Category: forced labor

‘Lose Your Mind or Your Life’: Chinese Believer Was Told During 9 Years in Jail

Gong Ruiping tried to find out where she was and what had happened to her, but all memories faded after a guard grabbed her hair and repeatedly banged her head against the wall. “I later found out that my knees were bleeding and my face was swollen,” Gong said later in a statement. It happened…


NBA Players Benefit From Chinese Firms Complicit in ‘Slave Labor’: US Lawmakers

Several U.S. lawmakers are urging National Basketball Association (NBA) players to end endorsement deals with Chinese sportswear firms that are linked to forced labor, according to reports. “Americans can’t and shouldn’t conduct business with companies and players that profit through human slavery,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) told Politico. “And that includes NBA players—they can’t sign…


US Senate Passes Bill to Ban All Xinjiang Goods Over CCP’s Rights Abuses

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill on July 14 that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods…


US Senate Passes Bill To Ban All Xinjiang Goods Over CCP’s Rights Abuse

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods manufactured…


Discovering China Without Communist Influence?

The Biden administration has imposed trade bans on five Chinese firms over concerns of forced labor in Xinjiang. Some of them manufacture silicon, used in solar panel production. China’s space program appears to serve military purposes first and civilian needs second. A U.S. expert says that China could use its space program to cripple the…


US Blocks Solar Components From Chinese Company in Crackdown on Forced Labor in Xinjiang

The United States has banned imports of a key material to make solar panels from a Chinese company as part of a wider effort to protect U.S. supply chains from forced labor inflicted on ethnic Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, the White House announced on June 24. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued…


Lawmakers Call on Apple to Drop Suppliers Implicated in Forced Labor in Xinjiang

The chairmen of a top U.S. congressional body on June 8 urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to divest itself from Chinese suppliers implicated in forced labor involving Uyghur Muslims. The call came after recent investigations found that several Apple suppliers had ties to suspected forced labor of Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang….


Green Energy Is a Waste of Human Life, Freedom, and the Environment

Commentary The Democratic Party are going back to their old ways. Democrats were the party of slavery before they were against it. Now they’re the party of slavery again. They also support child labor. In the Democrats’ inane obsession to control the weather 80 years from now, to fight the totally non-existential threat that is…


NBA Stars Urged to End Endorsement Deals With Chinese Firms Complicit in Forced Labor

The chairs of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Tuesday urged the president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) to end endorsement deals with Chinese sportswear firms linked to forced labor. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) in a letter expressed concern over contracts that more than a dozen NBA…


US Seafood Ban of Chinese Company Over Forced Labor Is Not Enough

Commentary The United States on May 28 banned seafood imports from Dalian Ocean Fishing Company in China, due to evidence of the utilization of forced labor. The evidence includes four dead Indonesian fishermen on Dalian ships and secretly recorded video of their coffins being thrown overboard. Other footage that indicates forced labor at sea includes…