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Screenshot of BBC News
Many foreign netizens are puzzled, why in the BBC footage, foreign media are always blocked by "China" when they arrive in Xinjiang? What are the Chinese trying to hide?
In order to find out the truth, we followed the BBC interview route and returned to their filming location in Xinjiang.
When we took their videos, frame by frame screenshots and asked the local for verification, we were surprised to find that none of these so-called "monitored" images actually met the facts.
The so-called investigative journalism of the BBC is more like an "Oscar" drama with a script written and played.
large-scale face-slapping scene is here!
On November 19, BBC reporters visited Kuqa, Xinjiang. In December, the BBC released a video report on the trip. They claim that the investigation found that there is a lot of forced labor in the cotton spinning industry in Xinjiang, China. The beginning of the
video report was a group of BBC reporters in Xinjiang interviewing how they were "surveilled the whole process", with weird music and dim tones. The voiceover said:
"They are there to guard us."
" They are waiting forus ."
"Stopped from filming"
"Stopped fromfilming"
"Challenge"
"Questioned"
"Tracking"
"And followed". What are the facts of
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is jaw-dropping after reading the two comparison pictures ↓↓
In the news report, the BBC mentioned that they are being questioned by the police. However, the story is far from simple.
It turned out that a BBC reporter rushed to shoot a local garment factory called pomegranate seeds and clashed with the subject. The police came to the scene after receiving the call and were helping BBC reporters to coordinate and solve the problem.
In order to restore the truth, we found the person involved.
The person who "blocked" their shooting was named Jiang, the person in charge of logistics and security at the pomegranate seed garment factory. He told us that the BBC reporter arrived outside the factory on the same day and started filming without any explanation. He went to find out the situation and was photographed without expectation.
A sign prohibiting photography was posted at the entrance of the Pomegranate Seed Garment Factory
In order to get a clearer understanding of the facts, we also interviewed the police officer on duty who handled the case that day, Officer Li, Deputy Chief of the Exit-Entry Administration Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Kuqa City.
The following is the interview content:
Reporter: What was the situation when the BBC clashed with the masses that day? Police officer
Li: The appeal of foreign media reporters is that I shoot in public areas. This behavior should not be restricted. Then the appeal of the masses is that you photographed our factory. Without our permission, I am not willing to report my personal portrait rights and the situation of our factory to the outside. So this was the requirement of both parties at that time. Reporter
: The BBC claimed that their itinerary was tracked and their normal filming was blocked. Is that right? Police officer
Li: We have had a direct contact since the first day they came, and we are very clear about their job responsibilities. We clearly informed each other of their rights and obligations. They are very clear about the interview rules, so it is impossible for us to interfere with their interview activities in Kuqa.
As far as we know, BBC reporters have assured the police that they will not publish these videos involving personal privacy portraits in the news, but we still saw the beginning of the BBC report where Mr. Jiang reached out to block the camera.
creates a news trap to distort the truth
In order to cross-validate the claims of all parties, we contacted multiple parties and finally obtained the interview permission from the pomegranate seed garment factory. Pomegranate Seed Garment Factory has repeatedly asked us to report objectively. They said that they were really shocked by the BBC "interview".
BBC reporters suddenly visited the pomegranate seed garment factory on November 19, but it is ridiculous that they only sent a list of questions to the factory on December 1st. It's like, half a month after eating, the restaurant suddenly reissues a menu for you to order.
ask anyone in the worldCan a company accept a reporter's sudden visit and a strong request for investigation and interview, and then follow the procedure to make up a list of interview questions after half a month? This interview with
is more like a set trap. They didn’t really want to interview a garment factory, and they didn’t care whether there was a problem of "forced labor" in Xinjiang. Their interview here had only one purpose-that is Make news, get one or two shots with someone reaching out to block the camera, so you can have a perfect interaction.
They used information asymmetry and "professional" editing techniques to deliberately create the illusion that the Chinese government and the Chinese police interfered with the reporter's shooting, and unscrupulously "poured dirty water" on China.
Is this objective, truthful, fair, and just as the western media talk about it every day? Is the so-called freedom of the press to concoct fake news, which is the BBC's guidelines for news reporting?
New evidence of "forced labor"?
clip stitching!
Up to now, we have a certain understanding of the BBC interview. But we still don’t know whether the massive evidence that the BBC claims shows the existence of “forced labor” in Xinjiang’s cotton spinning industry is true? In particular, is there any "forced labor" in the pomegranate seed garment factory?
The title of the BBC report is "New evidence of Uighur forced labour in China's cotton industry" (New evidence of Uighur forced labour in China's cotton industry). After careful analysis, it will be discovered that, apart from the official Chinese reports and the pictures taken by them during their visit to the education and training center, the so-called new evidence by the BBC is actually just a picture. The picture shows a group of people moving at the location where the pomegranate seed factory is located. The BBC judged that the pomegranate seed factory used the labor force of the education and training center for production, and these people were forced to work in the factory.
BBC News screenshot
for this we asked the local government for verification. An insider who has worked in the area for a long time told us that there is no factory in this place in 2019. The three buildings on the left are the practice training center of the former education and training center. The education and training center was closed in October 2019, and all students have also completed their courses.
Pomegranate Seed Garment Factory leased these buildings when the factory was built in March 2020.
The operating method of the BBC is to “edit” the satellite image taken in 2019 and the location of the pomegranate seed garment factory together with the sentence: “Wow, this is the factory!” (Wow. This is the factory here...) The splicing of
made the audience seriously misunderstood, thinking that the pomegranate seed garment factory was using the personnel of the education and training center to "force" them to produce. Before investigating the facts, the BBC had already made a "presumption of guilt."
Regarding the issue of forced labor, we talked to Mr. Ouyang Zhijun, the general manager of the pomegranate seed garment factory. The following is a record of the conversation:
Reporter: What is the relationship between this place and the education and training center?
Ouyang Zhijun: The workers in our factory are not related to the training personnel. We are now all recruiting for the society. Reporter
: How do you recruit people from pomegranate seeds?
Ouyang Zhijun: They are recruited from various towns. Reporter
: Which towns? Is it in some local township?
Ouyang Zhijun: They are all local, all from Kuqa City. Reporter
: After they came, did they sign a labor contract with you?
Ouyang Zhijun: Yes, we recruit for training first, and after they meet our requirements within a month, they will begin to sign employment contracts.
To verify the statement of General Manager Ouyang Zhijun, we asked to visit the workshop and asked us to interview their employees individually and randomly.
We visited the workshop during the lunch break. Before entering the workshop, we also saw the workers playing in the playground. It is not like the foreign media said that these workers are living in dire straits.
Workers on lunch break are playing basketball.
In the workshop, Hainanmu Abola, a female Uyghur worker, told us that she wanted to come here to work. In the past, working as a farmer at home could earn more than 1,000 yuan in a month. 2500 yuan a month, including board and lodging.
When we interviewed here, we couldn't help but want to ask those Western politicians who said they would sanction these companies, what should workers like Hainanmu do? Have you ever considered what kind of hardships this family will bring to this family behind an irresponsible so-called "forced labor"?
Demonizing "Mandarin" teaching
When foreign media hyped up the issue of forced labor, they also regarded normal learning of Mandarin as part of "forced labor". For this reason, we also interviewed Hainanmu. Reporter
: Are you required to learn Mandarin?
Hainanmu: We learned it ourselves. We study together in the dormitory. Their Mandarin is not good, I teach them. Reporter
: Did anyone force you to learn Mandarin?
Hainanmu: We are not forced, we are willing to learn Mandarin by ourselves. When
was asked such a question, Hainanmu was very anxious, thinking about how to give us an accurate answer in unskilled Mandarin.
In the workshop, we also talked to several employees such as Rexianguli Abila. They all said that they came to work voluntarily, and Rexianguli took the initiative to hop over from other factories. Now through their own efforts , Became the foreman of the factory.
Looking back at the BBC report, we summarized several BBC's "arrogance and prejudice".
First, they regard themselves as the protagonist of the news and come to Xinjiang to deliberately create conflicts. They pieced together the facts, transferred the details, and drew a "presumption of guilt." The source of the interview is also very problematic. Two people were interviewed in the film, one was an anonymous overseas Xinjiang native, and the other was the notorious anti-China pioneer Zheng Guoen.
Screenshot of BBC News
Secondly, the BBC used the differences between Chinese and Western discourse systems to deliberately misinterpret Chinese propaganda slogans. In their films, slogans such as "work to get rich is glorious", which seem to be no problem for the Chinese, are also misinterpreted.
Our investigation and interview directly refutes the BBC report that there is no so-called "forced labor" in the pomegranate seed garment factory in Kuqa, and the Chinese government has never prevented foreign media reporters from conducting interviews. At the end of the
interview, a sentence from the security captain of the pomegranate seed garment factory left a deep impression on us. He said: "They (BBC reporters) always say which country they belong to in this place, as if they are superior. Although. I am a security guard, but our dignity is also very important, and our aspirations need to be respected."
He speaks plainly, but he understands the aspirations of ordinary Chinese people. BBC, did you hear that?
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