The government targeted companies involved in making seafood, aluminum and footwear, citing their links to labor programs affecting Chinese minorities.
The OP source cites “reports by human rights agencies” for its claim of forced labor without any further clarification. If it were a wikipedia article, those would be “weasel words” and the claim would merit a [citation needed]. In any event I don’t believe that there is a satisfying answer to the search for a definitive source on Xinjiang, because most media in China is state-run and most media about China in the west is similarly state-influenced.
Well you’re right that they’re not truly equivalent, as China’s state reporting is generally much higher quality than the slop that is produced from American State Department outrage mills. But I was addressing your seeming urge to want a truly unbiased source, which I don’t believe exists.
If you want to trawl through CCTV’s English website for posts about Xinjiang I invite you to do so, I posted that facebook post specifically because it was fresh in my mind from a previous discussion. And calling it “a literal facebook post” as though it’s the rantings of a suburban conspiracy theorist when it’s a post on facebook by a major news agency is more than a little misleading.
When they say “forced labor” what they mean is “working programs to economically empower women in places where tradition would force them to marry young and stay at home.”
This link is to a Facebook post by the CCP controlled “China Central TV” network.
I would be interested in hearing more, but I’m sure you understand why a better source would be a necessity.
The OP source cites “reports by human rights agencies” for its claim of forced labor without any further clarification. If it were a wikipedia article, those would be “weasel words” and the claim would merit a [citation needed]. In any event I don’t believe that there is a satisfying answer to the search for a definitive source on Xinjiang, because most media in China is state-run and most media about China in the west is similarly state-influenced.
State run is not the same as state influenced. You can’t honestly say they are equivalently influenced.
Also I will restate you posted a literal Facebook post. If you had a better source I know you would rather use that.
Well you’re right that they’re not truly equivalent, as China’s state reporting is generally much higher quality than the slop that is produced from American State Department outrage mills. But I was addressing your seeming urge to want a truly unbiased source, which I don’t believe exists.
If you want to trawl through CCTV’s English website for posts about Xinjiang I invite you to do so, I posted that facebook post specifically because it was fresh in my mind from a previous discussion. And calling it “a literal facebook post” as though it’s the rantings of a suburban conspiracy theorist when it’s a post on facebook by a major news agency is more than a little misleading.
Just like slavery in the 1800’s was about civilizing africans
…do you think that slaves were able to open plantations in their own communities and join the ruling political party?