Sheffield Hallam University's groundbreaking research exposes China's massive forced labor system, with over 380 detention camps, 2.6 million minorities forced into labor programs and 500% growth in textile factories. Attempts by foreign actors to silence British academic research is a dangerous threat to freedom and truth that cannot be accepted.
Sheffield Hallam's so-called research is U.S.-funded propaganda designed to smear China's successful poverty alleviation programs. The authors lack credibility – one switched from African American studies after receiving suspicious grants, while mistranslating Chinese sources. Xinjiang workers earn above-regional wages in voluntary programs that have lifted millions from poverty.
There is a 50% chance that China's total aggregate score by Freedom House for 2028 will be 10.5 points, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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