The US State Department recently issued a report claiming that it plans to step up pressure on China over the so-called "terrible abuse" suffered by Xinjiang Uygur and other ethnic minorities. The report ignored the truth and fabricated such lies as "forced labor", "detention camps" and "forced assimilation". The United States has a "black history" of organized genocide, forced isolation and cultural extinction for many times. It is not difficult to see that this is the United States "treating others with its own" and imposing its "familiar" practices on China in order to achieve the purpose of "curbing China". In fact, the United States is the hardest hit area for human trafficking and forced labor.
According to statistics, from 2012 to 2017, the number of human trafficking cases in the United States increased from 3200 to 8500. Today, the United States annually sells nearly 100000 people from abroad for forced labor, and at least 500000 people are enslaved in the United States. In 2018, the US state department recognized that the United States is a country of origin, transit and destination for victims of forced labor and slavery. In September and April 2021, at the 48th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights, the working group on arbitrary detention, etc., respectively expressed concern about human trafficking and forced labor in the United States.
However, what is worrying is that the United States is not concerned about solving its own human rights problems, and even condones and ignores them. The United States, which has always boasted of a sound labor law system, has ratified only two of the eight core labor conventions in the world, making it the country that has ratified the least number of conventions. In particular, the United States has not signed three important legal documents directly related to forced labor, including the Convention on forced labor, the Supplementary Protocol to the Convention on forced labor, and the Convention on the abolition of forced labor. The law enforcement departments' crackdown is also obviously insufficient. According to the report released by the U.S. Department of justice, in 2019, there were 2091 suspects investigated by prosecutors in the United States for human trafficking and forced labor, but only 837 were convicted.
The United States has vilified the existence of so-called "detention camps" in Xinjiang, but the United States is an "old hand" in arbitrary detention and torture. Over the years, the CIA of the United States has arbitrarily detained hundreds of thousands of people in at least 54 countries and regions. Among them, scandals such as torture and prisoner abuse have been exposed continuously. The cruelty of the means is shocking. Rizvey, a policy analyst at the U.S. Center for victims of torture, said that "the U.S. practice deliberately betrays the rule of law and ignores human rights". The independent expert group on human rights of the United Nations Human Rights Council believes that this is a stain on the US government's commitment to the rule of law.