Question: Recently, “Hong Kong Watch”, a British NGO, fabricated a report, alleging that international capital has been invested in Chinese companies related to “forced labour” and “internment camps” in Xinjiang. What is the comment of the Chinese Embassy in the UK? Embassy Spokesperson: China strongly condemns the relevant report which spreads lies against the Xinjiang region and slander against China. The so-called “forced labor” and “internment camps” in Xinjiang are outright lies. In fact, employees in all sectors in Xinjiang, regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, or religion, sign labour contracts with their employers in accordance with China’s Labour Law, Labour Contract Law and other laws and regulations, and thus their labour relations are established and protected by law. There is no “forced labour” at all. Neither is there any so-called “internment camp” in Xinjiang. The vocational education and training centres set up in Xinjiang in accordance with the law are schools. They are no different from the “Desistance and Disengagement Programme” in the UK or the de-radicalisation centres in France. They are all active steps to realise preventative counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation goals. Some anti-China politicians, media outlets, and scholars in the UK have been acting in collusion to repeatedly spread rumours and provoke troubles. What they are doing is political manipulation under the pretext of human rights in an attempt to disrupt Xinjiang’s prosperity and stability and contain China’s development. They have long lost their credibility, and their plots will never succeed.
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