WSJ News Exclusive | Auditors Say They No Longer Will Inspect Labor Conditions at Xinjiang Factories

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Western companies have turned to auditing firms to vet the labor conditions of suppliers in China’s Xinjiang region. Now some auditors refuse to work there.

HONG KONG—At least five organizations say they won’t help companies audit their supply chains in China’s Xinjiang region, where human-rights activists say a police-state atmosphere and government controls make it too difficult to determine whether factories and farms are relying on forced labor.

China’s increasingly repressive tactics in the northwestern region, where large numbers of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in internment camps, have prompted campaigns from human-rights groups. Western...

 

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tomso1314 Forced labour camps must not exist anymore.

So it is the best for businesses to avoid suspicious suppliers from China, or simply move your supply chain out of China as forced labour is not confined in Xinjiang anyway.

中国还有美国不想挑事的地方吗?美国最开心的就是世界打乱,然后他就开开心心的卖他的军火。 毕竟是个核武器大国,如果这些核武器自己原地爆炸了美国还会存在吗?

Hate is a purely human feeling. It doesn't exist anywhere in the wild. A lion kills a Zebra because it wants to eat, not because it's been pissing it off with its ass stripes.

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