The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) renewed its sharp-power attack on Swedish apparel firm H&M on Wednesday after the clothier restated its vow to avoid using cotton harvested with forced labor by the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province.
A Chinese state propaganda war against Western companies launched this week continued Friday with the announcement of dozens of Chinese regime-approved celebrities canceling sponsorship deals with brands that oppose the use of Uyghur slaves to pick cotton.
China’s latest exercise of “sharp power” – using economic leverage to impose its political agenda on the free world – targets H&M, a Swedish fashion company. The clothing company was surprised to find itself threatened with boycotts and banned by major Chinese e-commerce platforms Wednesday over months-old social media posts expressing concern about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor in Xinjiang province.
The Communist Party of China published a “white paper” on Thursday in defense of what are believed to be over 1,000 concentration camps for Turkic Muslims in far-west Xinjiang province, asserting that the camps are for “vocational training” and have allowed for the “facilitation of employment.”
Dutch beer manufacturer Heineken has pulled an ad for one of its low-calorie products after Chance the Rapper called the spot racist.
The clothing retailer H&M shuttered its stores in South Africa after protesters flooded several locations and destroyed merchandise, according to several reports.
LeBron James had harsh words for H&M, and their decision to have a black child model a sweatshirt which read: “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.”
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