U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor
U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor
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U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Companies Over Ties to Forced Labor
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In the meantime there are prisons in the US whos sole purpose is slave labor for capitalists
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
With those additions, 68 companies now appear on the so-called entity list of firms that the U.S. government says participate in forced labor programs, nearly double the number at the beginning of the year.
But in more recent years, companies making solar panels, flooring, cars, electronics, seafood and other goods have discovered that they, too, use components that were made in Xinjiang.
The United States put the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into effect two years ago to ban imports made wholly or partly in Xinjiang.
The Chinese government runs programs in the region to transfer groups of local people to factories, fields and mines around Xinjiang and in other parts of China.
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, said in a statement that the department would continue to investigate companies that use forced labor and hold those entities responsible.
Last month, major automakers saw their products halted at U.S. ports after they were found to be importing a part made by a company tied to forced labor in Xinjiang.
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Great can we ban it in the US then?
As the old saying goes: "Change the worlds start with
yourselfChina"I agree, but can we try to focus on the topic at hand and discuss that?
It seems directly related to me. If the US government is fine with slave labour at home, then this decision is really only because the companies sanctioned are Chinese.
Forcing prisoners to repay a debt to society through labor, and forcing the minority you're actively genociding to produce goods feel like two very different things.
I strongly disagree with US prison labor, and our prison system's focus on punishment and repayment rather than actually correcting the behaviors, but it's legal by the US constitution.
The US DoL has an article on the situation with these laborers in China. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-situation-in-xinjiang
I don’t really care if it’s legal in the constitution, it’s “legal” in China too. My point is that I want it changed so there’s no forced labor in a country that that corporations can profit from it since it’s going to inherently drive conflicts of interest and I feel it too often gets ignored in this country.
Also with minorities being incarcerated at a much higher rate than white citizens. I find that just saying it’s paying back a debt to society fails to recognize the law isn’t being applied equally.
Also in many cases they’re already having to pay for their incarceration.
Why should the red line be at genocide?
The U.S. justice system is inherently racist and it utilizes forced labor. That should be enough.
They're not two different things. They both incentivize the government to subjugate people to enrich themselves and corporations.
This means many innocent people are enslaved or are enslaved for crimes that do not deserve enslavement. That's why the US has far and away the most prisoners of any country.