News / China denies new claims of forced labour in factories 'tainting' supply chains

10/03/2020

A new report claims the Chinese government is using forced labour at factories, “tainting” global supply chains.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Uyghurs for sale report alleges a “mass transfer” of ethic minority citizens from the north-west autonomous region of Xinjiang under conditions which “strongly suggest” forced labour.

“Uyghurs are working in factories in the supply chains of at least 83 well known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen,” claims ...

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Brad Fallon
March 11, 2020 at 2:00 pm
It is important to keep in mind that the last three paragraphs of this article are unsubstantiated claims by an authoritarian government that has been lying for years now about the detention of the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province.

First the Chinese government denied that they existed, until satellite imagery proved this untrue. Then they claimed that they were built to fight terrorism, yet there were facilities for up to 2-million prisoners. Then China claimed that they were re-education centres. Now we know that elements of this enterprise is a front for slave labour.

Anything Huawei states is simply a repeat of the Chinese government’s policy and cannot be trusted. China is not a state of Law and Order; Law and Order is a tool of the Chinese state.

ASPI has never receive direct funding from the US Military or any US Military Contractors. In 2019, ASPI was granted funding from NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence for an independent research paper analyzing popular social media platforms and their use by actors in the far east. This can be verified here: https://transparency.ag.gov.au/

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- Alex Lennane
  March 11, 2020 at 2:02 pm
  Great comment, Brad. Thank you.
  
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