Editor's Note: In Katrina Northrop’s June 27 cover story, “Hemmed In,” she profiled Marjorie Yang and her company, Esquel Group, a Hong Kong-based textile giant that was placed on the U.S. government's trade restriction 'Entity List' for its links to forced labor in China’s western Xinjiang region. (Esquel is now seeking to be removed from the list.) In response to Northrop’s article, William H. Overholt, a senior research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, wrote a letter to the editor, looking back at his experience meeting Yang and visiting her factories. In the letter, he took issue with the U.S. decision to sanction Esquel, arguing that the company was “the world’s most socially responsible company.” Overholt also appeared on a recent Sinica podcast to discuss the issue. Now, Georgetown University Professor James Millward, an authority on China and Xinjiang, has written his own letter to the editor to further examine this important topic.
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