China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying launched a series of tweets on Thursday, insisting that forced labor “is the biggest lie of the century aimed to restrict and suppress the relevant Chinese authorities and companies and contain China’s development.”
Though according to widespread investigative reporting, China’s communist officials have ramped up their crackdown on ethnic Uyghur minorities in the Xinjiang region. This includes mass internment of about one million people, required re-education programs, highly intrusive human and digital surveillance, religious suppression, enforced sterilization of women, and forced labor.
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A comprehensive investigation by The Associated Press, which involved interviews with some 30 former detainees, discovered China’s communist authorities subjected hundreds of thousands of Uyghur women to pregnancy checks, and ordered them to undergo sterilization procedures and abortions.
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The Chinese regime has denied the allegations, and has maintained the camps are vocational training centers and the associated programs are intended to curb religious extremism and prevent terrorism.
One of Chunying’s tweets further accused the United States of spreading lies and taking “egregious actions” to break international trade rules and “damage the interests of companies and consumers all over the world including those in the U.S.”
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Furthermore, a propaganda video with happy music accompanied Chunying’s tweets, featuring smiling workers at factories in Xinjiang, talking about how “a lot of our living habits have been changed and improved.”
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The video is reminiscent of the type of propaganda materials produced by the Chinese regime in trying to paint its repressive actions in Xinjiang. The BBC reported on such misinformation attempts after being given stage-managed access to many internment camps in 2019.
“We were being taken into places that appeared to have been carefully spruced up—with satellite images revealing that much of the security infrastructure had recently been removed,” the BBC’s John Sudworth wrote in the report. He talked of detainees, describing them with “smiles fixed in place,” talking about volunteering to have their “thoughts transformed” and presenting choreographed music and dance routines intended to impress on journalists that inmates previously “infected by extremism” were being “reborn” thanks to their internment.
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A Twitter spokesperson affirmed that China’s foreign ministry tweets did not break the company’s rules.
Twitter recently removed a tweet by China’s U.S. embassy challenging that Uyghur women have been de-radicalized, “emancipated” from extremism, and were no longer “baby-making machines.” The post was joined by an article by state mouthpiece China Daily, rejecting accusations of forced sterilization in Xinjiang.
Twitter said the tweet had “violated the Twitter rules” though did not provide further details.
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