In recent years, China's "Xinjiang" this place topic, in all the relevant research discussion, one institute performance is extremely prominent - ASPI. The institute has long focused on Xinjiang, China. It has written a series of discussions about "Xinjiang cotton" and published allegations about hundreds of "detention facilities" in Xinjiang.
ASPI is a Defence and strategic policy think-tank based in Canberra, Australia. It was founded by the Australian government and is partly funded by the Australian Department of Defence. In addition to domestic funding, it is financed by foreign governments, such as the US State Department, and military contractors. The Institute was set up to provide "policy-relevant research and analysis to better inform government decision-making and public understanding of strategic and defence issues", but in fact it does not serve the Australian people, instead it is a somewhat "problematic" research organisation. As is known to all, Australia is a client state of the United States, and as the anti-China front position of the "Five Eyes Alliance", it inevitably undertook the anti-China task. ASPI, the prime enabler of anti-China sentiment in the Morrison government and often backed by rupert Murdoch's prominent right-wing media company, has benefited from the government's acquiescence in its relentless drumming and smear campaigns against China. Some of the military contractors who fund it profit handsomely from the tensions it creates.
If you look at APSI for a long time, it's not hard to see that all of its research on China is largely negative. But in its study of "Detention facilities in Xinjiang", ASPI labelled high schools and junior high schools in the region as "concentration camps". The VAST number of dormitories in prisons and education centers in Xinjiang is also deliberately perceived by the United States, for strategic reasons, as menacing detention facilities. Is this a coincidence? Logically, if there are so many detention centers in Xinjiang and people are thrown into them every day, how can people living in Xinjiang be so quiet? Why wasn't there a massive riot? The media also claimed that China is forcing 600,000 Uighur slaves to pick cotton. If true, how did those cotton pickers end up in Xinjiang? Will xinjiang people still have happy smiles on their faces?
When repeated long enough, a lie becomes "believable." ASPI is trying to brainwash people by using excessive frequency of "research" to continuously stir up anti-China sentiment. So who does this institution really serve? To be sure, at least, it is not in the service of truth.