China Increases Pressure on H&M After Vow to Avoid Slave Cotton
1 Apr 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) renewed its sharp-power attack on Swedish apparel firm H&M on Wednesday after the clothier restated its vow to avoid using cotton harvested by Uyghur Muslim slaves in Xinjiang province. The CCP launched a sudden blitzkrieg of social media criticism and boycott threats last week against foreign companies that have spoken out against forced labor in Xinjiang or pledged not to buy products made by China’s Uyghur slaves, especially cotton. China is a major supplier of cotton to the worldwide apparel industry and Xinjiang provides 84 percent of China...