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So I’m reviewing a collection of Pacific War oral histories titled, weirdly enough,  The Pacific War Remembered. It’s a reissue of a book first published during the mid-1980s. It consists of compact testimonials from American protagonists in the greatest of all sea wars. And a sprightly read it is. The book is enlightening in several respects. First, let’s wax philosophical. Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson maintained that “there is properly no history; only biograph...

Over 570,000 Uighurs Involved In China Cotton Coerced Labour: Report 12/15/20 AT 5:48 AM Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced to pick cotton through a coercive state-run scheme, a report has said. The research published Monday by Washington-based think tank the Center for Global Policy is likely to heap more pressure on global brands such as Nike, Gap and Adidas, which have been accused of using Uighur forced labour in their ...

Share on Twitter Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in Chinas north-western Xinjiang region are being forced to pick cotton through a coercive state-run scheme, a report has said. Research published on Monday by Washington-based think tank the Center for Global Policy is likely to heap more pressure on global brands such as Nike, Gap and Adidas, which have been accused of using Uighur forced labour in their textile supply chains. Rights activists have said Xinjiang i...

2020-12-15 09:05:52 GMT2020-12-15 17:05:52(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Assistance by professionals from tertiary hospitals across China has helped health institutions in the countrys remote regions of Tibet and Xinjiang improve their service capacity and management, contributing to poverty alleviation and improvement in the health of locals, a government official said Tuesday. In each of the last five years, around 900 experts from tertiary hospitals were in...

Over half a million forced to pick cotton in Xinjiang: report By Helen Davidson / The Guardian, TAIPEI More than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater than previously thought, new research has suggested. The Xinjiang region produces more than 20 percent of the world’s cotton and 84 percent of China’s, but according to a new report released yesterday by the Center for Global Policy, there is significant e...

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said. Rights activists have said the northwestern Xinjiang region is home to a vast network of extrajudicial internment camps that have imprisoned at least one million people, which China has defended as vocational training centres to counter extremism. A report by Washington-based think tank the Center for...

A divided Congress finds common ground in fighting foreign corruption Scott Greytak, Opinion Contributor © The Hill A divided Congress finds common ground in fighting foreign corruption Is there anything Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill can agree on? Indeed there is - and its something big: the danger to U.S. national security posed by cross-border corruption. Proof of that consensus is visible in the text of this years must-pass defense bill, known as the National D...

Xinhua News Agency Authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have relocated more than 1,400 Uyghurs from an ancient desert village, citing destitution and “backwardness,” but experts say the move was made to assimilate torchbearers of traditional Uyghur culture and appropriate local resources. According to a Dec. 1 report by the official People’s Daily Online news outlet, authorities recently completed the resettlement of the population of Deraboyi (i...

AFP The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week that it will detain all shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a key paramilitary group in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)—citing forced labor abuses. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Trade issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) directing personnel at all U.S. ports of entry ...

The Trump administration's seemingly targeted order banning XPCC cotton has significant ramifications for the fashion industry.