House Reps urge crack down on companies benefiting from Chinese forced labor

[ADevilYouKhow]

Two House members urged the State Department Wednesday to step up its diplomatic efforts to ensure companies that benefit from the forced labor of Uyghurs in China can't access global markets.
Why it matters: The U.S. has sought to crack down on companies believed to be complicit in the Chinese government's human rights abuses towards Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province.

• Now, the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party are calling for the U.S. to get allies on board as well.

The big picture: Last month, the European Council and European Parliament struck a provisional deal to ban products made with forced labor from being imported into the EU market.

• Yet the select committee has learned that certain EU members are considering voting against the ban, committee chair Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) wrote in a letterto Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday.
• Failing to pass the ban would mean products made by Chinese "state-sponsored forced labor programs will continue to have unfettered access to European markets."
• They will also have a higher likelihood of entering the U.S. via Europe, they added.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/17/house-state-department-uyghur-forced-labor

What do you guys think?

 

[Hood Critic]

Now do secret undocumented Mexican/South American labor.

 

[ORDER_66]

Now do secret undocumented Mexican/South American labor.

funny how that works...

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Now do secret undocumented Mexican/South American labor.

Really went both sides and hit enter


You’re a full blown clown

 

[Hood Critic]

Really went both sides and hit enter


You’re a full blown clown

If that's what you need me to be champ. The point is, it will help with the border and asylum issues that Dems are being forced to face head on.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

If that's what you need me to be champ. The point is, it will help with the border and asylum issues that Dems are being forced to face head on.

Are you really trying to conflate immigrants and a state sponsored gulag system?

 

[skylove4]

I want to hear the reason the committee chair and ranking member have for even thinking about voting against this ban