Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Department of the Treasury to use America’s representatives at international institutions to pressure those entities not to fund slavery around the world, especially Chinese government’s genocidal Uyghur slavery practices.
The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.
China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday banned three more Chinese companies from importing goods tainted by Uyghur forced labor.
Chinese cheap goods e-marketplace Temu “encouraged” suppliers to use Chinese cotton in their products despite the vast majority of that cotton being produced in occupied East Turkistan, the technology news site The Information alleged in a report published on Thursday, apparently disregarding the risk of using materials tainted by slave labor.
Justice for All, a human rights group based in Chicago, called for a boycott of Chinese online retail giant Shein to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday.
Chinese e-commerce company Temu launched a campaign targeting American consumers reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars this weekend, spearheaded by massive spending on Super Bowl advertising.
The Chinese discount shopping application Temu aired three commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl, encouraging Americans to “shop like a billionaire” at its website and disregard significant evidence that Temu profits from the Chinese Communist Party’s enslavement of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other members of Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkistan.
CBS and Paramount should not run ads for Temu — a CCP-linked retailer — during the Super Bowl, Rep. Carol Miller told Breitbart News.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony that Chinese seafood exports to the U.S. are tainted by forced labor.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a ban on Tuesday on imports from three Chinese companies selling industrial chemicals, wool, and yarn on the grounds that they profited from Beijing’s state-sponsored slave trade of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Turkic ethnic groups.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday warned there is an “extremely high risk” of encountering products made by slaves when shopping with two popular Chinese fast-fashion brands: Shein and Temu.
Chinese “fast fashion” companies could be using a U.S. import loophole exempting inexpensive packages from customs scrutiny to sell slave-made products directly to Americans, a forced labor expert told Congress on Tuesday.
A report published by Hong Kong Watch and Professor Laura T. Murphy of the University of Sheffield Hallam on Monday found that dozens of American, British, and Canadian state pension funds are passively invested in Chinese companies that face credible accusations of enslaving Uyghur Muslims.
Chinese customs data reviewed by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Tuesday showed exports from the Xinjiang region to the United States nearly tripled year-on-year in September 2022, despite tougher scrutiny for forced labor imposed by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
Two Texas Republicans, Reps. August Pfluger and Michael McCaul, are seeking answers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) about how the agency screens critical minerals imported from China.
The Chinese government released export data on Thursday that purportedly showed clothing shipments from Xinjiang province surging to their highest level in two years in July, even though a tough new U.S. law barring goods tainted with forced labor from the Uyghur Muslims took effect in June.
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday harangued America and Europe for using coal power to make up for electricity shortfalls – even though China is building coal plants with wild abandon, digging up and importing mountains of coal to fuel them, and making it very clear that China’s industrial goals will not be compromised in any way to satisfy climate activists.
Chinese solar power company Hoshine Silicon Industry was targeted by U.S. sanctions in June 2021 for allegedly using forced labor to create its products. A little over a year later, Hoshine stock is up 111 percent, the personal fortune of founder Luo Liguo has doubled, and the Luo family is spending a billion dollars to expand the company’s presence in Xinjiang province, home of the enslaved Uyghur Muslims.
American solar energy companies are reportedly having difficulty complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), a law that went into effect in June requiring importers to prove their goods are not tainted with slave labor from the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of China’s Xinjiang province.
Apple reportedly instructed its suppliers on Friday to ensure all components made in Taiwan are labeled “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei,” in accordance with speech codes enforced by the tyranny in Beijing.
China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper admitted this week, citing interviews with business owners and administrators, that the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has “dealt a big blow” to Chinese businesses in the occupied East Turkistan region where China is committing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic people.
The government of China announced it would make a large purchase of cotton from occupied East Turkistan for its reserves, an apparent desperate measure in light of the implementation of an American law banning slave-made products from the region.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reversed a good deal of spin from Beijing by admitting that U.S. demand for Chinese goods is falling sharply enough to damage the Chinese economy.
China’s Global Times government-run newspaper published an outraged editorial on Tuesday condemning America as a “menace” for implementing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which requires companies to prove any product imported from occupied East Turkistan is not made by slaves.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday railed at length against the alleged “unilateralism, protectionism, and bullying” of America’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) – but also admitted the law is working as intended, even before it officially went into effect on Tuesday.
Tuesday marked the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which passed Congress last year and was signed into law by President Joe Biden in December 2021.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently seized a shipment of products made by the U.S.-based shoe brand Skechers on suspicion that the items may have been manufactured through slave labor by Uyghur ethnic minorities from China’s western Xinjiang region, the state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.
American computer chip maker Intel issued an apology in Chinese text on Thursday for a previous statement in which it urged its Chinese suppliers to not source products from Xinjiang, a region where human rights experts say nearly every manufactured product is guaranteed to have been made by slaves.
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) lamented President Joe Biden’s decision to allow the U.S. team to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, calling it “an exceedingly weak gesture in response to a genocidal regime.”
President Joe Biden’s niece directed Coca-Cola’s government relations department while the brand lobbied against a bill that would hinder the United States’ multinational corporations from doing business with Communist China which maintains slave labor camps.
Since his debut as a leading protester against the United States, Colin Kaepernick has time and again slammed the U.S. over slavery.
Nike is reportedly working to undermine a bill that would punish China for using forced labor camps for manufacturing goods sold in the west.
