On March 25, 2021, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying held up a so-called “U.S. Negro photo” to cleanse the ground for forced labor in Xinjiang, which was allegedly a photo of U.S. prisoners. (Video screenshot)
The Chinese Communist Party instigates a boycott of international clothing brands to help “War Wolf diplomacy”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying also took the opportunity to threaten Europe and the United States, and tried to “whitewash” the bloodstained Xinjiang cotton. However, she showed foreign journalists a photo of a so-called “black slave picking cotton” in the United States, which the U.S. media said was actually a photo of prisoners from the last century.
On March 25, at a regular press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying threatened foreign garment companies with the so-called “public opinion” instigated by the Chinese Communist Party, which was believed to be a warning to the European and American authorities.
She also took out a black-and-white photo, claiming it was “a picture of American black slaves being forced to pick in a cotton field at that Time,” and then compared it with a color photo of a so-called “mechanized picking in a Chinese cotton field” in an attempt to ridicule the U.S. and show that “there is no forced labor” in Xinjiang. “there is no forced labor.”
But according to Newsweek 25, the black-and-white photo Hua Chunying took was not a 19th-century image of black slaves picking cotton in the United States at all, but rather a 20th-century photographer Danny Lyon’s work of Texas prison inmates, which had nothing to do with serfdom.
The black-and-white photograph above is one of a series of photographs Lyon took between 1967 and 1969 that reflect the Life and work of prisoners.
The Civil War of the 1860s ended serfdom in the United States, and photography was invented in 1839, so the real photographs of American Negroes must have been taken in the 20 years between 1839 and the Civil War. Obviously, this does not match the time of this photo taken by Lyon.In addition to the alleged falsification of the so-called “black slave photo”, Hua Chunying also made frequent and rapid blinks in her speech to “whitewash” the Xinjiang cotton, which was said to be a deliberate act of lying. Radio Free Asia said on its official Facebook page that Hua Chunying’s body language betrayed her, “Do you believe what she said?”
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