US labor official calls on companies to exit China’s Xinjiang due to forced labor concerns

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At a US congressional hearing, Thea Lee, the Labour Department’s deputy undersecretary for international affairs, stated that Beijing has rendered it ’essentially illegal’ to carry out independent audits of human rights in Xinjiang read more International companies cannot responsibly operate in Xinjiang and should leave the western Chinese region due to forced labor concerns, a US Labor Department official said on Tuesday. The US government says Chinese officials continue to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, and rights groups have pressured Western companies there to audit their operations over forced labor concerns....