By trawling tens of thousands of videos posted on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sister app, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has uncovered a largely hidden force that is helping to fuel China’s economic expansion. Geolocating the videos and reviewing Chinese state media reports allowed TBIJ, The New York Times and Der Spiegel to identify Xinjiang minority workers in 75 factories across 11 regions.

So let me get this straight. A British non-profit is making a claim of widespread slave labor by looking at TikTok videos? They’re not physically on the ground doing investigation, they’re not interviewing anyone, they’re just making massive claims based on short-form video content? Real journalism.

The region’s current five-year plan requires all able members of ethnic minority households to be employed

You can read the 5-year plan for the Xinjiang region here and there’s is absolutely no evidence for this claim.

Real journalism.

He added that HRW’s research showed swearing allegiance to the flag is “political indoctrination” and part of the suite of repressive policies that “constitute crimes against humanity”.

Wow. Really. So the USA has been committing crimes against humanity en masse every single day for over a century by having millions of children recite the pledge of allegiance in school? Real journalism.

The 5-year plan, however, does include some gems:

We will implement modern vocational and technical education quality improvement plans, build a number of high-level vocational technical colleges and majors, and steadily develop vocational undergraduate education. We will deepen the integration of vocational and general education and achieve mutual recognition and vertical flow between vocational and technical education and general education.

Because as we know from history, whenever you want to subjugate an entire ethnicity and use them for slave labor you build technical colleges and focus on ensuring that vocational, technical, and general education are not mutually exclusive. You want well-rounded slaves, after all.

Or this gem:

We will strictly implement policies complementing kindergartens (配套园政策) in urban communities, actively develop infant and childcare service institutions of various forms, encourage employers with the necessary conditions to provide infant care services, support social forces such as enterprises, public institutions, and social organizations in their provision of inclusive childcare services, and encourage kindergartens to develop integrated nursery and childcare services. We will promote the professional and standardized development of infant care services and improve the quality and level of childcare and early childhood education.

Because when you’re engaged in mass slave labor and genocide, as we know from history, the dictatorship must apply strict discipline to its bureaucrats to improve childcare and early childhood education. Obviously.

And then of course we have this lovely comparison that shows exactly how bad it is Xinjiang.

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But sure. Let’s go with the “journalism that can’t even get basic facts about a document right without turning it into Western sinophobic propaganda slop” because they looked at so many TikToks that how could they possibly be wrong about their conclusions?