Beijing lashed out Thursday at recent U.S. media reports about forced labor of mostly ethnic Muslim detainees in China's far western Xinjiang region.
The stories are 'a malicious attack that severely distorts the fact,' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing in response to a question from the state-run People's Daily newspaper.
'It goes totally against the professional ethics of journalism,' she continued, before invoking President Donald Trump. 'No wonder the U.S. leader has criticised the behavior of some U.S. media.'
A perimeter fence is constructed around what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Dabancheng in China's far-west Xinjiang region
A satellite image shows buildings around Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western Xinjiang. This is one of the camps in Xinjiang, where up to one million Muslims are believed to be held
The Associated Press and others have reported that Muslims detained in internment camps have in some cases been forced to work in factories.
The AP found that clothing made in one camp had been shipped to an American sportswear company that supplies universities, colleges and schools.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday it is reviewing information published this week by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Associated Press that 'for the first time appears to link the internment camps identified in Western China to the importation of goods produced by forced labor.'
It is against U.S. law to import products of forced labor.
Two layers of barbed wire fencing ring the 'Hotan City apparel employment training base' where Hetian Taida has a factory in Hotan in Xinjiang
Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center
Hua said China has abolished re-education through labour and described the camps as vocational training centers that help families shake off poverty.
The trainees participate voluntarily, she said, contradicting former detainees and friends and relatives of detainees who have told the AP that they have no choice.
'I would like to ask the relevant U.S. media, which criticise and demonise China's efforts in fighting terrorism and extremism and in poverty relief, what they have done in the face of 45 million Americans living in poverty and the severe discrimination issues at home,' she said.
China has turned Xinjiang, home to the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, into a virtual police state to prevent violent extremism. It has locked up as many as one million people, by some estimates, in camps where they are forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination.
An armed police officer stands guard outside the entrance of what is officially called a vocational skills education centre in Hotan, Xinjiang
A building with the words 'Neighborhood Center' at the top is seen behind barbed wire fences in the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region
Chinese authorities say the camps, which they call training centers, offer free vocational training for Uighurs, Kazakhs and others, mostly Muslims, as part of a plan to bring minorities into 'a modern civilized' world and eliminate poverty in Xinjiang. They say that people in the centers have signed agreements to receive vocational training.
However, a dozen people who either had been in a camp or had friends or family in one told the AP that detainees they knew were given no choice but to work at the factories.
Most of the Uighurs and Kazakhs, who were interviewed in exile, also said that even people with professional jobs were retrained to do menial work.
Payment varied according to the factory. Some got paid nothing, while others earned up to several hundred dollars a month, they said - barely above minimum wage for the poorer parts of Xinjiang.
Security guards stand at the gates of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Huocheng County
Residents past by the entrance to the 'Hotan City apparel employment training base' where Hetian Taida has a factory in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region
A person with firsthand knowledge of the situation estimated that more than 10,000 detainees - or 10 to 20 per cent of the internment population there - are working in factories, with some earning just a tenth of what they used to earn before. The person declined to be named out of fear of retribution.
The predominantly Muslim Uighur and Kazakh ethnic minorities in China live mostly in the Xinjiang region bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, with a legacy dating to ancient traders on the Silk Road.
In recent decades, violent attacks by Uighur militants have killed hundreds and prompted the Chinese government to blanket Xinjiang with stifling security.
About two years ago, authorities launched a vast detention and re-education campaign. They also use checkpoints, GPS tracking and face-scanning cameras for surveillance of ethnic minorities in the region. The slightest perceived misstep can land someone in the internment camps.
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Main photo article Beijing lashed out Thursday at recent U.S. media reports about forced labor of mostly ethnic Muslim detainees in China’s far western Xinjiang region.
The stories are ‘a malicious attack that severely distorts the fact,’ Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily...
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