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As shipments of Chinese cars are stopped by US customs and EU officials continue their inquiry into electric vehicle subsidies, the likelihood of further import controls creeps closer to certainty, analysts said.
Volkswagen is drawing up plans to pull out of China’s troubled Xinjiang region after the German car maker was accused of benefiting from human rights abuses there.
A veteran believed to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the infamous Burma Death Railway has died aged 104.
There are concerns car manufacturers have links to forced labour practices in China's Xinjiang region. A Human Rights Watch report warns of a link between the forced labour transfers of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the region, and aluminium production, a key material for car manufacturing.
Human Rights Watch says the industry could be using metals tainted by forced labour, which is linked to the exploitation of ethnic Muslims