Curtain of Cotton
Anni Guli, a Uygur video blogger from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region didn’t expect a video she shared online over two years ago to suddenly go viral last month.
Anni Guli filmed the video on a cotton farm in Xinjiang in October 2018, during the cotton harvesting season. In the video she showed how a cotton picker worked on the farm. “This cotton picker costs 5 million yuan ($761,000) and can pick around 300 tons of cotton a day. It is superb,” she said in the video.
The video was “unearthed” by Chinese netizens as proof that allegations of “forced labor” in Xinjiang’s cotton industry are false. Recently, a number of major international apparel retailers have accused Xinjiang’s cotton industry of using “forced labor” to harvest cotton. However, Anni Guli’s video provides powerful
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