US House votes to ban Xinjiang imports over forced labour


The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted to ban imports from China's Xinjiang region due to the use of forced Uighur labour. – EPA pic, September 23, 2020.

THE US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region, vowing to stop what lawmakers say is systematic forced labour by the Uighur community.

Despite opposition by US businesses, the act passed 406-3 in a sign of growing outrage over Xinjiang, where activists say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps.


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