"Reinvestigation: French video program accusing Chinese company of 'forced labor' exposed as fabrications", 17 March 2025

A recent French video program alleging that a Chinese company was "forcing" ethnic Uygurs to produce cotton textiles for French sports brand Decathlon has now been confirmed as a poorly fabricated piece of propaganda against China.

Since its broadcast on France 2 and YouTube, the TV program "Cash Investigation" has drawn widespread criticism from viewers, with many pointing to selective editing, misleading narratives and blatant disregard for facts… In the program, two self-proclaimed French journalists...distorted a recruitment video from Jifa Group Co. Ltd., a textile company in Shandong Province, deliberately misrepresenting the Chinese term "Manqinjiang" (which means "full attendance bonus") as "Xinjiang" -- twisting ordinary employment incentive into propaganda against China...