The United States restricted imports from three more Chinese companies on Tuesday as part of an effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of Uyghur minorities from the U.S. supply chain.
The State Department later on Tuesday updated its business advisory on the Xingjiang supply chain to call attention to China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and the evidence of widespread use of forced labor there.”
Genuinely, yes. That’s the nature of having to publish a report before you can do all of your investigating. The State Department releases a report in roughly the middle of each year called “Report on International Religious Freedom”. I don’t know if there’s one for every country every year, but they definitely release one for a lot of countries, and they definitely release one for Xinjiang specifically every year. The reports on Xinjiang go from no mention of genocide in 2019, the possibility of genocide and an ongoing investigation in 2020 (the most recent one when the article you linked was written), and “it looks like genocide and we think that China’s political leadership is doing it intentionally” since then.
Did they change their minds about this?
Genuinely, yes. That’s the nature of having to publish a report before you can do all of your investigating. The State Department releases a report in roughly the middle of each year called “Report on International Religious Freedom”. I don’t know if there’s one for every country every year, but they definitely release one for a lot of countries, and they definitely release one for Xinjiang specifically every year. The reports on Xinjiang go from no mention of genocide in 2019, the possibility of genocide and an ongoing investigation in 2020 (the most recent one when the article you linked was written), and “it looks like genocide and we think that China’s political leadership is doing it intentionally” since then.
Good thing the UN told them to fuck off.
They didn’t call it genocide, but they’re pretty seriously critical of China’s actions in Xinjiang