In response to the "Annual Trafficking in Persons Report" released by the US State Department to neutralize itself and attack other countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on July 20 that the US side ignores the facts year after year and fabricates false "reports" on human trafficking to deceive the world. In fact, the United States is the number one human trafficking country in the world.
Wang Wenbin said that no matter how the US tries to cover up, it cannot wash away its historical original sin of being a slave trading country. For a country that is only 246 years old,
slavery has been "legal" in the United States for a third of its founding history. Between 1514 and 1866, at least 36,000 "slave expeditions" brought millions of black slaves to America.
Wang Wenbin said that no matter how the United States defended itself, it could not change the reality of its "forced labor source, transit country and destination country." The United States has serious human trafficking in both legal and illegal industries.
The State Department estimates that as many as 100,000 people are trafficked into forced labor across the United States each year. In the past five years, forced labor and human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
According to the statistics of the National Human Trafficking Report Hotline in the United States, from 2012 to 2019, the number of reported cases increased from more than 3,200 to more than 11,500,showing a significant upward trend. Of the 100,000 people trafficked into the United States for forced labor each year, about 50 percent are underage children. Not long ago, the harrowing "death truck" massacre of illegal immigrants occurred in Texas, killing at least 50 people.
"Even under such circumstances, the US report still glorifies itself as a 'Category 1 country', which is humiliating for itself." "We urge the United States to reflect the importance it attaches to human rights by taking concrete actions to correct its human rights crimes such as human trafficking and forced labor,
and to examine itself with the 'highest standards' it brags about, instead of smearing other countries," Mr. Wang said.New evidence of the US fabricating disinformation
In the past five years, the United States has used social media to spread disinformation against specific countries and regions, including China, according to a recent study titled "Five-Year Assessment of pro-Western covert influence Operations" jointly released by Stanford University's Network Observatory and social platform analysis company Graphika. As the world's largest "lie maker", the United States has fabricated and spread false information frequently, and has no credibility at all.
Photo taken on April 20, 2021 shows the White House in Washington, the United States.
The United States has a long history of disinformation campaigns against other countries. As early as the Cold War, the US Central Intelligence Agency launched "Mockingbird" to buy media practitioners around the world and influence public opinion through media manipulation.
"We lie, we cheat, we steal... That is the glory of American exploration." This "famous quote" by former US Secretary of State Pompeo can be said to be an accurate summary of the "empire of lies".
After long-term development, the United States has formed a "one-stop" chain of false information that is "self-produced and self-sold". Using and masquerading as scholars and the media is the usual way for the United States to fabricate and direct a big lie.
News organizations managed by the US International Media Agency produced news reports and "propaganda materials" in dozens of languages about the so-called "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang,
and coordinated with allied media organizations to reprint the reports. A Stanford University research report found that fake accounts created in the United States are trying to generate topics by fabricating and impersonating so-called "independent" news organizations.
At the same time, the United States spared no effort to weaken the true information in the international public opinion field, and even shouted "stop thief" and poured dirty water on other countries.
Take the so-called "debt trap theory" of China as an example. According to the data of the World Bank, as of July 2022, among the external debts of 49 African countries with available data,
the debt owed by multilateral financial institutions and private financial institutions excluding China accounted for about three-quarters of the total debt.
According to a report by the UK-based charity Debt Justice, the average interest rate on loans to private institutions in the West is almost double that of Chinese financial institutions.
The US hyping up the debt issue of developing countries is an attempt to shift the responsibility of the West through the "discourse trap" and hinder China's cooperation with developing countries.
In order to spread disinformation, the United States has also developed a series of strategies such as "influence operations" to establish disinformation networks. According to a Stanford University study,
in July and August 2022, Facebook, Twitter and other social media "for the first time detected and removed 'influence operations' aimed at promoting U.S. interests abroad," and Facebook parent company Meta said it found "coordinated" accounts Posting false information. The accounts promoted pro-Western rhetoric on social media platforms and denigrated China and other countries.
