China denies using ‘slave labour’ to make Christmas cards sold in Tesco

[fisher1]

The Chinese government has denied claims that it uses foreign prisoners as forced labour to make Christmas cards which are sold in Tesco stores across the UK.


It comes after a British girl found a plea from a prisoner in a Christmas card from a £1.50 pack sold by Tesco. Florence Widdicombe, 6, said her kitten-themed cards contained an alarming message that begged her to notify human rights organisations.


The message read: ‘We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qinqpu prison China. ‘Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.’ The message also asked the finder to contact a journalist known as Peter Humphrey, who spent two years in jail in China at the same Qingpu prison while working as a corporate fraud investigator in Shanghai, according to The Sunday Times.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/23/chin...our-make-christmas-cards-sold-tesco-11954346/

 

[Jaanbaz]

Commies deserves to be pushed back by all means necessary. The Chinese commies have Pakistani leadership in their pockets, watch how quickly mods come here close this thread too. Any other thread about the evil west can last long as many days and even weeks yet any thread criticizing China gets closed down pretty quickly. Pakistanis have become slave to China, I definitely see more and more Chinese getting/bribing to get NADRA card and Pakistani citizenship. Pakistanis should welcome their new Han Chinese over Lords, we all ready saw a little trailer of what Chinese get up to in Pakistan, wait until more and more come to Pakistan. Pretty soon most Pakistani men won't have enough women to marry since horny Chinese men would be trafficking Pakistani women into China.

 

[Beast]

Prisoners need to understand, they are not on holiday camp. They are serving sentence for their wrong and mistake on innocent people. They are there not on their freewill but serving sentence to learn from their mistakes to be better people.

Commies deserves to be pushed back by all means necessary. The Chinese commies have Pakistani leadership in their pockets, watch how quickly mods come here close this thread too. Any other thread about the evil west can last long as many days and even weeks yet any thread criticizing China gets closed down pretty quickly. Pakistanis have become slave to China, I definitely see more and more Chinese getting/bribing to get NADRA card and Pakistani citizenship. Pakistanis should welcome their new Han Chinese over Lords, we all ready saw a little trailer of what Chinese get up to in Pakistan, wait until more and more come to Pakistan. Pretty soon most Pakistani men won't have enough women to marry since horny Chinese men would be trafficking Pakistani women into China.

American bot working hard for their master again... See how absurd these news and how quick these bot jump at it.

 

[Azadkashmir]

I get weird feeing this was rigged by British government propagandist as if it happens by chance someone finds card plea etc.

 

[FedererExpress]

Commies deserves to be pushed back by all means necessary. The Chinese commies have Pakistani leadership in their pockets, watch how quickly mods come here close this thread too. Any other thread about the evil west can last long as many days and even weeks yet any thread criticizing China gets closed down pretty quickly. Pakistanis have become slave to China, I definitely see more and more Chinese getting/bribing to get NADRA card and Pakistani citizenship. Pakistanis should welcome their new Han Chinese over Lords, we all ready saw a little trailer of what Chinese get up to in Pakistan, wait until more and more come to Pakistan. Pretty soon most Pakistani men won't have enough women to marry since horny Chinese men would be trafficking Pakistani women into China.

The Chinese Communist threat is now the biggest threat to the world. Their aggression must be countered all over the world in all areas. They are an extremely dangerous threat to our way of life.

 

[PakFactor]

The Chinese Communist threat is now the biggest threat to the world. Their aggression must be countered all over the world in all areas. They are an extremely dangerous threat to our way of life.

Lol, load of shit -- and the West going around over throwing governments and bombing other nations or droning them isn't a threat? Please give this sermon else-where.

 

[CHN Bamboo]

British media suddenly broke the news on Sunday saying that a 6-year-old girl from south London found a message for help from a Shanghai prisoner in a box of Christmas cards. The person who left the message said they were a group of foreigners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison who were forced into labor. They demanded help by notifying human rights organizations and contacting Peter Humphrey.

The news quickly exploded in the British press. Tesco, the UK retailer that sold the card, said it was shocked and suspended the relationship with a supplier in East China's Zhejiang Province.

Paradoxically, it was Humphrey himself who first reported the story. A Global Times reporter interviewed the Zhejiang manufacturer, a highly open printing company that did not have any strict security measures in place. The company flatly denied the allegations. On Monday, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also denied the existence of forced labor by foreign criminals in Shanghai Qingpu Prison.

This story reads like the plot of a novel or movie, and the current Western public opinion context likes such a story. Humphrey served a sentence in Qingpu Prison from 2014 to 2015. According to the message's logic, his cell mates still remembered him and asked him for help. The card with the message actually flew to the UK and ended up in his hands, which required quite a lot of lucks to make a low-probability scenario become a sensational story.

The West is fiercely attacking China's human rights. It is at this moment that Humphrey threw out a story of asking for help through Christmas cards. Such stories are tailored for today's Western media. No one in the West is keen to verify the truth of the accusations.

Not long ago, Australian media fabricated a story of a Chinese defecting spy named Wang Liqiang, who was hyped up by the Western media. When the story became too false to be true, the Australians came out and said the alleged spy may have exaggerated his role. But the Australian media that made up the fake news have not been censured by Western public opinion.

As is known to all, in Chinese prisons, the reeducation process of prisoners involves labor within one's capacity. This is in keeping with legal prison management, which enjoys the support of Chinese society and has never been a source of dispute. There has been no large-scale Western opposition to the idea of reeducating through labor in Chinese prisons.

Over the years, some Westerners have constantly tried to find fault, or even set up traps, in an attempt to extract stories from the tens of billions of items of Chinese exports, claiming some are Chinese prison products with a sentimental story attached. Their purpose is to prove what an inhuman country China is and how China's prisons are crushing human rights.

This is an extremely dirty public opinion campaign aimed at slandering China. It covers up the basic facts of improvement in the rule of law and civilized prison administration in China. Some Western media outlets allow people like Humphrey to expose nonsense, seemingly objective, but in fact they are using specious details to create an illusion about China. It must be said that this is shameful.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1174610.shtml

 

[bbccdd1470]

British media suddenly broke the news on Sunday saying that a 6-year-old girl from south London found a message for help from a Shanghai prisoner in a box of Christmas cards. The person who left the message said they were a group of foreigners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison who were forced into labor. They demanded help by notifying human rights organizations and contacting Peter Humphrey.

The news quickly exploded in the British press. Tesco, the UK retailer that sold the card, said it was shocked and suspended the relationship with a supplier in East China's Zhejiang Province.

Paradoxically, it was Humphrey himself who first reported the story. A Global Times reporter interviewed the Zhejiang manufacturer, a highly open printing company that did not have any strict security measures in place. The company flatly denied the allegations. On Monday, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also denied the existence of forced labor by foreign criminals in Shanghai Qingpu Prison.

This story reads like the plot of a novel or movie, and the current Western public opinion context likes such a story. Humphrey served a sentence in Qingpu Prison from 2014 to 2015. According to the message's logic, his cell mates still remembered him and asked him for help. The card with the message actually flew to the UK and ended up in his hands, which required quite a lot of lucks to make a low-probability scenario become a sensational story.

The West is fiercely attacking China's human rights. It is at this moment that Humphrey threw out a story of asking for help through Christmas cards. Such stories are tailored for today's Western media. No one in the West is keen to verify the truth of the accusations.

Not long ago, Australian media fabricated a story of a Chinese defecting spy named Wang Liqiang, who was hyped up by the Western media. When the story became too false to be true, the Australians came out and said the alleged spy may have exaggerated his role. But the Australian media that made up the fake news have not been censured by Western public opinion.

As is known to all, in Chinese prisons, the reeducation process of prisoners involves labor within one's capacity. This is in keeping with legal prison management, which enjoys the support of Chinese society and has never been a source of dispute. There has been no large-scale Western opposition to the idea of reeducating through labor in Chinese prisons.

Over the years, some Westerners have constantly tried to find fault, or even set up traps, in an attempt to extract stories from the tens of billions of items of Chinese exports, claiming some are Chinese prison products with a sentimental story attached. Their purpose is to prove what an inhuman country China is and how China's prisons are crushing human rights.

This is an extremely dirty public opinion campaign aimed at slandering China. It covers up the basic facts of improvement in the rule of law and civilized prison administration in China. Some Western media outlets allow people like Humphrey to expose nonsense, seemingly objective, but in fact they are using specious details to create an illusion about China. It must be said that this is shameful.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1174610.shtml

I also read the news that the distance between the prison and the company (or factory) is 100 kilometer, that is too far away for cost efficiency, and imo what possible work of forced labor could do for the Christmas cards since I believe all production could be easily done by machines in factory.

 

[Globenim]

How to make "free press" news 101:

1) Drop all your decency at the door
2) Create a fake NGO or just pay someone and let it claim the trolls who make these pathethic troll threads about piss poor propaganda all rape children
3) Create a fake newspaper if you dont have any yet and claim sources familiar with the matter say trolls who make these troll threads rape children. Add photos of OP.
4) Publish and forward to everyone who hates the OP and is willing to share fakenews to cause as much reputation damage as possible before anyone can even defend itself
5 a) OP doesnt react: "OP refuses to answer our request about child rape allegations. Testimonies say..."
5 b) OP admits it: "Man of nationality of OP is a child rapist."
5 c) OP calls bullshit: "OP fourious over child rape allegations. Testimonies say..."
5 d) OP denies it: "OP denies to be a child rapist"
6) Ignore any journalist codex that requires you to rectify wrong reports in equal manner and insist its true or evidence to the contrary is all questionable.

I guess making up these silly "found a message that proves China is bad" stories for Christimas has become a tradition for 5 eye countries.

 

[smooth manifold]

even a 6 year girl was used as political tool. that's a blatant insult to human rights.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

I remember past allegation of slave labours who wrote in perfect English notes with a typical American handwriting. Anyone who grew up with Latin based writing system knows that German, French or English handwritings, though using the same letters, are different in shape and form. E.g. the German letter "r" is different than the French "r" in handwriting. German handwriting is based on Sütterlin and thus different from English handwriting.

 

[ARMalik]

A 6-year old finds a 'message' from someone in China ........ It is probably the most dumbest thing we have heard this year. But even more funny is the fact that the british media thinks that it can get away with such a dumb-arse news.

 

[艹艹艹]

There is no mention of 'uighur' in this news

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Pretty soon most Pakistani men won't have enough women to marry since horny Chinese men would be trafficking Pakistani women into China

Thanks for letting us know you are a 14 year old.. Read your manga comics , you are in the wrong place.

 

[Rollno21]

Lol, load of shit -- and the West going around over throwing governments and bombing other nations or droning them isn't a threat? Please give this sermon else-where.

West might be wrong but you don't have to suck up to chinese .you must be blind otherwise you could have seen it .forget about Western propaganda at least believe your fellow countries men when they tell you how their spouses in China are n jail just for marrying a Pakistani .