{"id":1228205,"date":"2022-01-20T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228205"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:24:38","slug":"intel-lobbied-congress-on-china-slave-labor-bill-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intel-lobbied-congress-on-china-slave-labor-bill-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Lobbied Congress on China Slave Labor Bill, Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fintel-lobbied-congress-on-china-slave-labor-bill-olympic-games%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228205&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Computer giant apologized to China after swearing off supplies produced in Xinjiang<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1091107492-1400x932.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t(Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 January 20, 2022 5:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Intel is the latest Beijing Olympics sponsor revealed to have lobbied Congress on a bill that prohibits imports from China that rely on slave labor, according to records released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The computer chip maker <a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/d139b6fe-236c-44b3-a0e7-92092994ce1d\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid<\/a> $50,000 to the Washington, D.C., firm Kountoupes Denham Carr &amp; Reid to lobby Congress on issues related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and the Olympics. Intel joins fellow Olympics sponsor Coca-Cola in lobbying Congress on the Uyghur Act, which requires American companies to prove that goods procured from China&#8217;s Xinjiang province do not rely on the forced labor of Chinese Uyghurs. Coca-Cola reportedly tried to soften language in the bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law in December 2021 after months of stonewalling from congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Intel&#8217;s lobbying further complicates its position on China&#8217;s human rights abuses. Intel general counsel Steve Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/olympics-2022-usa-china-idCNL1N2P325E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Congress last July that he accepted the State Department&#8217;s assessment that China is waging genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. But Intel executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/24\/22852773\/intel-apology-china-xinjiang-labor-goods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized<\/a> to Chinese authorities last month for saying the company would not use supplies produced in Xinjiang. The company has also ignored calls to pull out of its Olympics sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has much at stake in China. It receives more than 25 percent of its revenue from the Chinese market and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-13\/white-house-spurns-intel-plan-to-boost-chip-production-in-china#:~:text=The%20Biden%20administration%20spurned%20a,people%20familiar%20with%20the%20deliberations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pursuing<\/a> a chip manufacturing factory in Chengdu.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear from the lobbying disclosure whether Intel supported the Uyghur bill or opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>But the lobbyist handling the Intel account also <a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/7dad0242-b690-4a5c-8b70-786bc79ef2ab\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">represents<\/a> Airbnb, another Olympic sponsor, which has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/democrats-airbnb-xinjiang-rentals-sanctions-93e860ac-9aae-4396-9457-ad34970e844a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congressional scrutiny<\/a> for listing rental properties on land owned by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The Chinese company has been sanctioned over its role in forcing Uyghurs to live in reeducation camps.<\/p>\n<p>Procter &amp; Gamble, another Olympic sponsor, has lobbied on Capitol Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2022\/01\/16\/olympics-sponsors-china-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to block a proposal<\/a> from Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) that would prohibit sponsors of the games from selling their products at American military installations.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz accused Intel, Procter &amp; Gamble, and other Olympics sponsors of putting profits ahead of national security interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s inexcusable companies like Intel and Procter &amp; Gamble are given such lucrative contracts from the Defense Department yet are beholden to the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; Waltz told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;U.S. companies have a responsibility to put our country&#8217;s national security and human rights ahead of Chinese economic interests and the CCP&#8217;s brutality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Intel was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/english\/investment\/27497.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an early investor<\/a> in iFlyTek, a Chinese company sponsoring the Olympics that has been sanctioned for helping the government surveil Uyghurs. The company used Intel processors to develop its speech recognition and other surveillance technologies. Intel published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BOAb3GMxU_0&amp;t=8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a promotional video<\/a> touting the technology in April 2019. The U.S. government sanctioned iFlyTek in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Intel and Kountoupes Denham Carr &amp; Reid did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Computer giant apologized to China after swearing off supplies produced in Xinjiang  (Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images)  Chuck Ross \u2022 January 20, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}