Intel, a US multinational corporation that is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, published an open letter on its official website on Tuesday saying that its supply chain should not make use of goods or services from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. This is because some of its investors and customers were making inquiries about the allegations of "forced labor".
The letter was written in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English and Japanese. The rumors about forced labor in Xinjiang have long been disproved, and yet the company chooses to stand on the wrong side of history.
A reader's comment on Intel's micro blog, China's equivalent of Twitter, is the best response to Intel's move:"There is Xinjiang cotton in RMB; You better refuse it, too."
In other words, by choosing to believe Western politicians' lies about Xinjiang, Intel risks losing this major market. For six consecutive years, the Chinese mainland has been Intel's prime revenue source. In 2020, it earned $20.2 billion in revenue from the Chinese mainland, $2 billion more than runner-up Singapore.
Experience shows that Western companies who slander China have always lost a considerable proportion of their revenue following a boycott by Chinese consumers, a situation that Intel could soon face.
The incident also tells us that despite many media outlets reporting about Xinjiang, the local people appearing on camera to tell the truth about their lives and many Western journalists being invited to freely interview them, people in the West continue to believe the lies fabricated by biased Western media outlets.
Chinese media outlets make great efforts to tell the truth to people in the West and counterbalance the lies by certain "fakestream" media, as their own politicians call them, as that's a job that must be done despite the difficulties.
Increasingly, more people in the West are calling out the lies their media outlets are peddling. A day will come when the lies about Xinjiang are totally discarded and only truth prevails.
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