state media reports about the factory said it employed about 300 villagers, mostly women, who could earn as much as 90 yuan (about £10) a day
Those monsters.
Also, Zenz I'd once again the only 'expert' questioned. Fuck the Guardian.
Imagine any western country doing that lmao.
They wouldn't even discover the original outbreak. That 17 year old girl was entirely asymptomatic, the infection was discovered in a routine test.
Yes, that means they are randomly testing asymptomatic people without any known contacts. And these people aren't prime ministers or presidents, they're normal factory workers from a supposedly genocided ethnic minority. I can't help but laugh at anybody who still believes there's any government in Europe that has this shit under control, or that China is doing even a fraction of the repression Muslims face in Europe and America.
supposedly genocided ethnic minority.
China so bad at genocide that they keep giving free medical care to the targets.
The Chinese government sent 14.000 medical personel to the province to assist with the mass testing, and ensure the populations safety, but fuck mentioning that.
Let's ask the military industrial complex what they think about the situation.
Well clearly all those medical personel were just there to sterilize the Uighurs and harvest their organs.
There's a case of a chinese port city where 2 sailors tested positive. The response? The entire city was tested within the week.
It's gotten to the point where I open up an article on Xinjiang and I just ctrl + F "Zenz"
And what do ya know?
You could possibly blame it on the commodification of journalism that originally they printed all these articles with Zenz as the source and not looking too deeply into the source (Zenz)
THe Guardian can't possibly be unaware of Adrian Zenz connection to the CIA via the Victims for Communism Memorial foundation. They can't possibly unaware that he is a homophobe, christian fundamentalist that believes in the rapture and has said on record "i've been sent by God on a mission against Beijing"
You can only conclude that the Guardian liberals writing this trash have lined up with the most rapacious foreign policy of the most neocon think tanks that want a war with China.
Propaganda. You can trace this back to the old "propaganda model" that Chomsky described. More specifically, the phenomenon you mention has a name "The propaganda multiplier".
https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
Most of the "journalists" writing this stuff have never visited the area and are just repeating what other people have reported and giving it their own riff. They probably know some of it is bunk but believe there is something there, because "everyone else is writing about it". The news agencies are few, easy to control and always staffed with the right type of people who know what the real mission is. Real journalist today, can't earn a living in corporate news, they have to live on the margins, holding down other jobs or scrape by and they are constantly disparaged by mainstream media and the establishment.
All of this is by design, Capital has sought to exert control on populations since the printing press was invented, and they continue to refine their methods. The west has spent the better part of a century building this machine, journalism school functions as the first in a series of giant filters, either you accept that this is the way that things are done and you get a career or you find some other profession. Next comes corporate media, same test, will you repeat stuff you are almost 100% certain is wrong? good you passed, now you are in the running for a high profile spot in a news paper or as a talking head commentator. etc etc.
I think its funny to see these forced labor accusations, when in the US prison labor is widely employed. Many prison laborers make less than a dollar an hour.
Is anyone in the West going to cry about forced labor in the US? No?
Is anyone in the West going to cry about forced labor in the US?
🙋
That and we don't even know how many have caught covid in prisons. Last I heard anything shit was looking dire.
oh you mean like how we didn't have enough prison labor to fight the fires caused by climate change because we just let our prisoners die rather than free some of them and actually prevent them getting infected with a deadly disease?
Unlike in the UK where people receiving £12 a day on Universal Credit are forced to work demeaning jobs without compensation from the company for up to 30 days on a work 'trial' and subsequently sanctioned and left with nothing if they don't comply.
Hey, I'm in bonded servitude in the US, and no one talks about my plight. You think I want to work for money, money that simply good to my bank or landlord, or loan owner?
I'm only half way joking here, working is bondage, but that's not what they mean so fuck the guardian.
Chinese people are so beloved. They are literally cared by both the CPC and the US government.
American? We are talking about the unfree Chinese people,nobody care you
Another source is the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, "an independent, non-partisan think tank that produces expert and timely advice for Australia’s strategic and defence leaders."
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Thank you @Adrian_Zenz@hexbear.net for this. Very cool!
Per usual, the crux of the report is ignored in favor of ad hominem attacks. China is running ICE dungeons.
90 yuan/day is actually a reasonable amount to be making in somewhere as rural as Xinjiang, the average rural income is ~14,000 according to these numbers, I'd like to think .gov studies are reasonably accurate. Guarantee that's more than they were making beforehand.
There are also tons of affordable housing options and public transit. So that 22,000 yuan can go a long way. It's not poverty wages like we have in america, where 60% of your money goes to rent, 10% to car, 20% to food, and the last 10 might be lucky enough to get saved (but usually put into emergency expenses).
Agreed, with the caveat that the OP makes another post with a title that isn't just the propaganda headline. Something like "New Zenz just dropped:" that makes it clear that the source is our favorite unreliable end-timer sinophobe.
