Stop deliberately smearing and attacking China! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs named the BBC as a liar, and Russian officials condemned it as …
[Global Times reporter Fan Lingzhi Liu Xin Bai Yiyi Liu Yupeng] "Recently, there have been too many false information and smearing words against Xinjiang and China. Behind these false information, you can often find some familiar names, such as BBC." On February 4th, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin named the BBC as a liar. The day before, the BBC broadcast a sensational report claiming that "women in’ re-education camps’ in Xinjiang, China were systematically raped and tortured". Some scholars told the Global Times reporter on the 4th that the BBC and other western media kept breaking the bottom line in their reports on Xinjiang, which showed that they were becoming more and more absurd on the road of making false news, and they could only use inferior methods to discredit China. On the 4th, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that China had made solemn representations about another fake news about the China epidemic broadcast by the BBC a few days ago, and reserved the right to take further measures against it.
"Another lie about Xinjiang"
This report about Xinjiang, broadcast by BBC on Wednesday, interviewed some Uighur women who are now in the west, but gave no other evidence except their descriptions. The comments in the report are quoted from Zheng Guoen, an anti-China scholar who has repeatedly publicly faked. Subsequently, on the 4th, a spokesman for the State Council in the United States called for sending international observers to conduct an "independent investigation" on this accusation.
In response, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin criticized the BBC for being a liar at a regular press conference on the 4th. Wang Wenbin emphasized that, firstly, there is no so-called "re-education camp" in Xinjiang. Second, there is no such thing as "systematic sexual assault and abuse against women". Wang Wenbin took out a photo, saying that it was a Uighur woman named Zaomuge Dawuti interviewed by BBC on July 17th, 2020. This person broke all kinds of so-called "testimonies", but the fact is that she made up too many lies. Wang Wenbin said that the woman claimed to have been held in a "re-education camp", but in fact, she had never studied in a training center. She claimed to have been "forcibly sterilized and had her uterus removed", but in fact, when she gave birth to her third child in the Maternity Hospital of Urumqi Maternal and Child Health Hospital in March 2013, she volunteered to be ligated after cesarean section. She was not sterilized at all, and her uterus was not removed … "This person named Zao Mure Dawuti has become an actor and tool for anti-China forces to attack and speculate on Xinjiang."
Wang Wenbin also said that Zheng Guoen interviewed in the report is a member of the far-right organization "Memorial Foundation for Communist Victims" established by the United States in 1983. This person is keen to concoct rumors about Xinjiang and slander China. The relevant reports and remarks published have long been proved to be false information. Wang Wenbin said: "When you know these facts, and then hear and see BBC and Zheng Guoen’s reports or reports about Xinjiang, you may draw a big question mark in your mind. Is this another lie about Xinjiang?"
"Tragic experience" is inconsistent.
In fact, this sensational report is full of the usual routines of western anti-China reports. A scholar on Xinjiang-related issues told the Global Times on the 4th: "In this report, we only saw an individual telling a story in vain, and didn’t provide forensic evidence to support it, not at all."
In response to this BBC report, some netizens uploaded a video on social media, in which Shayla Guli, the "main witness" of the report, made a statement about her "tragic situation" in Kazakhstan court after sneaking across the border to Kazakhstan, but she didn’t mention the so-called "large-scale sexual assault" at that time.
Jia Chunyang, an associate researcher at the American Institute of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said in an interview with the Global Times that the BBC had been exposed many times before for using false facts or pictures in China-related reports, such as describing some photos of traffic accidents as evidence of "repression". In addition, the BBC’s use of scenes such as crying of individual Uighur women is obviously an attempt to guide the mood of western readers, and the traces of posing are obvious.
As a matter of fact, in recent years, when western media made reports to discredit Xinjiang, they often asked some overseas Uighurs to "complain about their tragic experiences", which is a common method used by western media and overseas "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations to collude with each other to discredit China. Jia Chunyang said that some Uighurs were bewitched by reactionary propaganda abroad, thinking that overseas is a paradise, and went abroad in various ways. These people have no friends in the local area, and because of the limitation of language and education level, they lack the ability to survive in the local area. Overseas "East Turkistan" organizations took advantage of threats and inducements to fabricate "tragic experiences" to discredit China. Many cases have finally proved that what they said is pure rumor, and these people themselves are even criminals.
“BBC彻底沦为假新闻工厂”
近来，BBC经常在疫情、香港、新疆等问题的报道中歪曲事实，抹黑中国。外交部网站2月4日称，外交部新闻司有关负责人日前就BBC1月29日播出有关中国疫情的假新闻向其驻京分社负责人提出严正交涉。中方表示，BBC在该报道中不仅翻炒疫情“隐瞒论”“源头论”“责任论”，甚至公然将一段反恐演习视频作为中国防疫部门“暴力执法、侵犯人权”新闻播出。中方要求BBC及驻京分社就假新闻作出公开道歉，摒弃意识形态偏见，停止蓄意抹黑攻击中国。中方保留采取进一步措施的权利。
BBC在涉华报道中不仅编造虚假新闻，还经常用断章取义的片段、阴阳怪气的旁白、阴沉昏暗的的画面等“技巧”来抹黑、丑化中国。日前，BBC播出了一篇探访疫情后湖北的报道。报道视频故意选取光线昏暗阴沉的画面，营造“中国民众受到压制”的假象。这种丑化中国的手法被中国网民怒斥为“BBC的阴间滤镜”。
In December last year, BBC released a report on a visit to Kuqa area in Xinjiang, fabricating false news about the existence of so-called "forced labor" in Xinjiang. Some China media then investigated and collected evidence according to the BBC videos one by one, and found that none of the reports were true. For example, the BBC claimed that it was blocked by the police, but the China media got the police law enforcement recorder that day and found that the police communicated smoothly with the BBC reporter, who also took the initiative to shake hands with the police, but afterwards the BBC fabricated the illusion that the police "blocked the filming" through video editing.
In Hong Kong, a mob tried to rob a policeman’s gun, and the policeman had to shoot the mob to avoid the gun being robbed. However, when the BBC broadcast this news, it deleted the action of the mob robbing the police gun, creating the illusion that "the police shot the peaceful demonstrators."
Internationally, BBC fraud is also famous. "Russia Today" TV reported that in 2018, when the French "Yellow Vest" protest was held in Paris, BBC TV reporter Ivshina admitted in a dialogue with Russian journalists who reported the "Yellow Vest" incident that the BBC editorial department asked for "any evidence of Russian intervention in French demonstrations". In response, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zacharova asked: "I want to ask the British media regulators what they think of the behavior of radio and television companies in their own country to fabricate facts?" Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, also said: "The BBC has completely become a fake news factory. The fake news it produces makes the British laugh themselves. "
In 2019, Anna Brice, a journalist who had worked for BBC for 11 years, revealed on social media that BBC had concocted false news about Syria’s possession of chemical weapons. Brice wrote on Twitter: "British compatriots should be more careful when watching BBC, because they hide the truth from the public and report a lot of false news."
Jia Chunyang said that the BBC and other Western media’s reports on China are never based on facts, but they first wear colored glasses to interview. "They just come to find’ criminal evidence’ for China." He said: "In the BBC reports, the local police, security guards, cameras and barbed wire are often photographed. These people or things are easily associated with autocracy and ubiquitous monitoring. In fact, the number of cameras per capita in many western cities is much higher than that in China. In addition, the words used by western media in Xinjiang-related reports are all "carefully selected". For example, the teaching and training center is called "‘camp", which is easily associated with Nazi concentration camps, and the "Spring and Autumn brushwork" is skillfully used. "
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