This is an analysis of Xinjiang's forced concentration camp labor production entering Western supply chains. As an aside, the spouse and I were watching the wine episode "Reign of Terroir" of the...
This is an analysis of Xinjiang's forced concentration camp labor production entering Western supply chains.
As an aside, the spouse and I were watching the wine episode "Reign of Terroir" of the food documentary series, Rotten. China's ongoing mercantilist expansion into global commodity markets is being powered, at least in part, by prisoner slave labor and the forcible relocation of rural minority peoples (e.g.
Ninxiang Muslims, as vineyard workers in the wine industry) throughout the country.
It's not just Xinjiang, and any serious human rights-based consumerism should include a boycott on all Chinese products discovered to rely on forced labor.
Aside from the political tie-ins and anti-China foreign policy biases of the Trump administration, this is actually the right thing to do to promote a level global playing field for workers everywhere, and the elimination of the extraction of labor without consent and fair compensation.
There are other good arguments to decouple U.S. industries and consumers (as well as those of other putatively democratic nations) from Chinese suppliers, but this is far easier to justify than mere nationalist protectionism.
*In the interest of fairness, the U.S. has forced labor problems of its own, and here are companies whose products you may choose to avoid on that basis.
This is an analysis of Xinjiang's forced concentration camp labor production entering Western supply chains.
As an aside, the spouse and I were watching the wine episode "Reign of Terroir" of the food documentary series, Rotten. China's ongoing mercantilist expansion into global commodity markets is being powered, at least in part, by prisoner slave labor and the forcible relocation of rural minority peoples (e.g.
Ninxiang Muslims, as vineyard workers in the wine industry) throughout the country.
It's not just Xinjiang, and any serious human rights-based consumerism should include a boycott on all Chinese products discovered to rely on forced labor.
There's a somewhat under-reported trade enforcement boom in the U.S. right now, embargoing products which the U.S. Department of Labor has identified as produced with child labor or forced labor.
Aside from the political tie-ins and anti-China foreign policy biases of the Trump administration, this is actually the right thing to do to promote a level global playing field for workers everywhere, and the elimination of the extraction of labor without consent and fair compensation.
There are other good arguments to decouple U.S. industries and consumers (as well as those of other putatively democratic nations) from Chinese suppliers, but this is far easier to justify than mere nationalist protectionism.
*In the interest of fairness, the U.S. has forced labor problems of its own, and here are companies whose products you may choose to avoid on that basis.