{"id":7137,"date":"2021-04-08T18:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2021-04-18T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:54:19","slug":"china-boycotts-western-companies-over-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2021\/04\/08\/china-boycotts-western-companies-over-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"China Boycotts Western Companies Over Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2021\/04\/08\/china-boycotts-western-companies-over-uyghurs\/china-eu-cotton\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7138\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/china-eu-cotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/china-eu-cotton.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/china-eu-cotton-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chinese government is boycotting Western clothing retailers for expressing concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang, China\u2019s biggest region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>China Boycotts Western Companies Over Uyghurs<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17258\/china-western-companies-uyghurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 8, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government is boycotting Western clothing retailers for expressing concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang, China\u2019s biggest region. The companies are being pressured to scrub from their websites language about corporate policies on human rights, reverse decisions to stop buying cotton produced in Xinjiang, and remove maps that depict Taiwan as an independent country.<\/p>\n<p>The escalating fight comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom on March 22 joined the United States and Canada to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17219\/china-free-speech-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impose<\/a> sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a remote autonomous region in northwestern China.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights experts say at least one million Muslims are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/news\/xinjiang-data-project-website-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detained<\/a> in up to 380 internment camps, where they are subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_hCoh2snUgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">torture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass rapes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/product\/coercive-labor-and-forced-displacement-in-xinjiangs-cross-regional-labor-transfer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced labor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zenz-Internment-Sterilizations-and-IUDs-UPDATED-July-21-Rev2.pdf?x26611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sterilizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Western companies doing business in China increasingly face an unpalatable dilemma: how to uphold Western values and distance themselves from human rights abuses without provoking retaliation from the Chinese government and losing access to one of the world\u2019s biggest and fastest-growing markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/17258\/china-western-companies-uyghurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government is boycotting Western clothing retailers for expressing concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang, China\u2019s biggest region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,7],"tags":[42,9,129,221,171],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-european-union-2","tag-forced-labor","tag-geopolitics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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