Pathetic: UN 'Human Rights' Council Votes Against Debating Chinese Communist Party's Uighur Genocide
TownhallJUL 2022
The Spin
Anti-China narrative
While the UK may have imposed fines for companies operating in China that fail to prove their products aren't linked to slavery, this isn't enough to punish Beijing for its human rights abuses. Britain should've followed the US and banned all imports of cotton from Xinjiang, as there's plenty of evidence that Uyghurs are being forced to pick the plant under slave-like conditions.
Pro-China narrative
Xinjiang cotton field operations have become highly mechanized, with no signs of forced labor. Nevertheless, the West continues to put forth baseless claims in an attempt to smear Beijing. Cotton-related sanctions will only damage the global cotton industry. If anyone is forcing and exploiting labor in Xinjiang, it's the West with their capitalist system of globalization.
Metaculus Prediction
There is a 20% chance that the UN will open an investigation or otherwise intervene on the issue of Xinjiang internment camps before 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
