No matter how hard the United States tries to spin it, the laws it imposed in recent years regarding the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Northwest China are nothing more than a crude and nasty web of lies.
The world has already realized that Washington’s plan to use human rights as a tool to defame China, stifle its development, and maintain the waning U.S. hegemony underlies the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” and other similar laws.
These laws are founded on outright lies. The immense strides Xinjiang has made in advancing human rights and improving the lives of its citizens have conclusively shown that claims of “genocide” and “forced labor” are completely untrue.
A few simple examples suffice to illustrate the point. The Uygur population in Xinjiang grew from over 8.3 million in 2000 to over 11.6 million in 2020, and the region’s average life expectancy rose from less than 30 years in 1949 to 74.7 in 2019. From 1978 to 2020, the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in Xinjiang both saw increases 100 times greater than before.
These facts are well-documented and are conspicuous to all open and fair minds. In recent years, more than 2,000 government officials, religious personnel, and journalists from over 100 countries and organizations have visited Xinjiang. What they have seen is a peaceful Xinjiang with steady development.