CCP Propaganda Tour Exploiting American Children in Occupied East Turkistan

 

Save Uyghur Condemns CCP Propaganda Tour Exploiting American Children in Occupied East Turkistan

Justice For All’s Save Uyghur campaign condemns the Chinese Communist Party’s use of American children in a staged propaganda tour of occupied East Turkistan.

The 40-member One Voice Children’s Choir arrived July 12 for a nine-day tour of Urumchi, Korla and other parts of East Turkistan. The CCP has framed the visit as a “China-U.S. Youth Exchange Initiative” to “foster friendship.” But the itinerary,  including visits to a 5G smart factory and a so-called smart cotton farm, appears designed to sanitize the reality of occupation, forced labor and mass repression.

These are not neutral cultural stops. Technology and cotton production are central to the CCP’s campaign of surveillance, coercion and forced labor against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. The United Nations has warned that the arbitrary and discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim communities may constitute international crimes, including crimes against humanity.

No American child should be used to whitewash atrocity crimes. Save Uyghur urges the tour organizers, parents and public officials to recognize how this visit is being weaponized and to refuse participation in CCP propaganda. Read the full press release.