If you've ever walked past a newsstand, if you subscribe to Libération, if you listen to the radio, or if you have a TV, you know that in 2020, China employed 500,000 slaves in the cotton fields of Xinjiang (1).
The only proof lay in the sheer repetition of the information.
Perhaps you've seen, because the news is entertaining, that the Chinese are manufacturing humanoid robots capable of performing somersaults.
But here's the scoop that may have escaped the media sledgehammer in our country: "They" are also manufacturing robot tractors that plow, analyze soils, sow, and harvest.
Théophraste R., author of the forthcoming pamphlet: "Xinjiang, 500,000 Uyghurs Reduced to Unemployment."