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[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

As the old saying goes: "Change the worlds start with ~~yourself~~ China"

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree, but can we try to focus on the topic at hand and discuss that?

[–] TheShadow277@slrpnk.net 20 points 5 months ago

It seems directly related to me. If the US government is fine with slave labour at home, then this decision is really only because the companies sanctioned are Chinese.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

In the meantime there are prisons in the US whos sole purpose is slave labor for capitalists

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


With those additions, 68 companies now appear on the so-called entity list of firms that the U.S. government says participate in forced labor programs, nearly double the number at the beginning of the year.

But in more recent years, companies making solar panels, flooring, cars, electronics, seafood and other goods have discovered that they, too, use components that were made in Xinjiang.

The United States put the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into effect two years ago to ban imports made wholly or partly in Xinjiang.

The Chinese government runs programs in the region to transfer groups of local people to factories, fields and mines around Xinjiang and in other parts of China.

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, said in a statement that the department would continue to investigate companies that use forced labor and hold those entities responsible.

Last month, major automakers saw their products halted at U.S. ports after they were found to be importing a part made by a company tied to forced labor in Xinjiang.


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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago