My Take | The new ‘Jim Crow’ in the US is much worse than ‘forced’ labour in Xinjiang
- While the Congressional-Executive Commission on China has weaponised human and labour rights, Beijing should reciprocate by sanctioning America for widespread abuse and exploitation of prison labour
Another year, another propaganda report from the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC).
It’s getting to be the same allegations, year after year, with scant evidence and much exaggeration.
In a statement releasing the report, it declares: “The annual report reflects the view … that the failure of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to fulfil its obligations under international treaties, along with its systematic violation of human rights, pose a challenge to the rules-based international order and to the safety and security of US citizens and residents.
“These challenges require robust efforts by the US and its allies to address genocide; stanch the import of forced labour-made goods; circumvent censorship of the free flow of news and information; stop malign influence operations targeting US citizens and their families; and shine a light on the arbitrary detention and torture of political prisoners in China and Hong Kong.”
Violation of human rights? Genocide? Censorship? Challenge to the rules-based international order? Forced labour? Arbitrary detention and torture of political prisoners?
If you delete “China” and “Chinese” in the text, the CECC could just have been talking about the United States and its closest ally, Israel. It would be far more accurate.