Monday, November 30, 2020

Corporate America: China's Ghetto Police.

I loathe all of these people and their overcompensated gutless pitchmen--most especially the Chamber of Commerce, which is happy to pretend How Much It Cares.

Burn, baby, burn:

[T]he legislation, called the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, has become the target of multinational companies including Apple whose supply chains touch the far western Xinjiang region, as well as of business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Lobbyists have fought to water down some of its provisions, arguing that while they strongly condemn forced labor and current atrocities in Xinjiang, the act’s ambitious requirements could wreak havoc on supply chains that are deeply embedded in China.

Xinjiang produces vast amounts of raw materials like cotton, coal, sugar, tomatoes and polysilicon, and supplies workers for China’s apparel and footwear factories. Human rights groups and news reports have linked many multinational companies to suppliers there, including tying Coca-Cola to sugar sourced from Xinjiang, and documenting Uighur workers in a factory in Qingdao that makes Nike shoes…

[F]or many companies, fully investigating and eliminating any potential ties to forced labor there has been difficult, given the opacity of Chinese supply chains and the limited access of auditors to a region where the Chinese government tightly restricts people’s movements.

They "strongly condemn" atrocities--but actually doing something? Nah. 

Keep this in mind when you read their diversity statements, deep concern for black lives and gaudy advertisements for Pride Month. 

They don't mean a word of it, and would kick it to the curb if it hurt the bottom line.

 

 

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