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Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 and 4.5 million births of the Uighur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region's projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher.

  BEIJING -- Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher. The report, shared exclusively with Reuters ahead of publication, also includes a previously unreported cache of research produced by Chinese academics and officials on Beijing’s intent behind the birth control...

2021-05-29 12:35:07 GMT2021-05-29 20:35:07(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- To date, China has completed the full coverage of provincial-level coordination mechanisms for the protection of minors across the country, said the Ministry of Civil Affairs Saturday. All of Chinas 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have established their leading groups or committees in charge of the protection of minors, with offices set up in ...

May 26, 2021 China’s ongoing suppression of Uyghur and other minority populations in Xinjiang continues to incite alarm among U.S. policymakers. A broad bipartisan consensus has coalesced around excising Chinese goods tainted by forced labor and human rights abuses from U.S. supply chains. Existing efforts have largely targeted agricultural and textile products, but policymakers are now looking into the solar industry’s ties to Xinjiang. Tracing these linkages, however, is no easy task. Pol...

The shirts were made at a plant in China using cotton procured from outside the country, the unit of Fast Retailing Co. said Tuesday.

by Tyler Durden Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 08:39 PM In the first confirmed case of US retaliation against allegations of Chinese quasi slavery, a shipment of shirts for Japans Uniqlo chain was blocked from entering the U.S in January on suspicion they were made with forced labor in Chinas Xinjiang region. Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing protested the block, claiming that all the cotton involved was grown outside of China, but the US denied the protest because there was not sufficient evidence to di...

Logos of the Uniqlo clothing chain (Provided by Fast Retailing Co.) Uniqlo brand cotton shirts were blocked at the Port of Los Angeles in January based on a U.S. import ban over forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region. Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, on May 19 denied use of materials made with forced labor.  The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped the shipments over an alleged violation of the U.S. government’s import ban on goods made from co...

(Bloomberg) -- At the Daqo New Energy Corp. factory in China’s Xinjiang region, workers carefully processed tall columns of refined silicon last week as a group of reporters and analysts looked on.

The report warns of the forced labor of the Uyghurs in the supply chain of solar panels Business and Economy News A report warns China against the use of forced labor in the solar panel manufacturing supply chain. A study by Sheffield Hallam University in the UK said China’s “labor transfers” in the north-western Xinjian region, according to rights groups, have affected Uyghur Muslim minorities. harassment and incarceration, “spreads in an atmosphere of unprecedented coercion, under the...

The report warns that Uyghurs are being forced to labor in the solar panel supply chain. Business and Economic News The report says that Beijing’s Uyghur labor plan “is equivalent to forced population transfer and enslavement.” A new report warns that China uses Uyghur forced labor in the global solar panel manufacturing supply chain. According to a study by Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom, China’s “labor transfer” in the Northwest region, and human rights groups s...