BEIJING — China stepped up pressure Monday on foreign shoe and clothing brands to reject reports of abuses in Xinjiang, telling companies that are targeted by Beijing for boycotts to look more closely and pointing to a statement by one that it found no forced labor.
The Chinese government rejects complaints of abuses and says the camps are for job training to support economic development and combat Islamic radicalism.“Where did you get this evidence? That would be some fake scholars or distorted reports or so-called testimonies,” Xu said. “Many of these people are ill-intentioned. They just want to destabilize Xinjiang.”
H&M goods have disappeared from major Chinese e-commerce platforms but on Monday the other brands still were available. The smartphone apps for H&M, Adidas and Nike were missing Monday from major Chinese app stores. The supplier, Dong Guan Lu Zhou Shoes, confirmed some of its workforce are Uyghurs but said they are free to leave, according to Skechers. It said the company has conducted multiple audits of the supplier since 2017 and has “no reason to believe that Lu Zhou is using any forced labor.”
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
Some 5,800 'forced laborers' in Xinjiang, more than 2,900 of them from USA: Name: John Deere Cotton Harvester Place of Birth: USA Status: unpaid workers Place of work: Xinjiang Cost: expensive
No need for the government to pressure, we Chinese people already had enough of hypocrisy of these big Corp
The Xinjiang Genocide - an excerpt from the 'Genocide' panel by Daniel Dumbrill who asked 80 Canadian politicians why they accuse China of genocide. None of them dared to answer.
This story really brought out all the pro China bots.
The obvious solution, of course, is for China to stop its abuse. But I guess bullying companies that use this cotton is easier.
Any brands that went along with this should be boycotted...
The fact is that there is no problem of forced labor in Xinjiang, which has long been highly mechanized. These brands are just forced to make political statements.
Boycott Made in China crap.
When these companies try to preach right and wrong to you remember their silence when speaking out about Chinese abuses would effect their profits.
Hugo Boss and Asics have deleted the unauthorized Weibo posts of supporting Xinjiang cotton written by their Chinese employees. Should disciplinary action be taken?
This is not the behaviour of the innocent. This is the behaviour of a bully that controls enough of the market to throw its weight around. Just like what the US has been doing against the ICC, for example.
The truth is that black slaves still pick cotton from the fields in America today.
Took long enough for China to finally stand up to lies and disinformation.
The brands have been asked to bend by the CCP (not 'China') - and they will soon crawl
The Chinese government doesn’t care about human rights and is willing to bully companies into carrying water for them? You don’t say.
Well stop abusing people 🤷🤷♂️🤷🤷♂️🤷 Simple....
These companies know damn well that these are lies nothing but propaganda they should stay the hell out of politics And let Biden and trump start their cold war by themselves
In the end let's love lead at all cost. For in the end we are all going to the same source. Enjoy.
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Nobody expected the shoe shortage during covid,..