CHINA-FOREIGN POLICY: CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON CAUGHT OUT USING 1968 PHOTOS TO ACCUSE U.S. OF USING "BLACK SLAVES" FOR PICKING COTTON
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Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying has drawn derision for using a fake photograph of “Black slaves” to accuse the United States of hypocrisy over alleged forced labour in Xinjiang, according to the Apple Daily (April 3). It said Hua Chunying passed off a 1968 image of prisoners working in a Texas cotton field as a picture of Black slaves toiling in the U.S. under compulsion while alleging that at the regular Thursday press briefing that claims of forced labour and human rights abuses in the Uyghur-populated Xinjiang were nothing but malicious lies fabricated by anti-Beijing forces in an attempt to smear the country.
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