Leading brands are scrambling to ensure their global supply chains do not go through Xinjiang — but it's harder than it sounds.
Uighur women work in a cloth factory in Hotan county, Xinjiang province, China. Credit: Azamat Imanaliev, Shutterstock
Last March, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a prominent think tank, released a report documenting the Chinese government’s effort to force the Uighur population and other ethnic minorities to work against their will in factories across the country. Separated from their families, confined to factory compounds and under round-the-clock surveillance, the predominantly Muslim workers were compelled, according to the report, to produce goods for dozens of international brands, suc
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