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So Uniqlo doesn't use Xinjiang cotton, the implication being that their is forced labor there. The BBC, with no evidence claims there have been revelations of forced labor, despite numerous UN investigations finding no forced labor. I, personally, went to the cotton fields of Xinjiang, and for days of... show more
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Plenty of alternative brands.
While I agree. I am also concerned that deepening China-Japan diplomatic cooperation could be weakened if mutual investments in business are compromised. I am sincerely hoping Uniqlo simply starts publicly using Xinjiang cotton immediately. This is, in my humble opinion, the optimal solution.
The US government is the most evil gang in the world. They want Uyghurs to lose their jobs and income and become terrorists.
That’s how the US role. They make some claims of abuse with zero evidence. Then they sanction or invade. Making out like it’s in the interests of saving someone or something. While in reality it hurts the very people they are claiming to care about out. They use this same playbook all over the world.
You overestimate the value of the BBC. Sadly it’s on a par with the ABC now, and CNN, Fox etc.
BBC on some issues is just tepid writing, but not dangerous. But on China, they are pure hate and slander.
Question is IF Uniqlo's contracted 122 suppliers in China didn't use Xinjiang cotton where does the cotton come from? Uniqlo uses cotton from BetterCotton(TM) probably from India or elsewhere All China has to do is raise those cotton tariffs Problem solved.
The BBC is no different from supermarket check out tabloids. 99.99% fabrication.
meanwhile on the other side of the pacific
![JUST IN: Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent to China. Wang was elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022. She is accused of working with the People’s Republic of China to spread propaganda on a news website on United States soil between 2020 and 2022. "Wang and Sun [then-fiance] worked together to operate U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community," the DOJ said. "Wang and Sun received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website." On one occasion, Wang's "spymaster" directed her to share a story, denying the existence of genocide and forced labor in China. "There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor is to defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability," her spymaster allegedly said. Wang has pleaded guilty to the federal charge. She is facing up to 10 years in prison.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2053956178317828395/amplify_video_thumb/2053955396239556608/img/aao2tDZlE932REyu.jpg)
![EVERYONE interested in the economic relationship between the U.S. and China should watch this, as it is sure to challenge many beliefs you may have. This is William C. Kirby, easily one of the most knowledgeable Western experts on the topic. He is Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai. In other words, when it comes to business and China, there are pretty much no academic figures in the West more qualified than he is. Here the gist of what he says: On each country's openness to business, he says that "actually China is more open to foreign investment than maybe it's ever been under the People's Republic and the United States has become remarkably less open. [...] Right now if you're looking at regulatory risks as an American multinational or a Chinese multinational, thinking to do business in both markets, your biggest risk comes from Washington. Because you don't know when the next set of regulations or public hearings are going to come down. China has become bizarrely but significantly more predictable in this regard than the United States." He gives a few examples of companies he's been working on. The first one being TikTok, with this comment: "It is absolutely a low point in the history of diplomacy and of international relations that the two greatest powers of the world are at odds over a teenage video app." Another example he gives is CATL (the EV battery maker): "The Ford Motor Company, which has been around a long time by adapting to times, wanted to partner with [CATL] so that Ford could have competitive EVs in this country. And yet that becomes politically impossible, so their sustainability goals are certain to be set back and so are those of the United States." Or again, "right here in Cambridge, MA, [for our subway system] the cars are made in Springfield, MA by CRRC [a Chinese company]. [CRRC's] is the biggest industrial investment in Springfield in a half century, overseen and brought to fruition by Republican governor Charlie Baker. And yet Senator Schumer says on the Senate floor that we should not have Chinese cars on the red line because there might be spyware, and people could find out what you're reading, if you're reading..." Last example he gives, that of "a 4th generation textile company that dates back to the 1910s in Shanghai called Esquel, they make half of the high-end men's woven shirts in the world, their largest market being in North America and Europe. A leader in sustainability in the otherwise highly polluted textile industry. They've been caught in the political crossfire because they rely on Xinjiang cotton and they were accused in a very sloppily written report by a graduate student at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] of using forced labor in their Xinjiang spinning mill. A mill that I have actually visited and it is entirely automated. So they've lost their North American market and 30,000 employees, and the Xinjiang cotton farmers, the private farmers from whom they bought their cotton in recent years, have less of a market for their cotton." There you go. China is systematically presented as becoming "more repressive", less friendly to business, etc. but those who actually know the topic in considerable depth - like Kirby - know full well that the bulk of the instability and risks associated with doing business in or with China actually comes from Washington. Sequel's Xinjiang story is particularly interesting because it illustrates how Washington uses "human rights" claims to decouple from China, even when it has no basis in reality and results in the impoverishment of Uyghurs farmers in Xinjiang, denying them a substantial share of their income.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1759073971872625094/ext_tw_video_thumb/1759046373037727744/pu/img/4RBhAFFgb1pjAi8m.jpg)
![This is easily one of the most egregious examples of anti-China propaganda that I’ve seen, and it is creating a lot of buzz in China. It was done by French national TV program Cash Investigation, famous even in France for its dishonesty, in order to frame French brand Decathlon and make it look like they were using “Uyghur forced labor” in their supply chain. You can find the original video of the reporting here (the part I’m referring to starts at 1:05:08): Here’s what happened. French “journalists” Justine Jankowski and Marine Zambrano, both based in China, found a factory in Shandong that was a supplier of Decathlon for their clothes. As they explain in the piece they typically disguise themselves as food and travel bloggers in order to do their reporting, which I’m pretty sure is forbidden by law in China: as a journalist - especially a foreign journalist - you cannot misrepresent who you are in order to trick people into answering your questions. Specifically to enter the factory, they lied at the entrance gate, claiming they were “lost” and badly needed to use the toilets. The guard at the entrance let them in, oblivious to the fact they were in fact “journalists” carrying hidden cameras (which by the way is also forbidden by law in China, as it is in many other countries). What were they trying to do there? Looking for Uyghur workers because, as we know, the Western narrative (which is of course 100% false) is that any Uyghur employee is by definition forced labor. Which incidentally is creating a lot of issues for Uyghurs themselves, who have difficulties finding jobs as a result since employers in China who want to export their products don’t want the appearance of having “forced labor”. The UN actually did a report on this very matter, concluding that this "presumption of guilt [...] results in rising unemployment, particularly affecting the most vulnerable, [and] rises risks of poverty": In other words, according to the UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), those violating human rights on this matter are actually journalists like Justine Jankowski and Marine Zambrano who peddle the notion that employing Uyghurs makes you automatically guilty of forced labor. Which directly, and very unfairly, results in rising unemployment for Uyghurs and raises their risk of poverty. Anyhow, in this instance, tough luck: after walking around the factory with their hidden cameras, our 2 “journalists” couldn’t find “evidence” of their predetermined forced labor narrative as they didn’t see any Uyghur. Did that deter them? Not at all. As an alternative, they managed to find a 2022 recruitment video from this very factory where, so they claim, one of the factory’s managers is translated as saying: "I am addressing the inhabitants of Xinjiang and North Korea. The Chinese state subsidizes your hiring. We are waiting for you to come work. We will take care of all the administrative formalities." They then showed this video with their translation (this is important) to someone they claim is an “expert”, who turns out to be none other than the infamous Adrian Zenz, who works for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), an anti-communist propaganda shop based in Washington founded by an act of the US Congress. VOC is so extreme in their views that that they consider all Nazis killed by Soviets as "victims of communism", as well as all deaths resulting from Covid-19 ( and all babies that would have been born had China not introduced the 1-child policy. Zenz, in his characteristic dishonesty, claims after watching the video that the fact the company receives subsidies from the government to employ Uyghurs “means their production is linked to forced labor”. In their reporting, the journalists do not mention at all that Zenz works for an anti-communist propaganda shop, in fact they do not even mention his employer: they just present him as an “expert” and a “researcher”, which is insanely dishonest and disrespectful to their audience. Now, even on the face of it, contrary to what Zenz claims, this recruitment video of course wouldn’t mean this company has forced labor. First of all, it’s just a recruitment ad and the French "journalists" don’t demonstrate that the company actually employs any Uyghur. And even if they did, and if they did in fact receive subsidies to do so by the Chinese government, how would that even remotely be proof of forced labor? We’re back to the presumption of guilt that the OHCHR denounces. In fact the Chinese government, if and when they offer subsidies, probably do so for the very reason that companies do need extra incentives to hire Uyghurs given the risks involved, all because of propagandists like Zenz or these French journalists who equate employment of Uyghurs with "forced labor"… But that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that the French journalists actually mistranslated the 2022 recruitment video: at no point does the factory manager actually mention people from Xinjiang and North Korea! What she actually says, as you can see in the attached video (which is an extract from a brilliant debunk of the French investigation by a Chinese Youtuber), is: "We also have full attendance bonuses, overtime bonuses, etc. Welcome everyone to join our factory. We have various government subsidies, and when you come to our factory, we can discuss the details with you." Specifically they mistranslated "full attendance bonus" (Man Qin Jiang, 满勤奖) as "Xinjiang" (Xin Jiang, 新疆) and "overtime bonus" (Chao Tian Shu Jiang, 超天数奖) as "North Korea" (Chao Xian, 朝鲜)! It sounds somewhat similar to untrained ears, especially when spoken with a very heavy Shandong accent as the lady in the video, but it's obviously a radically different meaning. So to summarize: We have two French "journalists" who illegally posed as travel bloggers, trespassed into a factory under false pretenses, carried hidden cameras (also illegal), found zero evidence of their predetermined forced labor narrative, then mistranslated basic HR terms as "Xinjiang" and "North Korea" to fabricate a scandal. They topped it off by presenting a man from the "Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation"—which counts dead Nazis and COVID victims as "victims of communism"—as their neutral expert. This isn't even remotely journalism; it's a propaganda exercise designed to demonize China (and Decathlon) based on deceptive claims, while actively harming the very Uyghur population they claim to champion (as the OHCHR warns about). Though it pales in comparison to the harm these journalists inflict on Uyghurs, as a French person who enjoys regularly traveling in China, I’m also personally furious about these “journalists” using travel blogging as a cover for their deception. It means that Chinese people may justifiably question the motives of French travelers from now on. While this is a distant secondary concern compared to the real economic harm this type of propaganda inflicts on Uyghurs, it illustrates how propaganda disguised as journalism plants seeds of suspicion between ordinary people and erodes goodwill, which is undoubtedly also part of these “journalists’” intent here. It’s manufactured consent to increase tensions on both sides, just purely destructive and disgusting stuff.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1898628773429617089/ext_tw_video_thumb/1898626638759559168/pu/img/76tZlAs3nyk7hAws.jpg)
