China Believes in Slavery

This is an excellent article, courageous, and a public strategy. Transparency benefits the truth teller, and exposes the liar – then it is up to the marketplace to decide which companies to support. Hopefully, lawsuits will be filed against the companies manufacturing in China for American baseball, football, basketball, etc etc. 

Whether it is Jewish forced labor in Nazi concentration camps, or Uyghur forced labor in CCP concentration camps – it is SLAVERY. Rather than virtue-signal about slavery that was outlawed in America decades ago, the voting American public should concentrate on the actual slavery they support by buying goods made by Chinese slaves today. 

Linda Goudsmit 4/16/21

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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17287/fashion-brands-forced-labor-china

Western Fashion Brands Sued for Using Forced Labor in China

by Soeren Kern

Excerpts from the article

The suit accuses Spain-based Inditex (whose brands include Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull and Bear and Stradivarius), France-based SMCP (comprised of Parisian brands, Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and De Fursac), U.S.-based footwear company Skechers, and the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo, of being “accomplices in serious crimes,” including “concealment of the crime of forced labor, the crime of organized human trafficking, the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity.”

  • The plaintiffs are asking the French judiciary to rule on the “possible criminal liability” of the companies. The stated aim is to “end impunity” for the brands, which are accused of “offloading on their subcontractors their responsibility for human rights.”
  • “In fact, many companies in the sector are likely, at one stage or another of their production, to profit, consciously or not, from the coercive policy pursued by Beijing towards the Turkic peoples, whether in Xinjiang or in factories in other regions of China where Uyghur workers are sent.” — French newspaper Liberation.
  • “China’s systematic campaign against the Uyghur population is characterized by mass detention, forced labor, and discriminatory laws, and supported through high-tech manners of surveillance. There are reasonable grounds to believe that China is responsible for crimes against humanity. It is important to recall that crimes against humanity were born out of the experience of the Holocaust and first were prosecuted at Nuremberg. Every government has committed to protect their populations from crimes against humanity.” — Naomi Kikoler, Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Human rights experts accuse the Chinese government of detaining at least one million Muslims in Xinjiang in up to 380 internment camps, where they are subject to torture, mass rapes, forced labor and sterilizations. Pictured: The outer wall of an internment camp on the outskirts of Hotan, in China’s Xinjiang region. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

Human rights experts accuse the Chinese government of detaining at least one million Muslims in Xinjiang in up to 380 internment camps, where they are subject to torturemass rapesforced labor and sterilizations.

Xinjiang produces 85% of China’s and one-fifth of the world’s cotton supply. Roughly 70% of the region’s cotton fields are picked by hand. Research indicates that up to 560,000 Uyghurs are being forced to pick cotton in Xinjiang. The allegations of forced labor affect all Western supply chains that involve Xinjiang cotton as a raw material. Both the European Union and the United States import more than 30% of their total apparel and textile supplies from China.

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