China News Agency, Beijing, June 13 (Huang Yuqin) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on the 13th that attempts to use Xinjiang-related issues to interfere in China's internal affairs and contain China's development will never succeed.
A reporter asked a question. According to Reuters, a committee of the United Nations International Labour Organization recently requested a review of Xinjiang's labor policy. What's China's comment?
Wang Wenbin said that China has taken note of the conclusions of the International Labour Organization Standards Implementation Committee on China's implementation of the 1958 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, and firmly opposes the Committee's false accusations.
Wang Wenbin emphasized that the Chinese government always adheres to the people-centered development philosophy, attaches great importance to the protection of workers' rights and interests, protects the equal employment rights of workers of all ethnic groups, and ensures that workers of all ethnic groups have equal rights to participate in economic and social life and enjoy the fruits of economic and social development. .
The Chinese government has also actively undertaken international obligations, and has carried out fruitful cooperation with the International Labour Organization over the years, ratifying nearly 30 international labour conventions.
During this labor conference, many countries fully affirmed and spoke highly of China's implementation of the contract.
The Chinese government will continue to practice the people-centered development philosophy, actively fulfill its obligations under the Convention, and strive to achieve more adequate and higher-quality employment.
Wang Wenbin said that the United States and other countries slandered Xinjiang for the existence of "forced labor". In fact, the United States has been the evil place of the slave trade in history, and now it is the hardest hit area for human trafficking and forced labor.
Nearly 100,000 people in the United States are trafficked into forced labor from abroad every year, and at least 500,000 people are currently enslaved in the United States.
A large number of child laborers in the United States are engaged in agricultural labor, and many children work from the age of 8.
Between 240,000 and 325,000 women and children in the United States are subjected to sexual slavery.
He further said that the US slandered the existence of "internment camps" in Xinjiang. In fact, the US is a veteran of arbitrary detention and torture, and it is also the mastermind behind black prisons all over the world.
Over the years, under the guise of the so-called war on terror, the CIA has set up black prisons in at least 54 countries and regions, detaining up to 100,000 people, including Guantanamo Prison, Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, etc. The black prisons in the United States continue to break out the scandal of torture and torture of prisoners, and the cruelty of the methods is shocking.
Wang Wenbin said that the United States itself has serious problems of forced labor and child labor. So far, it has only ratified two of the eight core conventions of the International Labor Organization, and has yet to ratify the 1930 Forced Labor Convention and the 1958 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. However, during the conference, he hyped up Xinjiang-related issues, used the serious conference venue as a stage for political show, fabricated lies and made groundless accusations against China, made irresponsible remarks about China's compliance with the treaty, and pointed fingers at China. This is typical politicization and double standards. This is firmly opposed.
We advise the US side that its attempt to use Xinjiang-related issues to interfere in China's internal affairs and contain China's development will never succeed.
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