An Ounce of Truth
‘The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has announced an imminent overproduction of cotton; main exporters being India, the U.S., and China. The U.S. has now launched a global smear campaign [against Xinjiang cotton] and if this proves successful, countries and companies alike will no longer be buying Chinese cotton,” explained French journalist and writer Maxime Vivas in an exclusive interview with Beijing Review, shortly after the Better Cotton Initiative—a non-profit, multi-stakeholder governance group based in Switzerland—initiated its so-called Xinjiang cotton boycott.
On March 19, Vivas shared a video of Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in
