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A top customs official said Thursday that Washington is not seeking a total ban on cotton products from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) but sounding a warning to American firms to review their supply chains amid concerns of forced labor.
On Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) to detain all cotton products and tomatoes from the XUAR at the country’s ports of entry, saying that the agency had identified indicators of forced labor including debt bondage, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive living and working conditions.
Portland Quinnipiac student selected for Carnegie fellowship
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Quinnipiac University students Emily DiSalvo, left, and Jessica Simms, from Franklin, Mass., have been selected to participate in the prestigious Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative.Contributed photo / Quinnipiac University
HAMDEN Quinnipiac University senior student Emily DiSalvo of Portland have been selected to participate in the prestigious Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative.
Jessica Simms, from Franklin, Mass., was also accepted, according to the university.
The national News21 Initiative is part of an effort by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York to change the way journalism is taught in the U.S. and train a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry, according to a press release.
Chinese officials on Wednesday lambasted an initiative by Canada and Britain to ensure their companies are not complicit in Beijing’s human rights abuses against the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province, saying it amounts to a “gross interference” in the country’s internal affairs. The suite of seven new measures announced on…