Posted on 03/11/2020 10:08:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. lawmakers pushed Wednesday for a ban on imports from a vast area of northwest China where the government has detained more than a million ethnic Uighurs after a report found widespread use of forced labor on farms and factories in the region.
The U.S. already bans imports of goods made with forced labor but the report by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found that the crackdown on the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region makes it impossible to ensure goods meet American standards.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang rejected the findings of the report and denied that the problem exists.
“The legitimate labor rights and interests of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are protected according to law, and there is no such thing as forced labor as claimed by someone with ulterior motives,” Geng told reporters.
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China doing to Muslims what Muslims would do to China.
Seems fitting to me.
For sure. China isn’t fooled. They’re playing for keeps.
China should kick the mooslimbs out into Pockystan. Good riddance.
Ask any "palestinian" if you can ever find one in a moment of clarity...
Got to replace all those Chinese workers who succumbed to the Wuhan virus at their work stations somehow...
Every Uighur that dies at a contaminated job site is one fewer they have to deal with later.
What happens to islamic moslems in China is extremely low on my worry list. I sure don’t wanna order America’s foreign policy around moslem well-being advocacy.
Agree 100%.
What happens to islamic moslems in China is extremely low on my worry list. I sure don’t wanna order America’s foreign policy around moslem well-being advocacy.
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I’ve found a kindred spirit.
Yessir! I can’t understand all the fulminating on this topic across the news for the last year
Another reason to stop doing business with China.
We must go to war in Uyghurstanistan right now!
We don’t have any Uyghur restaurants! That means we are culturally deprived!
And some of their women might be pretty and we need to ... um... liberate their resources!
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