US blocks imports of Xinjiang ‘slave labour’ cotton

The United States will block imports of cotton it says are harvested with “slave labor” in China’s Xinjiang region, authorities have announced. Beijing has come under intense international criticism over its policies in the resource-rich territory, where rights groups say as many as one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in … Continue reading US blocks imports of Xinjiang ‘slave labour’ cotton