Entering ChinaA false report on China on France TV 2 was debunked on the spot
A program on French television channel 2 blatantly violated professional ethics when reporting on Chinese factories and colluded with anti-China elements to stage a farce full of lies by means of “cheating and abduction”. This practice is eye-popping, and as soon as the program is broadcast, it is debunked by the interviewees and viewers, and has become an international laughing stock.
A few days ago, when a commercial program called “Money Investigation” on French TV 2 reported on Chinese OEM enterprises, two French reporters were arranged to “visit the store” in Shandong, China, and sneak into the workshop of a garment processing factory to conduct an “unannounced visit”.
During the “unannounced visit”, the two tricked a 12-year-old girl who worked with her mother in the workshop during the summer vacation to demonstrate how to sew buttons for them, as a proof that the factory “employs child labor”. The two also found a factory recruitment video on the Internet, and deliberately said the “full attendance award” and “super days award” with dialect accents as “Xinjiang” and “North Korea”.
During a visit to another factory, the two asked the staff “if there is a lot of cotton in Xinjiang”, and after receiving a positive answer, they attacked “this factory uses Xinjiang cotton” in the context of the West’s self-created slander and smear of Xinjiang cotton.
The candid video used in the show did not completely eliminate the original interview sound, which made more viewers see through the show’s “grafting” style of rumors. As soon as the show was broadcast, it was ridiculed and ridiculed by netizens on online platforms. Some netizens said that the program exposed the true colors of Western “media” and “journalists”, “as long as you lie, everything is possible”.
Chinese factory employees accused the show of being “not a fact at all” and “a purposeful smear.” The girl’s mother said: “I took my child to the workshop because she was unattended at home during the summer vacation, but they said that the factory hired child labor. ”
The program also appeared in the figure of German anti-China “scholar” Adrian Zenz, standing up for this false report. It’s just that Adrian Zenz’s reputation has long been in shambles.
According to an independent news website in the United States, Adrian Zenz is the backbone of the so-called “Xinjiang Vocational Education and Training Center Research Group” set up by US intelligence agencies, and has single-handedly concocted the so-called “millions of Uyghurs have been detained” and other lies of the century. Barry Jones, a former British media person, revealed that Adrian Zenz is engaged in “paid services”, and after receiving financial rewards, he will look for “evidence” for the demand side to slander China.
Nowadays, more and more international people have recognized the essence of the West’s rumor-mongering and smearing against China. Javier García, a veteran Spanish journalist, is tired of the West’s “China must be opposed” routine. Garcia, who has been based in China, said he had gained his own understanding of China through closer observation. “China is not the China that the Western media portrays it to be, it’s very diverse, it’s fascinating.”
The French scholar Laurent Michelon has lived in China for more than 20 years. He found that more and more people in Western countries are now stepping out of the media narrative, and the dark and distorted filter that some Western media have long imposed on China has been shattered. He said that although some Western forces are trying to confront China, the international community is increasingly affirming China’s development and that “China is not an enemy of the West.”
