{"id":10494,"date":"2019-10-27T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/27\/its-time-to-boycott-any-company-doing-business-in-xinjiang"},"modified":"2019-10-27T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:30:03","slug":"its-time-to-boycott-any-company-doing-business-in-xinjiang-michael-caster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10494","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to boycott any company doing business in Xinjiang | Michael Caster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced labour in China\u2019s internment camps taints the supply chains of many western companies. We need to take action<\/p>\n<p>Any western company doing business in Xinjiang should consider their supply chains tainted by forced labour drawn from internment camps. Hardly a drop in the ocean of the vast global economy, this involves companies such as Ikea, H&amp;M, Volkswagen and Siemens.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-issues-detention-orders-against-companies-suspected-using-forced\">banned<\/a> the import of products made by a firm in Xinjiang over its use of forced labour. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/08\/us-blacklists-28-chinese-companies-and-government-agencies-over-uighur-repression\">blacklisted 28 Chinese entities<\/a> for their role in the repression of Uighurs and issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/11\/more-than-20-ambassadors-condemn-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-in-xinjiang\">visa restrictions<\/a> on key Chinese officials. Following suit, two major Australian companies have now also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-10-17\/target-cotton-on-drop-suppliers-after-four-corners-investigation\/11607518?pfmredir=sm\">announced<\/a> they are ending partnership with their cotton supplier in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/27\/its-time-to-boycott-any-company-doing-business-in-xinjiang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced labour in China\u2019s internment camps taints the supply chains of many western companies. We need to take actionAny western company doing business in Xinjiang should consider their supply chains tainted by forced labour drawn from internment camps&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,437,558,335,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-retail-industry","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}