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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Pumpkinfactory on 2025-06-01 10:43:21+00:00.

The devil is so much in the details, if you only look at the facts the UK Bureau collected and confirmed, you can only confirm that people from Xinjiang have been participating in a jobs program over to other parts of China, and some of them have to work longer hours for better pay, and some are homesick. The US actors and their gloves then spin a much nefarious layer of interpretation on top of that.

The most amusing part for me is this part in the end:

Last year, the International Labour Organization decided to start measuring state-imposed forced labour by looking at what a given government is doing, rather than the conditions experienced at an individual level. Pointing to factors like a police state and policies targeting specific ethnicities, the organisation highlights how this kind of forced labour feeds on people’s vulnerabilities, such as a lack of job opportunities, but may not always exploit them economically because the political aims are more important.

So, they cannot find actual definitive suffering, coercion, and maltreatment on the individual level, and they throw out that framing all together and define “Forced Labour” as working in a state organised program with fair compensation and sponsored transport, when you are working in a state the US deems to be a police state. The victory of definitions everyone.