Why Secrecy Haunts China’s Solar Factories in Xinjiang

[@louisa9617]

You tried 2-3 days to access the factories? At my workplace, the press needs to make an agreement weeks before, to enter our factories.

[@eliteffsquadron9932]

Where you work

[@louisa9617]

@@eliteffsquadron9932 I work at a multinational western company with factories in about 50 countries

[@eliteffsquadron9932]

@@louisa9617 didn’t see that coming

[@MrOkadaman28]

I'm not quite sure what this proves. Nigerian journalists simply cannot enter Western Oil and Gas company facilities in Nigeria and talk to whoever they want to. Any employee who speaks without clearance to journalists will be in serious trouble. If you doubt this, ask the HR of ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco or Shell.

[@immapilot9338]

This is what this horrible propaganda Anglo network does

[@theSWBFman]

But there's a difference cause the government isn't inviting journalists to come investigate them

[@ryanlaw213]

Western media always make jokes for everyone now, hahaha

[@shanetonkin2850]

The point was, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespersons has repeatedly made a great show of inviting foreign journalists to come to the region, look around, and see for themselves, only to then bar the vast majority of foreign journalists from even setting foot in the region. The handful that they do let in, find themselves constantly monitored, their movements restricted, and are not permitted to see or do anything other than a few heavily stage managed visits of pre-prepared locations , accompanied by the local authorities.

[@shanetonkin2850]

Also, you are right, generally speaking most businesses wouldn’t be keen on just randomly letting a journalist wander around their premises whenever they like. That said, when confronted with fairly serious and persistent accusations that they might be involved in widespread forced labour, most businesses WOULD be pretty keen to face up and at least partly accommodate their request in order to disprove those claims..

[@bou9015]

Just want to make sure I didn't miss anything. How did they get the conclusion of forcing labor in this video? I just see the official documents indicating that government is making effort to increase the job opportunities, and factories are rejecting interviews. All the other deductions like "having no other alternatives" seem to be unsolid assumptions from those "critics".

[@AndInMyBalls2]

yeah, even I can't see this in a negative light. they are getting skilled and then getting guaranteed employment, what's wrong with that. At least they are not literally killing them by not giving them a fair chance to earn the bread, like other countries do.

[@bou9015]

@Nick Asbury Yes I am.

[@AndInMyBalls2]

@Nick Asbury I am not.

[@william3951]

The filter and background music similar to thriller movies, haha

[@tbseow344]

Cotton, Tomatoes and now Solar Panels. Be prepared for next. This playbook is anticipated.

[@vincentgan81able]

Let's have an inquiry into Australia's treatment of aborigines and refugees especially Muslim ones led by malaysia,Singapore and Indonesia. Oh let's throw in Brunei as the lead as well. Why not? Western ethics at its best eh. Or WASP ethics? Why not eastern European ethics? Oh yeah its not western. Yeah we should leave the native people in their own reservation ya. It's their own choice right? Western ethics?cotton, solar, and yeah those days it's was palm oil.

[@chrisvaiuso6010]

wumao

[@chrisvaiuso6010]

@UCCjg2SlcS7GaT2rv2dl3ppQ The last wumao I talked to called himself Ann. You usually don't identify yourself. What's your deal?

[@MF_JONES]

@wUm Ao according to the latest official CCP figures the CCP has an approval rating of 600%

[@chrisvaiuso6010]

@wUm Ao ok buddy, I'll help you make your 50 cents. What's your take on this video? Do you believe it is false propaganda?

[@priyanks91]

This is seriously silly. I have clear instructions from my company to not speak on company behalf, and always request the questions be directed to media teams. And I work in India (democracy) and my company is a French-Italian MNC. SO, yeah, you can't just walk up to a worker leaving a site and expect your 'sensitive' questions be answered.

[@LNasterio]

by posting this comment, you will be considered a Chinese Bot...

[@jaiswaladitya511]

Offcourse this is propaganda

[@LNasterio]

interesting.... I just realized all other comments like this are getting deleted

[@MadMadOne]

Don't talk to media was the company law at Goldman Sachs too. In Goldman I may have been fired, in china the person will end up in prison. BTW, if you still think India is a democracy, that's cute.

[@_tsu_]

@@MadMadOne Goldman Sachs openly manipulates the market. That's is no surprise

[@terryc6858]

The other day I made a joke about how Adrian Zenz, the self claimed Tibet expert knows neither Tibetan nor Uyghur nor Madarin Chinese probably use google translate to write his PhD paper about Tibetan Education System. And when he translated the idiom “对症下药” to “Prescribe the right medicine”, exactly the same words given by google translate. I didn’t expect the joke to be true.

[@simplica1]

🤣🤣 And he thought he found some worthy evidence to further slam China...

[@alanyeap8078]

That is chinese idiom. Meaning find the root cause and solve it. And they thought it is giving medicine or drugs to the people.... 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦. These fxc ker need to learn chinese ideoms before even try to translate our 5000 years of beautiful language

[@luket2915]

@@alanyeap8078 not going to lie either translation gets the point across. What is the root cause of uyghurs? Religion? Race? Ideas? Is it right to "fix" this? Fix implies a change to what the ccp desires, and you can't just "solve" what people's identity with simple words. Context is important and in this case it's pretty obvious.

[@HanWang_Austin]

You should appreciate his effort of using Google translator. Most western media will just make up whatever they want to say without any evidence

[@tapist3482]

@@luket2915 The Uighurs' "symptom" is being poor, therefore less educated and living in less ideal conditions, not being Muslim or ethnic minority. It's kinda weird how you think the latter are "problems" the file is referring to. I won't say this implies you have certain mindset, but Chinese don't think like that.

[@johnnytshi]

Cotton didn't work, now solar... cool

[@route55qatar]

Of course, H&M is crying wolf their brand wiped out from China's e-commerce platform overnight. Even from the map!!!!

[@JohnSmith-jw3zw]

Don’t forget tomato and ketchup...

[@Hmyt-yucca]

Beware of western evils !

[@imdba3685]

Next one would be Air

[@MrChrist741]

So many 五毛， wonder how much guys has earned 😂

[@themiddlekingdom9121]

Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

[@pundlik9012]

Amazing

[@themiddlekingdom9121]

@@pundlik9012 the quote from Abraham Lincoln, I am referred Lincoln quote to the Western Media, Western Scholar like Adria Zenz and Western politicians. I hope people know what I am talking about. The Western countries, especially the U S A and her cousins, so called the Five Eyes Countries don't want to see China to rise and to prosper. They fabricated all kind of stories about China in general.

[@smoochie3331]

​@@themiddlekingdom9121 US is the one who invited china to WTO, check all your machines and technologies, where they comes from if not from western countries? if western countries want to make china poor, they can just banned china like cuba or north korea and your people would die starving like what happened in Mao era.

[@megamanx466]

@@themiddlekingdom9121 If that was so, then why would simple silicon processing and solar cell manufacturing companies hide *after* they were invited by China? Use reasoning! 🙄

[@zackchow6669]

@@smoochie3331 The US wanted a share in the Chinese market seeing Japan made a fortune there thus the invitation. But they wanted to keep China in the labor-intensive industry. The moment China starts to challenge the No.1 position of the US in the scientific and technological industry, they quickly started changing face as they have done with France and Japan revealing their behavioral pattern. You can search for Alstom and Toshiba and look it up yourself.

[@elmsdai4741]

This piece is mildly entertaining if you can read Chinese

[@duyataksis5210]

This piece is highly hilarious if you speak English.

[@chencenzhang1545]

It is hilarious start at 5:49.

[@TrudeaisaWEFpuppet]

Wumao

[@duyataksis5210]

@@TrudeaisaWEFpuppet CIA bot

[@kenlek869]

@@chencenzhang1545 Agree. I don't know who translated for Adrian Zenz, but they completely messed up the translation.

[@westfw3108]

I want to interview Jeff. If I were rejected, Amazon is forced labor....

[@ryanohanlon2589]

But they are not trying to interview the ceo of the company but ordinary workers 🤦‍♂️

[@charlesfeng3823]

@@ryanohanlon2589 Why the normal worker should accept your interview? Do you mean that they have no choices but accept your proposal? You are forcing them in your mind instead.

[@huizhonggao9050]

​@@ryanohanlon2589 Once you join one of the big name companies in the US, you need to finish various of traininig materials, some are focused on legal and ethical aspects. I believe any ordinary worker would learn that they can't speak on behalf of their employer in public, including during interviews. AFAIK some KZbinrs working for Facebook were forced to resign because they talked about their employer in the vlogs and had some negative comments.

[@ghowdp]

@@huizhonggao9050 i can verify that. I worked in the bay area

[@huangqianab]

So funny that some people think employees regardless of level should talk about their employers publicly, in any country. Never done any company privacy trainings? or I guess never employed by a proper corporate job.

[@vscppvscpp9001]

When I was in the US, there were always cars following me. I approached Intel, TI ... factory and they declined to let me in, I approached random workers walking out from the factory, and they refused to talk to me. The factories were heavily guarded and securities were everywhere. When I return home, the airport security even searched and interviewed me, and need to check my credit card records. :(

[@CausticLemons7]

Did the US Secretary of State invite journalists and others from around the world to come and see for themselves? Then did the workers refuse to speak to you, citing their company's rules? Then the company refused to speak to you, citing the governments rules? It just seems really weird to so publicly invite the world to visit and then have absolutely everyone refuse to speak or open their doors.

[@HallsteinI]

Guys it's a paid internet troll called a Wumao. The script is always the same, shift focus away from China's wrongdoings and point out something that happened in the past to justify things happening in the present.

[@zoroz1265]

@@HallsteinI tu es payé combien pour dire des conneries ?

[@jnfunvufb]

8@@HallsteinI They utmost enjoy freedom of speech by defending CCP on the internet. But when they close the computer, the freedom is turned into money and, they cage and enjoy their lives as pets of CCP in life. And to become human, they play Wumao again Gold business model; freedom scheme.

[@guoweilin9164]

I’m a video maker in Australia, according to the law in Australia and most countries, you need a permission when you film in a non public space. I don’t even film in a mall, which is probably a private property, and the security guards won’t let me if I do. Why double standard when it comes to China?

[@mustardseed9969]

B/c western media are shameless

[@Ilovecruise]

As a Hong Konger, seeing how the Chinese article reference and the selective translation by the media, just simply disgust me, it is not even the same meaning

[@serenachen9385]

There Notting call hong longer is only hk Chinese or just Chinese.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Ilovecruise]

@@serenachen9385 there is, Oxford dictionary have added “Hong Konger” back in 2014

[@obsidianstatue]

I think there is crime being committed in your home, now you must let me enter your home and check every single corner of your house, that includes your internet history and hard drive. If you don't let me do it, then you must have something to hide. Classic american media.

[@tinkerlew5706]

A sum up to the video: 1.There is little evidence, but we believe there are. 2.Stop buying their panels(and buy ours)

[@skitz0299]

You should by your own country’s stuff anyway, plus there is 100% evidence of forced Uighur persecution, the only people who don’t think so are the Chinese government.

[@lukey08]

@@skitz0299 Lol by evidence, are you quoting that Adrian Zenz nutcase that's funded by the CIA?

[@skitz0299]

@@lukey08 no, images of camps, cover up from Chinese authorities upon inquiry, leaked documents, images of Uighurs being chained onto trains etc

[@jeantsu6850]

@@skitz0299 images of camps? What images? Do you these images show enslaved people?

[@skitz0299]

@@jeantsu6850 they are satellite images of the places when thousands of Uighurs are kept. There was also a photo I saw of hundreds of Uighurs blindfolded kneeling on the floor in a Xingjing train station.

[@class6aa]

Omg the translation is sooooo wrong... the Chinese text says “focus on transfer of wealth surplus from cities to rural area and employment’. The english translation is “transfer of surplus labourers”. Like WHAT?

[@thisisfine_5420]

Reading the comment section is more enjoyable than the whole video.

[@dilanthesoulcrusher6151]

Nice. but you guys treat your womens as slaves. don't you

[@manfreds.6384]

chinese ccp troll having seizures and throwing tantrums hahaha

[@dilanthesoulcrusher6151]

@@manfreds.6384 Okay that is weird,my comment has nothing to do with china man. don't you know how mens in some muslim countries treat womens

[@momokui]

@@manfreds.6384 Manfred and Adrian are German...they can be SS, can't they?

[@hakim304]

@@dilanthesoulcrusher6151 u clearly haven't been to any Muslims countries.

[@satriojumeneng7055]

I don't know why those reporters like playing dumb. How Chinese government sees Uyghurs issue is very clear ... they sees Uyghurs issue is about young people don't have proper job for living and then they fell into radical thinking including terrorism. Therefore the action taken by Chinese government is to educate young Uyghurs to have skills so that they can be deployed in Chinese industries. What's wrong with this idea?

[@harryloo8544]

Translation: Don't know what's going on, therefore its evidence of forced labor.

[@habibaghasafari2237]

This entire video presented zero evidence of forced labour or oppression. I'm not taking any sides. I'm just saying by looking objectively on this particular video, it fails to convince me of the issue it wants to convey.

[@ritchiebesas631]

i wonder why. is it because they were not allowed entry? hmmm

[@sunghyunlee5245]

we know the forced labour and education camps exist because there are testimonies from survivors.

[@yudilai6704]

@@sunghyunlee5245 and there are the testimonies of the rehabilitated workers that says the opposite, now what?

[@sunghyunlee5245]

@@yudilai6704 If you live in China, I'm glad you are safe there. I understand you don't have access to information or freedom as us.

[@yudilai6704]

@Ryoshikari yes, rehabilitated. It’s nothing to lied about. Rehabilitate from being a extremists. Extremist and terrorist attack were a real problem, lots people died. Don’t tell me u didn’t know Afghanistan is right on xinjiang’s boarders

[@ronmalvert2387]

I popped up at First Solar, an American solar panel company, they won't let me in without appointment. What are they hiding from?

[@John-ft3mg]

You never know but you can use your brain to make up a story that it may not be a regular factory, they are beating their own workers inside, lol. 😝

[@drunkpekka4284]

Idk man, did you get followed around the area when you visited?

[@drunkpekka4284]

@@John-ft3mg Y'all realize that the CCP press release said to visit them to show they're not hiding anything, but let's all ignore that including the bit how they were under surveillance.

[@huangqianab]

Definitely you should make a full video parody using the same structure and lines🤣🤣

[@lvrt8371]

I wonder why you still trying so hard… lying doesn’t work… not anymore!

[@C5518-p5s]

"No one outside china knows what goes on inside these factories..." I'm going to take a guess and say that people make solar panels in them and get paid for it

[@wanglin406]

yeah, simple and why the heck the boss want to mack everything so complicated.Just pay salary.

[@lastanonymousperson]

Not necessarily. I’ve been to and inspected many China factories over the years. And most large companies have two different location. 1. Where everything is up to code and follows all labor laws and a hidden larger facility that goes off the books. This is a fact!

[@solidworkchan]

@@lastanonymousperson Please name such a company.

[@pedroalencar6407]

@@lastanonymousperson facts hahahaha

[@Kellyn1212]

@@lastanonymousperson you know there are many US companies registered in Ireland or Cayman Islands right?

[@Albert_Einstein_not]

When you quote Adrian Zenz in your video, the whole narrative becomes trash

[@creative_cooper]

Totally biased report. How do you walk into a company on a random day and expect the employees to leave their duties for an interview?

[@hiyukelavie2396]

4:17 Did you seriously just randomly drove up to their front door and asked to meet them? Are you not aware of the concept of setting up an appointment? If you're going to randomly show up at people's doorsteps, why do you make it sound like it's their fault when you get turned away? I understand that you are trying to paint China in a negative light with your report, but at least try to do it in a more intelligent manner?

[@anondelon]

mmmh the journalist literally says that they've been in contact for months? Maybe finish the video before commenting.

[@xiaomose7495]

@@anondelon so what kind of contact is that? I wonder 🤔

[@hiyukelavie2396]

@@anondelon That's even worse isn't it Been in contact for months and they suddenly decided to show up without an appointment

[@nobodies13]

Let's try this on any American company, I'm sure you'll get 6 bullets as a warning shots...

[@alexandriawang8292]

If someone just popped up at my door I would be on defense for ulterior motives too...

[@baiyu8646]

Here is how you make the news: Screen shot a satellite image of a factory. Go there and try to enter without appointment. Rejected by the factory. Claiming there is forced labor inside. Translate some government publicly available doc out of context. Now you have solid evidence of force labor. Let's make a big headline.

[@lwjen2]

This is some shoddy analysis Bloomberg, very disappointing. If a company doesn’t let you go inside their factory, does it mean they are doing something bad? This is poor journalism which didn’t present any real evidence and uses selective interpretations from sources which have not been proven. I hope journalism major in college these days will take critical thinking course or class about logical analysis which will prevent weak speculative conjecture

[@alexwee7495]

Well said. I worked for a multinational American Corporation and they will not allow reporters to have any ad hoc visit. In fact, the only time they will allow reporters in, is when it's to the company's advantage to do so, such as a positive story to report or the opening ceremony of their new plant etc. They will not allow reporters to just walk in and spy on their operation. So being denied entry is NORMAL for ALL companies and not just the Chinese ones. Bloomberg's attempt to twist this on the Company having something to hide is just shoddy journalism.

[@nawax000]

true, this media outlet as usual creates lots of lies and propaganda, we know for the truth that US solar can not compete with China since long time ago that is why they need to create "fake story" in order to defeat China solar and they are hoping the politicians will pick this momentum ... this is another kind of strategy by the US medias after the unproven genocide and forced cotton labor failed to yield anything but for sure who will buy US solar as their price is 20 times higher than China's for the same quality even some of China one is better ...

[@Benzi514]

Huh? This isn't poor journalism at all, they just showed the facts: That China says come and see, but when you do you don't get to see anything. Anything that couldn't be proven was cited and had attributes "alleged". This is textbook journalism. I think you need to take a step back and stop pushing the false narrative. Stick to the facts, do not simply repeat talking points or else you will look silly.

[@belmany]

I mean... uncovered secret documents? Looks like publicly available webpages... EDIT: sorry, just noticed he actually does say it's public records at 5:26

[@daniellim1253]

can you read them?

[@julieyuen6407]

Fake news!we bully，steal，lie and cheat !Please visit Xinjiang seeing is believing。

[@cyruspirnia8926]

You know u can delete your comment..

[@TimHe-f1x]

It's hilarious you work at a factory and wear its uniform becomes a slavery sign..

[@PeterJonesonline]

In Australia if you don’t take jobs offered by the job placement agency you are cut off your income support.

[@Liftium]

Same in most countries

[@TheMercifulKnight]

Have you been keeping up? These people aren't paid or are paid little in comparison to a normal worker ffs.

[@angelovq]

must be tough to be given money to work. try living in a developing nation without the luxury of even dreaming of such government handouts and safety net programs. Australians are no poor victims.

[@liviamartins1805]

@@TheMercifulKnight 🤪

[@jellyrun1]

Well , how hard can it be to not get a job if you don t want to?

[@CodeMeat]

Cotton failed! SOLAR NOW!

[@kennyq1806]

Yes they have written new script

[@ryanlaw213]

Solar will fail too, what’s next? This video looks like a monkey made video...

[@MetaView7]

The cotton lie doesn't work, so we need to find a new spin.

[@em_monarch]

Always

[@fabiojr8082]

they be like that

[@vueport99]

What cotton lie? They are synthetic?

[@Jun-su5st]

So right! It is disgusting. Politic action to against China.

[@MetaView7]

@@vueport99 LOL the BBC lies are pathetic.

[@conallgeneral8136]

possibly , allegedly , nothing of substance in this story , all tendentious speculation - you could make the same sort of video on almost any subject anywhere- just line up your material and say there could be a problem here but I am not sure. question is what is the purpose if this video ?

[@erwynn]

I saw a shed-like building with barbed wire fence in Cleveland the other day. Possibly a prison camp for minorities in the region.

[@staatsfunk965]

the fact the a company faces such accustions and has no interest in cleaning up those rumours is enough for me to get very suspicious. furthermore chinas regime is capable of of doing things worse than this so i think there is truth in this

[@YT-gv3cz]

The amount of resources and more importantly attention we are wasting on this kind of speculation nowadays is just ridiculous. There have always been disagreements between groups, which is just natural, but the abominable practice of inflating the slightest incoherence into a soap opera is certainly a new invention, and Bloomberg you are guilty as well.

[@yqisq6966]

Sid Meier's Civ series need to update cottons from a luxury resource to a strategic resource!

[@ytn00b3]

CEA 1882 again

[@eyuelbekele4499]

Yeah @@ytn00b3 morning

[@ghowdp]

Is it abnormal that employees are not allowed to talk to the media without their employers consent? All US companies have such a regulation...

[@Spawndex]

Thats not exactly true though is it

[@lswang3284]

We lied, we cheated, we stole

[@whosyourdaddy5719]

@Covert Puppy Two this is Pompeo's own word on the US while he was in charge of the CIA. better read news, keep up with your knowledge

[@ESWATzero]

@Covert Puppy Two it’s Covert Puppy constitution right for sure 😉

[@jameslim3850]

WESTERN USA Logic: If you hire Uygurs, you are practicing forced labor. If you don't hire Uygurs, you are discriminating against the Uygurs

[@MichaelG-hp5cn]

Very impressive work🤣🤣🤣 this is the most disgusting report I’ve ever seen... you can’t just use fake translation to express your false opinion...

[@burmaseman6773]

👎👎👎👎

[@intothemoat]

When a government official make welcoming statement, it does not automatically grant you all access. Use your common sense, you'd need consent to enter into any premises. I am sure this applies in your country too. I work for an American company and NO we are not allowed to speak to the media on the behalf of the company unless we are trained to do so.. your coverage is overdramatizing everything.

[@kurdx7778]

It is not about minority rights, it is about their business war! Kurds are facing so many problems by Turkish state, but US and UE don't care and don't talk about it, because Turkey is their partner.

[@wiyanto2054]

You can see your own eyes there is no forced labour. People would complain if there is forced labour

[@ChaoLiu36]

Someone give these guys a Oscar reward please

[@yys5919]

Next will be sheep. My parents traveled in Xinjiang and there are lots of lots of sheep and they are delicious. Be careful.

[@KevinPhillips_kw]

My parents traveled in Xinjiang ... did they? Did they really? nope!

[@yys5919]

@@KevinPhillips_kw Are you f*cking kidding me? I'm a Chinese and my parents can't travel in Xinjiang?? You got to be joking 🙃 🙃 🙃

[@jeankumik2435]

@@yys5919 isnt youtube blocked in china?

[@yys5919]

@@jeankumik2435 Well, it's true. but over 700k chinese students study abroad each year and tons of local chinese know how to use vpn. We are not as isolated as propagated by the west. Talk to them in real world. you will find out they are as open minded as the west youths

[@hughmungus2760]

Na. Next will be CO2. After all, those Uyghur prisoners breath right? Therefor the west must boycott chinese CO2.

[@Anvar1979]

It’s not about Uyghurs anymore, It’s about us consumers.

[@blandwinde]

Nobody will allow an unfriendly guy to poke in one's own country. The message is clear: we know who you are, what you are going to say, and you are not welcome.

[@meinchina666]

Employees not disclosing company's work process is a common thing, Isn't it? as Every company has own 'No Disclosure Contract' with their employee. I think It's same in every country.

[@quintonliu1146]

So all I get from this report is that they went to xinjiang and points some car on the road said they were been followed, and that they were denied interview with some factory. Boring

[@Sujay95]

So all I get from this report is that they went to xinjiang and exposed the CCP following them, and Chinese companies denied repeated appeals for interviews because they were too scared of facing tough questions and getting exposed.

[@donalain69]

Would the US allow Chinese „investigative Journalists“ Access to immigration detention Centers in Texas if they had placed false accusations about millions of Mexican immigrants getting held there for years? Or to Guantanamo where the US was keeping 22 Uyghur as prisoners when they themself called them terrorists?

[@juliusbakker4415]

Te the us state is not exactly “Clean” to say the least

[@ikkong8436]

Wouldn't it be normal that one will be denied access to a premise when the person appeared suddenly unannounced, and unexpected? Would you welcome and allow me into your home if i were to appear suddenly at your doorsteps unannounced without any introduction whatsoever?

[@dexon5843]

Adrian Zenz... Again he translate a minor part of the document and intentionally ignore other important point On 5:48, the poverty alleviation cadre name definitely not a Han chinese, the pronunciation more like a Muslim style name. 6:00 before "enter households" there's some text clearly indicate that "helping poor family to become rich" Below are the translation of whole paragraph by me, just compare with what Adrian said, you will find out how many info being ignored and twisted intentionally: He worked with the village working group in Hotan to help poor families get rid of poverty and become rich. He visited households every day, talked face-to-face with poor households, publicized the Party's policies, and find the right way according to the actual situation of each household, for targeted poverty alleviation. Nowadays, the thinking of the fellow villagers has been greatly changed, and their incomes are constantly increasing. In 2018, the two villages achieved overall poverty alleviation.

[@anidiotdoessht5395]

Google translate did not work very well for this one huh, and I like how they only show “evidence” in their favour which itself is twisted to suit their motive. Take 对症下药 for example, which is a chinese idiom, translated literally to be prescribing medicine according to the diagnosis, but means in this context, providing help to the poor based on their current situation. These lies work for their target audiences (people who don’t understand chinese) but sound like complete bullsh*t to those who do The video also mentions that the officials “enter every household” and “talk face to face” with them in a very serious tone as if their privacy is being intruded, but what the text actually meant was how government officials VISITED every household to UNDERSTAND their current situation to better craft policies. As u can see, simple changes in vocabulary and leaving out certain lines can drastically change the entire meaning of the sentence. Add to the fact that the video scrolls the English text over the original one very quickly to prevent people from reading the original text. Again, if you understand chinese, you’ll find this videos coverage extremely entertaining

[@ronaldphoong]

It is company policy for employees not to make opinions or speak for the company. Go to every company in other countries, it is standard policy. Maybe Bloomberg allows their workers to speak for their company but I doubt it. Even in a crisis, there is a spokesperson to make the announcement. I didn't see any forced labour from the videos. Most manufacturers have security fences to manage internal and external theft. One can't latch on that these are forced labour camps. I suggest western media reporters read more on security controls procedures before they spread fake news.

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

When I see the dislike ratio, I was glad that there re still people with clear mind in the West.

[@bestcollectionsofpranks3136]

Ccp trolls and bots aided by Kremlin trolls

[@eliteffsquadron9932]

During the 19 th century the Europeans colonized Africa and most of the world in order to fuel their industrial growth and in the 20 th century the Americans started buying workers from Africa and made them do force labor to fuel their growth but in the 21th century they both have understood the mistakes they made in the past and now prevent it from happening and lead their countries giving equal right to their citizens(workers) and make regulations to prevent their employers(corporates and companies) from exploiting them for profit.But the Chinese government doesn’t provide adequate rights to the people and as a result of this we are getting cheap goods from China

[@reachhh212]

BBC, BLOOMBERG, WSJ, NYT, WAPO, ZENZZZZ SQUAD ASSSEMBLEEEEE

[@tobiisiba1641]

Lol

[@megamanx466]

What about 'Al jazeera News'? 🤔

[@Sujay95]

50 CENT ARMY, ASSSEMBLEEEEE

[@gadgetgasspoll2923]

@@megamanx466 don't forget DW

[@kevincui1631]

@@Sujay95 hilarious.

[@stefaniaslovat]

I’m not saying that there is no forced labouring there. Because I’ve never been there. So I have no proof. But now, after seeing this video , I’m pretty sure that there is not forced labour in that region. This had a contrary effect.

[@104250023]

This clip is more interesting than the Netflix fantacy shows.

[@wedmunds]

You mean entertaining

[@mauriciokrebs2913]

i mean, is filmed like a hollywood movie, not like news.

[@attsealevel]

No mention of the 380 concentration camps in Xinjiang, or Hong Kong, Macau oppression, or how it bullies its neighbors or its support for Myanmar's military and so many other countries with authoritarian rule. No mention that China and Russia are the two UN security council countries that always vote in favor of military regimes (and against the suffering people). No mention of Chinese support for the Rote Khmer (that killed millions of Cambodians). No mention that China employs over 200,000 propaganda workers to scour the internet (esp sites like youtube that are completely blocked in China). And No mention of China's dog meat festival, where they celebrate breeding companion animals - not for pets, but to eat (I'm not kidding).

[@pika718l]

Ahhh why are you crying, are you hurt

[@omnomnom5359]

@@attsealevel hey man how much r u getting paid for lets get this money together

[@garethifan1034]

China - ''We welcome foreign journalists to see Xinjiang for themselves'' Journalists - ''Wonderful..let's go to to Xinjiang to see!!'' Arrive in Xinjiang - ''Now you can't see anything here..too ''sensitive'' let's delete all footage on your cameras''. Journalists - '' What are they hiding..what are they afraid of??'' = =

[@Sujay95]

wEsTeRn pRoPaGaNdAAAA rrreeeeeeeeeee

[@andreashauschild7757]

Some parts of these reports are so idiotic. 1st As a German, if a reporter approached me about happenings in the company i work for, i would refer him to the company as I do not have the authority to represent the company. I think this is pretty much standard. 2nd Uniforms, standing in military style and such, that is a Chinese, if not Asian culture thing. You can see it in most factories, restaurants, and or other places pretty much every day. 3rd Translating Chinese literal does not work. What they are sayin in a transposed English. In order to assist poor families we provide a in house consultation that will be ended with recommendations based on the persons skills and social needs. Honestly, this is a perfect example of a report trying to present something in the darkest light in the most vague way possible.

[@takenoko8248]

As a Chinese who understands English. See these interesting translation words deliberately chosen in the video. it's so funny.

[@igloballens]

China is prison?

[@AnalogueKid2112]

What was incorrect?

[@gj9544]

@@igloballens how is India and Pakistan doing?

[@Sekir80]

@@AnalogueKid2112 Copied from an other comment thread: Nothing wrong with the translation, but the use of words and cutting out the context of the sentence kinda mislead people that they doing bad things. 1. makes more sense if it translates to "they visit household" rather than "enter household", the tone sounds like they force themself into people household, "talk face to face" also sounds more aggressive than the Chinese wording 2. Spread party policies sound like they trying to brainwash them, but the context is that the "policies" imply the poverty alleviation programs, and they try to promote the programs to them. 3. "prescribe the right medicine" is the most ridiculous one, it a Chinese idiom meaning use the right method to solve the right problem. But hey, let make it means that they are drugging them right? 3 Ken Lek @Nick Rudin It is a PR article saying how grateful some Uighurs are for the help they received from the CPC and the Company directed to help their village. It is missing the previous page, and starts with someone called Mehmet thanking the Company for organizing their wedding, and thanking the CPC and the Company for helping the village to eradicate poverty. It then writes about how a Company employee who is Uighur and an assistant party secretary of the Company (probably a State Owned Enterprise) , spent two years in a village organizing poverty eradication, and how he postponed his wedding repeatedly to achieve his targets. He thanks his wife for her support, and also his company for organizing his wedding party. He mentions how he went door to door convincing villagers to work with the Company ( doesn't say how) to eradicate poverty. He also states that he is proud to have helped the 2 villages he was assigned to eradicate poverty in 2018. It ends with the GM and Secretary General of the Company, a Han Chinese probably, talk about how their Company has been working for the welfare of the people for the last 31 years... It is obviously a PR piece lauding the Company's efforts to achieve the targets the CPC have set them. That document does not prove slavery, and I do not know how Adrian Zenz concludes so. Rather, it proves that the CPC is serious about helping the Uighurs, and has set concrete goals for everything under it's control ( CPC, government officials, SOEs) to help eradicate Uighur poverty. The West does not force it's officials and publicly owned companies to achieve it's political aims, but China does. That doesn't make it diabolical, just different. And if I may add, successful bad effective too. Ken Lek Successful and effective ( auto correct keeps changing 'and' to 'bad'

[@AnalogueKid2112]

@@Sekir80 thanks for your answer. It sounds like you trust the CPC always does the right thing. I can't say the same. Why won't they acknowledge what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989? Why is that topic strictly forbidden from discussion on WeChat and elsewhere?

[@papabear90]

Anything that comes from Western media about xinjiang in China I don't believe. One minute it's cotton, next minute it's solar panels, next they will say shop keepers are slaves also 😂😂😂

[@ilin76bb]

1:54 very professional way of handing a drill machine on a roof.

[@ashishitD]

lol

[@jaxamilius5237]

wait a minute... u buy nike shoes and u are buying the product of forced labour.. how is this different? companies want profits!

[@jcnt9292]

The difference is one is paying low but it’s voluntary while the other is FORCED labor

[@krrk6337]

@@jcnt9292 Which part in this video that told you it's FORCED labor?

[@jaxamilius5237]

@@jcnt9292 i linked a video, but BQ did not allow it to be posted. look up 'beyond the swoosh' where when women are going through their period in the month, they have to pull down their pants and show the managers they are actually bleeding before they can be given the day off..

[@aeromotive2]

you can walk out of a sweatshop, you cant walk out of one these plants.. use your brain man

[@elite7329]

So you admit that the Uyghurs are being subjected to slavery in china?

[@fajarliong]

In any big corporate, be it western or eastern, there is a department called PR, employing people who are skilled in public communication and representing one corporate view. Isn't this the basic structure of any "for profit" organization. Isn't this structure taught from western business school? Hello... is there anyone with a little bit of decent corporate knowledge there in bloomberg?

[@KevinPhillips_kw]

No, just you wu mao!

[@hughmungus2760]

Na. trying to reason with these bad faith people is pointless, Just throw memes at them until their message becomes a joke.

[@tophatv2902]

Lol wu maos are rampant

[@Paranoid_Found]

Adrian Zenz: Don’t speak Chinese, don’t speak Uyghur, don’t speak Tibetan Also Adrian Zenz: I’m the expert. Trust me bro.

[@zbtun1447]

He doesn't actually care about those people.

[@momokui]

When your audience like joke, you gotta be a joker, when your audience like lies, you gotta be...

[@ghowdp]

I don't see any evidence of forced labor... I see workers walk in the factories on their own.

[@yinglisun6817]

I hope Bloomberg would do the same to any factory in USA.

[@davidmiller1114]

You must be one of the reeducation rejects...

[@charlesdegaulle2928]

@@davidmiller1114 you must be brainwashed maga Proud Boys. walk into any factory and demand access, telling them you are Proud.

[@gcyalbert]

The comments make the video like a joke😂

[@Ben-ij3td]

Steps of investigative journalism (1) Go to any factory in the world. (2) tell the receptionist you are a journalist and you want to know everything about their company, including their HR policies and processes. (3) See how you will get kicked out, and make sure you record it. (4) once you got kicked out, walk suspiciously around the complex and continue recording, until somebody calls a police. (5) make sure you record the police asking you to leave (6) there you have it! INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM!

[@chopoff80]

Very funny... Really fun, wish they read it

[@felixcsao4184]

Random car driving on the road These guys: are they following us? 😳

[@battalionstallion3894]

Well China has a bad habit of surveillance

[@jcrobin1991]

@@battalionstallion3894 and Western media has a worse habit of lying

[@erican9194]

Never expect this low quality piece would show up on Bloomberg, thought you’d have some decency, I was wrong

[@bestcollectionsofpranks3136]

Evil need to be reported ..they did great job

[@erican9194]

@@bestcollectionsofpranks3136 6:08 what that reporting said is these officials would think of individualized poverty alleviation plans for each family based on their conditions (what this common Chinese idiom 对症下药 ACTUALLY means in this context, instead of the idiom’s literal meaning of prescribing medicine targeting symptoms). Find anyone who learned Chinese and they’d point out how misleading and absurd this is. Shouldn’t a reporting be at least fact-based? 🤮

[@erican9194]

@@bestcollectionsofpranks3136 How can we trust them if they can’t even get translation right, especially at the part when they’re making a serious accusation?

[@sikaifu5509]

I wish I could make money by videotaping random roads, googling random stuff and using funny scary music.

[@jamesk5131]

wumao detected

[@omnomnom5359]

@@jamesk5131 calling people wumao sounds like a much more interesting job,

[@Ray-no9sj]

@@omnomnom5359 I wonder how much they get paid😂

[@ryanlaw213]

@@jamesk5131 You have a great job now. if I call others wumao, can I also get paid by US government?

[@mr.cosmos5199]

With modern technology, you don’t need even to be in Xinjiang to produce this type of propaganda.

[@RawCultureChannel]

i KNOW british people are talking about human rights when isreal exists.

[@newcrew4554]

take a photo, then circle the two parked cars "they have been following us". People don't want to be interviewed or don't want to speak on behalf of the company. "oh, the secrecy, something must be wrong".

[@ArthurYCLiu]

If you interpret things into what you want it to be, it will be.

[@lucysmith4242]

*says while sweating in CCP propaganda center*

[@ArthurYCLiu]

@@lucysmith4242 Fit yourself agaim into the model.

[@lucysmith4242]

@@ArthurYCLiu your English is terrible. And hey if you truly have freedom to express honest opinions. Say something bad about the CCP. Just make it up. It doesn't have to be true. Say something like "the CCP doesn't believe in the moon". I bet you can't

[@ArthurYCLiu]

@@lucysmith4242 LOL, u r further embarrassing yourself. what if u lose the bet

[@ArthurYCLiu]

@Nick Asbury If it is not an oppressive regime, it won't be so surprising, is it? ;)

[@thomasmazur5787]

"targeted poverty alleviation" sounds like a genocide ;) ... and they found this criminal activity in the public records. brutal.

[@adambzh]

well how many homeless in the US?

[@thomasmazur5787]

@@adambzh that was sarcasm :)

[@HKS-Digital]

Honestly, most of this video is pure speculation. It's disappointing. Please do a follow up story. 🙏

[@wailin1684]

was kinda curious and then Adrian Zenz popped up 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@pckuching3374]

Next one solar panel? Ghost music and greenish colour video

[@muyin]

"no one outside of China know what's going on" "some foreign governments and academic may have been forced labor"... My logic hurts

[@kingofapex9493]

OMG, do you really understand CHINESE? BTW, POOR people usually is beacause they can't find a job, so provide jobs to poor family is FORCED labour? Those so called EXPERTS, find materials on internet, and starting their story writting, how wonderful!

[@tedaspane1493]

Anytime I see this zen guy, I just just stop the video, no need to go further.

[@bummers]

Try going to any Intel wafer fab plants unofficially, sneaking around and see if security throw you out or not.

[@bummers]

@Wischmopps Sure. Let's try going to any factories belonging to western MNCs. Go ahead and try. I'll wait for you to share your adventures. I was from the tech industry back 20 years ago, so Intel wafer fab is the first to pop in mind. haha And yes, the same goes for any of these cotton plants isn't it? That if they invites you, you can go in. The point is that Bloomberg and BBC is painting a false narrative implying that these cotton factories are having tight securities ala prisons or internment camps for force labour when having security for factories is standard practices as far as any respectable MNCs is concerned.

[@tapist3482]

@Wischmopps There are ways that you can be invited into a factory, and there are ways that you'll be kicked out. The Bloomberg just managed to follow the latter one, for whatever the reason.

[@xsu-is7vq]

@@tapist3482 I would say they followed the route to get kicked out for the obvious reason, which is they wanted to get kicked out because that’s the only footage they were interested in.

[@tapist3482]

@@xsu-is7vq Exactly. I was just trying to be obscure on that.

[@mgronich948]

Adrian Zenz. The far right fundamentallist christian "expert" who's never been to Xinjiang. But Bloomberg is quoting him. Nice ominous music for the background.

[@yashmanwani6232]

Top notch investigative journalism! I feel like I learned and saw so much. Bloomberg guy managed to travel across China in the backseat of a comfortable car? Someone give him a pulitzer.

[@dplxy]

lol

[@Preacher_.]

9:17 Wait What!!? That seems Kinda IMPORTANT... 🤣 Literally sounds like a Government Jobs Program... You guys should do a story on Army Recruiters and the tactics they use in Poor Area Highschools in America...

[@fredwang3290]

It's funny to see how they translated the Chinese in their flavor and totally missed the point. Mainstream media, LOL.

[@ШанГаспаров]

@@ASS_ault Why do you have a slavic name?

[@Kevin-kd6hf]

oh , now solar panels? give Uighurs a break..

[@flyguille]

All countries has this kind of recruitment. By example in argentina there is a law that forces that a certain % of workers must come from minorities (by reasons of gender/ community / disabled persons that stil can perform work , etc. ) are called laws for inclusion. And if a company stablish next to a poor town and grab poor workers it is an advantage in the capitalism work, as it is capitalism rules, if you need intensive manual labour you won't stablish the factory in beverly hills and pretend to pay the minimun salary. So, it was happening since FORD manufactured the model T. He contracted poor ppl coming from farms because they were paid less and do less trouble (for a while). OHHH but if happens in china, must be a scandal, must be illegal, lets do war to the "axis of evil"!.

[@risingsun1156]

8th wonder of the world: Journalist - We can create something based on nothing.

[@gadgetgasspoll2923]

Hallelujah it's magic

[@class6aa]

I guess the saying “teaching a man to fish instead of giving him fish” is wrong. Because the man is lack of choice whether he wants to learn or not I guess.

[@TheLaXandro]

Give man a fish and he'll be fed for a day. Teach man to fish, and he'll be fed forever. Force a man to fish, and you'll be fed forever.

[@elite7329]

I'm pretty sure the saying didn't mention anything about slavery.

[@rdlulu]

It is such a hilarious piece for Chinese speakers...it’s like pointing to a school and calling students are all prisoners because they are “forced” to study

[@hughmungus2760]

I wish students in the west would pick up on this and start shouting "Help Im being genocided" when they're forced to stay back for detention.

[@yl7806]

And the Oscar goes to...

[@aportfolio8324]

I live in Xinjiang and this is very accurate. Not as open as they say they are here.

[@ObiWanKeighobi]

This was insightful until you starting talking to "Journalist" Zenz.

[@calvinsylveste8474]

9:16 So, everyone's assertions are based on beliefs and not evidence?

[@flyguille]

It is the normal recluting methods that happens in all countries, ohhh but if doing that in china must be a scandal.

[@elite7329]

It's a scandal in all countried INCLUDING China.

[@flyguille]

@@elite7329 nope, is all over the world, is called inclussions laws. Is include promoted by goberments all over the globe.

[@elite7329]

@@flyguille Forced labour is not something promoted by all governments, that is a blatant lie.

[@flyguille]

@@elite7329 first "Forced labour" is a lie. What is promoted all over the globe, is to include and encourage or do it mandatory, is to give labour to minorities (of any kind).

[@Steve-oj2lx]

Duh, employees don't speak for the company.

[@lemonade2699]

As usual, You still report _NEWS_ even if the Context is lost in translation

[@guygillmore2970]

I install solar panels professionally and I use Chinese panels (usually JA Solar) but I install mono-crystalline, not poly-crystalline - is silicon for these produced in these factories as well?

[@jaredgarbo3679]

No

[@guygillmore2970]

@@jaredgarbo3679 thanks for the reply! I was just wondering this morning if anyone knew....