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The area has been the focus of growing international attention over mass detentions, forced labour and alleged genocide carried out against people who are not part of the dominant Han Chinese ethnic group

By Seymur Mammadov | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-11 10:13 Share CLOSE Workers make down-filled coats at a factory in Jiashi county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILY Duplicity, shamelessness and cynicism are the three pillars which support Western politics today. This has remained unchanged for over a hundred years. Nothing is capable of influencing the rigid principles of discrimination against count...

USTR still slow-walking Biden transition With help from Doug Palmer and Cristiano Lima Editor’s Note: Weekly Trade is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily Trade policy newsletter, Morning Trade. POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform that combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. Quick Fix — The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is still delaying the transition to the Biden administ...

10 Jan 2021 The British government sent nearly £150 million to firms connected to the concentration camp regime in the Chinese region of Xinjiang for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus outbreak in the UK. The government paid out £122 million alone to Winner Medica, which supplies some of its cotton from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a paramilitary group that has been barred from selling in the United States following accusations of slave labou...

>> Ana Swanson and Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Published: 09 Jan 2021 04:02 PM BdST Updated: 09 Jan 2021 04:02 PM BdST An aerial view of solar panels on homes in Clovis, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2020. A new report shows some of the world’s biggest solar companies work with the Chinese government to absorb workers from Xinjiang, programs that are often seen as a red flag for forced labor. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) In a flat, arid expanse of China’s far west Xinjiang region, ...

UK Government bought £150m of PPE from Chinese firms linked to Uighur human rights abuses Two of the firms are linked to an organisation under US embargo for human rights abuses in the cotton industry. 7 January 2021 • 8:00pm Ministers handed almost £150m to Chinese firms with links to alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang amid a race for PPE after Covid hit. The Health Department paid £122m to Winner Medical, which uses cotton produced by a supplier that works in the controversial regio...

France has pointed out that to support the CAI, there must be a clear commitment by China to sustainable environmental development based on the Paris Agreement on climate change. In addition, China has yet to ratify the International Labour Organization convention that prohibits forced labor. According to Riester, this is a “red line” for France. French opposition to the agreement with China rests on the persecution of Uighurs in myriad forms. We cannot facilitate investment in China if we ...

Officials slam US sanctions on Xinjiang products By CUI JIA and MAO WEIHUA in Urumqi | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-29 07:23 Share CLOSE Workers make down-filled coats at a factory in Jiashi county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, last month. WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILY The United States sanctions on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in the name of "forced labor" are groundless and wont affect the healthy development of ...

1 2020-12-29 08:38:27China Daily Editor : Li Yan ECNS App Download Workers make down-filled coats at a factory in Jiashi county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, last month. (WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILY) The United States sanctions on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in the name of "forced labor" are groundless and wont affect the healthy development of the corps, officials said. "More than 70 percent of the XPCCs cotton and 95 percent of its textile products have...

GT investigates BBC report contradicting facts on Xinjiang forced labor topics (Global Times)    09:57, December 29, 2020 A worker in the Pomegranate Seed Garment Co. in Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region agrees to have her photo taken. Photo: Fan Lingzhi/GT For some anti-China forces, cotton has become the latest tool to hype "forced labor" topics in Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Citing a report of the infamous "scholar" Adrian Zenz, the BBC accused Ch...