{"id":1746,"date":"2020-03-10T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2020-03-10T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:19:41","slug":"american-companies-must-stop-sourcing-from-chinese-forced-labor-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"American companies must stop sourcing from Chinese forced labor camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The posters on the wall alongside the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co. factory \u2014 the side where the Uighur workers enter and exit, and live in dorms \u2014 feature Communist Party propaganda extolling \u201cChina dream\u201d and \u201cUphold national spirit to unite and make all of China strong.\u201d Another says: \u201cAll ethnicities are united as one family.\u201d (Anna Fifield\/The Washington Post)<\/h5>\n
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The March 1 news article \u201cIn China, Uighurs brought to toil in factories supplying American brands<\/a>\u201d named Nike, an American brand, based on a larger report by the\u00a0Australian Strategic Policy Institute<\/a>, \u201cUyghurs For Sale<\/a>.\u201d As an American citizen, I am deeply troubled that we continue to come across American companies shamelessly profiting from the forced labor of Uighur and other persecuted communities in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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As a Uighur American, it affects me personally. My family has been trying to track down our relatives for the past three years. We can name 93 relatives with whom we have lost contact. We do not know how many are alive or dead. It hurts me deeply to think that Nike shoes might have been made by my own relatives, forced to work in one of these factories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We must continue to expose these corporations, and the corporations must stop sourcing from forced labor camps. Let China know we are aware and will be taking action. Uighurs will be thankful \u2014 those here in the United States and those free of being modern-day slaves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aydin Anwar<\/b>,\u00a0Fairfax<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source:https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/american-companies-must-stop-sourcing-from-chinese-forced-labor-camps\/2020\/03\/09\/b9cf096a-5fb7-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The posters on the wall alongside the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co. factory \u2014 the side where the Uighur workers enter and exit, and live in dorms \u2014 feature Communist Party propaganda extolling \u201cChina dream\u201d and \u201cUphold national spirit to unite and make all of China strong.\u201d Another says: \u201cAll ethnicities are united as one family.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-uyghur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}