Spokesperson for Western Values in Developing Countries"
Shenzhen Satellite TV & Direct News reporter noted that compared with the Trump period, directly from the president and secretary of state to the front line of suppression of China, the Biden administration's approach is more traditional and old-fashioned, co-opting allies, engaging in value diplomacy, and flexibly using NGOs to insert the knife aimed at China deeper.
Taking this Xinjiang cotton as an example, the "Swiss Good Cotton Development Association" BCI, which was previously "unknown" to Chinese, suddenly came out. After squeezing out Chinese companies and being strongly resisted by the Chinese people, the Shanghai representative office of the association issued a statement saying that the China project team had never found a single case of "forced labor" in the years of reviewing and verifying the credibility of the Xinjiang project site since 2012. A riot operation, turning over the cloud and overturning the hand rain.
And the BCI behind the scenes is the U.S. Agency for International Development. In fact, the U.S. government has inextricable, complex, and delicate relationships with multiple NGOs. In the civil strife and color revolutions in some countries, they are also indispensable. In the 2019 Hong Kong legislative amendment storm, the "National Endowment for Democracy of the United States" and the "American Association for Democracy in International Affairs" that instigated anti-China and chaotic Elements in Hong Kong gradually surfaced.
Su Xiaohui, deputy director of the U.S. Institute of International Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, analyzed that the United States regards the foundation as a diplomatic and security strategy grasp, with small operating costs and large "benefits," but it is difficult for the foundation to wash away the color of the government and engage in a "color revolution" in the name of democracy. Such foundations are products of the Cold War .
The same is true of the Xinjiang cotton issue this time, it seems that the Biden administration has not invested a lot, but it has set off a big storm in the world.
"Compared with government agencies, the activities of NGOs are more flexible and hidden, and it is easier to occupy the commanding heights of morality and public opinion." Xiong Lili, a professor at the National Institute of Opening Up to the Outside World at the University of International Business and Economics, analyzed the Shenzhen Satellite TV & Direct News reporter, "Some NGOs have indeed promoted the progress of social and public undertakings in developing countries, but there are also many NGOs that have in fact acted as spokesmen for Western values in developing countries." ”
Xiong Lili believes that the Biden administration's style of play has a strong concealment and deception in the short term, but in the face of ironclad facts, it is difficult to deceive the global public for a long time. This style of play is likely to cause serious damage to the credibility of NGOs.
References: How the United States Manipulates the Issue of "Forced Labor" to Suppress Chinese Cotton Enterprises
Author: Tang Ping, a reporter in Beijing for Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News