Xinjiang and Cotton The Trump administration announced restrictions on imports suspected of being made using forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region. Goods subject to sanctions include cotton and clothes; Xinjiang accounts for the vast majority of the country’s cotton production. China stands accused of human-rights abuses, such as interning an estimated 1m ethnic Uighurs in gulags, which it calls “re-education centres”.
Issue #19
Issue #19
Issue #19
Xinjiang and Cotton The Trump administration announced restrictions on imports suspected of being made using forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region. Goods subject to sanctions include cotton and clothes; Xinjiang accounts for the vast majority of the country’s cotton production. China stands accused of human-rights abuses, such as interning an estimated 1m ethnic Uighurs in gulags, which it calls “re-education centres”.