How Congress can compel global divestment from China’s forced labor


Source: thehill.com thehill.com

Key Topics in this News Article:

News Snapshot:

When Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, the world’s attention finally focused on China’s alarming human rights abuses. Since 2017, more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have disappeared into a vast network of re-education camps in the far west region of Xinjiang, China. It’s part of what the U.S. State Department has labeled “genocide.” Beijing remains undeterred by U.S. criticism, however, and continues to press many thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups into slave labor. In December 2021, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) to strengthen laws banning forced-labor products from entering...