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China attacks foreign clothing brands including Nike, H&M for comments on Xinjiang human rights abuses
China’s ruling Communist Party is lashing out at H&M, Nike and other clothing and footwear brands as it retaliates for Western sanctions over human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
Key points:
- The Communist Party’s Youth League called attention to a H&M statement from March 2020
- The brand used similar words to others when it said it was deeply concerned about reports of forced labour
- More than a million people in Xinjiang, most of them from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, have been confined to work camps
The attacks began when the party’s Youth League called attention on social media to a H&M statement in March 2020 which said that it would stop buying cotton from Xinjiang in China’s north-west.
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