From Dyspeptic Mutterings:
What do Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Microsoft, Apple, BMW and Samsung have in common?
Use of Uighur slave labor in their factories.
But they put up the correct hashtags in February and June, so that makes it all better.
Uighurs’ placement in factories outside Xinjiang has been conducted under a central government policy known as “Xinjiang Aid.” Factory bosses receive cash compensations for each Uighur worker they employ. Some companies have even advertised their ability to supply Uighur workers through online bookings. One such ad, claiming to be able to supply 1,000 Uighur workers aged 16 to 18 years, read: “The advantages of Xinjiang workers are: semi-military style management, can withstand hardship, no loss of personnel … Minimum order 100 workers!”
Although state media are claiming Uighurs are being compensated for their work, the ASPI researchers found they live in segregated dormitories, are unable to go home, and they undergo Mandarin and ideological training outside working hours, similarly to Uighurs in the internment camps.
In one case, a batch of “graduates” from a so-called vocational training center in south Xinjiang were transferred directly to a factory in the eastern Anhui province, according to a government report. The factory, Haoyuanpeng Clothing Manufacturing Co. Ltd, lists Fila, Adidas, Puma and Nike among its clients. Xinjiang workers have also been placed in factories that are part of Apple’s supply chains, including a plant in Guangzhou visited by Apple CEO Tim Cook in December 2017.
Go here to comment. Being lectured to on the rights of minorities in the US by the same woke capitalists who profit from slave labor in China is akin to hearing Hitler in 1938 complaining about the treatment of the Sudeten Deutsch in Czechoslovakia.
The key to modern hi-tech capitalism is slavery. Wall Street loves it. The Bergoglian Catholic Church goes along with it. God cannot be pleased.
What’s disconcerting about China’s behavior is that their minorities are modest in size (less than 10% of the population), tend to live in remote areas of the country with a dearth of natural resources, and have not in living memory had a history of violence against the core population. They’re treated horribly anyway. When you have a political class for which cruelty is the default mode, beware.
John Derbyshire used to participate in listservs with Chinese intellectuals. Per Derbyshire, the modal opinion among them is that Chinese rule over Turkestan and Tibet must continue and that over Taiwan must be established. He was savaged by other participants when he suggested China didn’t need the territories. One challenges him about Puerto Rico; he said the man was poleaxed when he told him that the vast majority of Americans had no emotional investment in Puerto Rico at all.
Derbyshire also had a story about how he had been invited to participate in a confab with a visiting official delegation from China in September 2001. The confab was abruptly cancelled and the delegation sent home after an incident. The delegation was being hosted at some some locale where FBI agents were on the premises and the agents discovered the delegation in a lounge with a television set on 11 September, cheering as the towers fell.
Heh, been awhile since I listened to Derbyshire. He had informative insights on China.
Was going to post this on Dale’s site but I wonder. Schindler also had a despised minority working in his factory. But for them, the work was protection and salvation. Had these companies any morals and courage, this work would likewise be an opportunity to save the lives and culture of the Uighur.
Is that what they’re doing? After all they can hardly brag about it in PR releases less the CCP learn and shut down the factories, undoing the effort. Unfortunately these companies have do so much to burn their social credit and proved themselves to only be brave on the cheap, I find such an idea more likely to be fiction, than real until I see proof.
The shift to relocate manufacturing facilities Post-Covid to Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Mexico and Brazil is a shining light. Poor working conditions in Chinese factories, increase in production prices by greedy Chinese factory owners and the world suddenly waking up and realising that Chinese factories produce poor quality crap is not good news for the Chinese government. And now human rights abuse of Uighur, which they deny deny deny.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/princeghosh/2020/09/18/the-exodus-of-chinese-manufacturing-shutting-down-the-worlds-factory/amp/