Volkswagen to continue operations in China’s Xinjiang, says CEO: Report


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The German carmaker, which has a joint venture with China’s biggest automaker SAIC Motor, has since 2013 run a plant in Urumqi, the capital of the western region where Western nations and rights groups say ethnic Uyghurs face torture and detention. Volkswagen plans to continue operations at its plant in China’s Xinjiang region despite reports of human rights violations there, the chief executive said in comments published by the Handelsblatt newspaper on Monday. The German carmaker, which has a joint venture with China’s biggest automaker SAIC Motor, has since 2013 run a plant in Urumqi, the capital of the western...