Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "CNBC International" channel.

"Academic, Adrien Zenz"—good one. What are my thoughts, you ask? I think you're a lot more likely to have incidences of compulsive labor in Vietnam and Bangladesh, the two countries you listed as alternatives, than in any part of China, including Xinjiang.
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@ronniechew6566 From what I've seen, human rights advocates are a mixture of anti-authoritarians willing to do or say anything to bring down a non liberal-democracy, and well-meaning but gullible minions oblivious to the agendas of their masters or the consequences of such an agenda's success. That's not to say that they don't sometimes shine a light on real problems. But it appears that sometimes they fabricate problems so that their light has somewhere to shine.
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The crux of the problem is that China won't allow independent investigations in Xinjiang. The most likely reason they won't allow it, aside from the fact that no one else is being asked to refute these kinds of allegations, is because they know that even if an independent investigation finds nothing, that it will be chalked up to the government effectively hiding the truth. And of course if they did find an incidence of something or other, it would be held up as proof of systemic human rights abuses throughout the region. So even if there is no abuse, China can't prove it to the satisfaction of their critics. The only thing they can hope to do is to provide a good enough product to overcome the political slander.
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@bosunbill9059 I'm not sure everyone is bribed, but everyone is biased, including me. I think the western media culture is so anti-Chinese that the truth doesn't matter to them at all. I think this stems from two things, the first of which is the disappointment in the results of the Tianenmen incident in 1989 which did not result in the replacement of the Chinese governemnt with a liberal democracy as hoped for and did result in violence between PLA soldiers and students with the kind of lopsided damage that one might expect in a fight between soldiers and students. The second force driving the anti-Chinese bias is the fact that China strikes back against journalists in-country that are too critical. If a journalist does a hit piece on country or the government or the culture, they won't be able to get their visa's renewed. Western journalists view themselves as heroes of the people, and they don't like having to follow rules of countries who don't place press freedom above national stability.
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And in an independent East Turkistan ruled by Uyghur nationalists they might have a rough time.
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