Recently, the US and its allies from the Five Eyes, the British and Canadian governments, and the European Union (EU) have taken coordinated steps to gang up on China, imposing unilateral sanctions on some Chinese individuals and entities for so-called human rights violations in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The way they are acting is reminiscent of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.
Wuheqilin's painting Photo: Weibo “Can you tell us what unfair treatment you have suffered, Miss scarecrow?” a reporter in a Klan hood asked a scarecrow who is being nailed to a column of shame while ignoring real slaves picking cotton behind their backs. The satire illustration by Chinese patriotic cartoonist Wuheqilin released on Saturday has quickly gone viral on Chinese social media and it prompted netizens to share their own versions of the interpretation of the work.
Graphic by CGTN's Yin Yating The China office of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) didn't find any case of "forced labor" in Xinjiang, the BCI Shanghai representative office said in a statement released on its WeChat account on Friday. Since its registration in 2012, the office has conducted second-party credibility reviews and third-party verifications on its Xinjiang program and found no case of "forced labor" there, the statement said.
Photo taken on Oct. 17, 2020 shows a machine harvesting cotton in a field in Wenjiazhuang Village, Manasi County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
