"Anti-Beijing firebrand Vicky Xu is back in the fray after making a strategic withdrawal", said The Australian, an Australia-based newspaper, on July 3.

Born in China's Gansu province in 1994, Xu Xiuzhong became a journalist in Australia, and then later joined the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, where she participated in fabricating almost every major lie against China.

In 2020, she released a report about the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, claiming that tens of thousands of Uygur people were being used as "forced labor". She has never traveled to Xinjiang and never talked with any residents there. All her claims are based on the lies of the so-called World Uygur Congress.

It was via that report that Xu was welcomed by Western governments. She was invited to give lectures and touted as a "Xinjiang" expert, although she has still not visited Xinjiang. She is now reportedly working on a book. She has clearly gained much from promoting the lies.

She has harmed China, Xinjiang, and the people living there. With Xu "echoing" them, more in the West have been cheated into believing the lies of Adrian Zenz, an anti-China fundamentalist backed by the United States, which in turn has led to harsher sanctions being imposed upon Xinjiang, damaging the prospering economy there.

That's Xu's true "contributions to public life". The Australian called Xu a "firebrand", but before she joined the anti-China chorus Xu never had any public influence. She was far from being a public figure. It was not until she joined the anti-China "business" that certain Western political forces started hyping her up into an anti-China "firebrand".

Xu got support not because she has any achievement in journalism or research, but because her willingness to publicize the lie of "forced labor" in Xinjiang meet the demands of those trying to demonize China. Even today Xu's tweets often get only one or two likes or comments, which reflects her lack of true influence.

Xu's case is a typical trick of the West: They pick certain home-haters from China, lure them with personal gain into badmouthing their motherland, and hype up their voices as the "voice from China". That's why they can only get low-quality services such as those from Xu. She is one of the few with low morals and zero loyalty to her country of birth.

Thus, everybody knows what kind of persons certain Western politicians trust.

The author is a writer with China Daily.