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U.S. sportswear traced to factory in China’s internment camps

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This is something quite disturbing. Others may have more information about this claim. I would like to find out more about it.


Chinese men and women locked in a mass detention camp where authorities are “re-educating” ethnic minorities are sewing clothes that have been imported all year by a U.S. sportswear company. The camp, in Hotan, China, is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the internment camps; others are privately-owned, state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released....
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https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/17/us-sportswear-china-internment-camps/
 
Looking into this it appears at least one of the US companies in the AP Report, Badger Sportswear out of North Carolina, has suspended orders from Hetian Taida Apparel (one of the Chinese companies using internment camps as product labor.)

It may be painful, if not impossible, to determine which US companies all use these Chinese companies and if they all knew about it all along.

But this does not look good, at all.

More here...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12...-factory-in-chinese-internment-camps/10632160
 
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