{"id":320374,"date":"2021-03-26T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=320374"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:30:47","slug":"chinese-government-erasing-western-retailers-online-stores-locations-for-voicing-human-rights-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-government-erasing-western-retailers-online-stores-locations-for-voicing-human-rights-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers\u2019 Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fchinese-government-erasing-western-retailers-online-stores-locations-for-voicing-human-rights-concerns%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=320374&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3823.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>China is cracking down on Western retailers for expressing concern over reports that slave labor is being used to gather cotton from the country\u2019s Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>Clothing brands and retailers such as H&amp;M and Nike are claiming that they are being targeted by the Chinese government online. Beijing, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has wiped shop locations from online maps and apps and deplatformed the retailers\u2019 web stores, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-56533560\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clothing industry blackout in China began on Wednesday with the Swedish retailer H&amp;M. Chinese state-run media outlets and government agents online resurfaced a comment made by the retailer last year expressing concern over the labor used to produce Xinjiang-sourced cotton. The statement has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/hmgroup.com\/content\/dam\/hmgroup\/groupsite\/documents\/masterlanguage\/CSR\/Policies\/2020\/Xinjiang%20Statement.pdf\">removed<\/a> from H&amp;M\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer said that it was \u201cdeeply concerned by reports from civil society organizations and media that include accusations of forced labor and discrimination of ethno-religious minorities\u201d in Xinjiang and had stopped sourcing cotton from the region, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/business\/handm-boycott-china-uyghurs.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nike posted its own <a href=\"https:\/\/purpose.nike.com\/statement-on-xinjiang\">statement<\/a> voicing concern about the reports of forced labor inside Xinjiang. The clothing and sportswear brand said it does not source products from Xinjiang and is auditing its supply line to ensure that forced labor is not used in its supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media and other Communist organizations have called for boycotts of brands that have signed on to the Better Cotton Initiative, which advocates to make cotton production \u201cbetter for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in and better for the sector\u2019s future.\u201d Members of the initiative include Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Burberry, Puma, and Tommy Hilfiger, according to BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government is running so-called reeducation camps in Xinjiang thought to hold at least one million Uyghurs from the region. The Uyghurs are an ethnic minority in China that identifies culturally more with central Asia than the Han Chinese which dominate China.<\/p>\n<p>The facilities housing the Uyghurs are, in reality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/creeping-genocide-china-is-forcing-abortions-and-birth-control-on-thousands-of-minorities\">concentration camps<\/a> where Uyghurs are manipulated, tortured, and sterilized. On Jan. 19, then President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-trump-admin-declares-china-committing-genocide-prompts-state-department-reviews-potential-sanctions\">Donald Trump<\/a> designated China a human rights abuser and then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that Beijing was attempting \u201cgenocide\u201d against the Xinjiang Uyghurs and other minorities in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Western governments have grown colder toward China in recent months, following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread largely due to the Chinese government\u2019s refusal to share key information about the disease until it was too late. On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/us-and-allies-impose-sanctions-on-officials-in-china-over-human-rights-offenses-in-xinjiang\">United States<\/a>, United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union, announced joint sanctions against Chinese officials over the treatment of Xinjiang\u2019s Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid growing international condemnation, the [People\u2019s Republic of China] continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. \u201cThe United States reiterates its calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is cracking down on Western retailers for expressing concern over reports that slave labor is being used to gather cotton from the country\u2019s Xinjiang region.Clothing brands and retailers such &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311225,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3823.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers\u2019 Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3823.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers\u2019 Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320374","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=320374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}