Washington’s ‘forced labour’ puts an enormous burden on Chinese companies to prove their supply chains are free from rights abuses in Xinjiang. But trade experts question their ability to meet the ‘very high requirements’.
China has the power to take countermeasures against Washington’s ‘arbitrary’ forced labour law, including imposing its own trade bans and suing the US at the World Trade Organization, experts say.
San Francisco and other cities across the U.S. have become the last line of defense against efforts by China to erase the memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Germany is even more dependent on Beijing than it is on Moscow. Following the revelations of the Xinjiang Police Files, politicians and executives are facing a difficult question: What crimes are they willing to tolerate in exchange for prosperity?
Germany s dependency on China is becoming increasingly problematic. The Xinjiang Police Files, which document more clearly than ever the human rights violations taking place in far-western China, show that German politicians and executives must act.